North American QSO Party, RTTY - July
Call: K6UFO
Operator(s): K6UFO ND2T K6TD W0YK
Station: K6MTU
Class: M/2 LP
QTH: California
Operating Time (hrs): 12
Remote Operation
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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80: 57 22
40: 239 51
20: 302 53
15: 155 41
10: 15 12
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Total: 768 179 Total Score = 137,472
Club: Northern California Contest Club
Team:
Comments:
Four operators remote to the mighty K6MTU station on Mt. Umunhum above Los
Gatos, CA.
We wanted to improve on our top tier operation in the February NAQP RTTY.
Technical genius
Kevin K6TD had everything working (antennas, filters, radios, ...) AND had made
several improvements - including automatic antenna selection on changing bands.
Of
particular note, we ran two stations on the same top tribander with no
interference at all!
We recruited great RTTY operator Ed W0YK, for his first attempt with remote
operating and
Flex radios. It looked bad in the week leading up to the contest, as Ed suffered
through learning
to operate Flex, and had a balky internet connection (from living in the
mountains) that crashed the
software too often as it lost the connection. Kevin K6TD and Ed W0YK tried
several configurations,
until one was found that seemed reliable enough for operating, until Ed's
wireless internet problems
can be addressed. Ed W0YK was able to operate, and added a valuable operator to
our team, holding
forth for many hours on 20m, and finishing up on 80m. We are pleased to bring Ed
into the next
frontier of remote operating!
Tom ND2T and Mark K6UFO managed the planning, answering questions, and keeping
the Team
on target with schedules, preflight testing and practice sessions - so that we
were indeed ready to go
on Saturday morning. During the contest we had clear plans, knew where to be,
and what to do. A
couple minor problems like a radio crash/restart and temporary stuck rotator
control were easily
overcome.
Our "problem" was poor propagation conditions, which prevented us from
making the high rates we
wanted, and our operators would have been glad to handle. We started on 15m and
20m but could not
get the rates we wanted. Two short trips to 10m brought enough Multipliers to
make it worth the switch.
As 15m faded and hours to go before 40m would open, we struggled to keep the
rate up. Finally 40m
was rocking, and the 20m station could flip over to 80m to finish the contest.
We spent most of the
contest far down the online scoreboard - but nobody gave up, and we inched our
way up, until we
finished in a solid 2nd place.
We had fun chatting on Slack, everyone had time to operate, and off-time to
relax. The equipment all
worked well, and we finished in the top tier. See you next time!
Mark K6UFO
Tom ND2T
Kevin K6TD
Ed W0YK
Two Flex 6700 with SmartSDR and DAX
JK Mid-Tri (3 el on 20m, 4 el on 15m) at 95 feet high
High power bandpass filters and combiner (i.e. Triplexer)
JK 4 el 40m yagi at 110 feet
80m 4-square array
Softether VPN, Writelog logging and networked log
MMTTY and 2Tone decoders
Raet sheet: (use fixed width font)
QSO/MUL by hour and band
Hour 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm
D1-1800Z - - 48/30 33/16 1/1 82/47 82/47
D1-1900Z - - 22/3 37/15 7/4 66/22 148/69
D1-2000Z - - 41/5 34/7 7/7 82/19 230/88
D1-2100Z - - 28/2 42/3 - 70/5 300/93
D1-2200Z - 4/2 32/4 9/0 - 45/6 345/99
D1-2300Z - 15/7 42/2 - - 57/9 402/108
D2-0000Z --+-- 13/6 29/3 --+-- --+-- 42/9 444/117
D2-0100Z - 32/11 34/2 - - 66/13 510/130
D2-0200Z - 35/12 26/2 - - 61/14 571/144
D2-0300Z 21/12 61/6 - - - 82/18 653/162
D2-0400Z 24/8 44/4 - - - 68/12 721/174
D2-0500Z 12/2 35/3 - - - 47/5 768/179
Total: 57/22 239/51 302/53 155/41 15/12
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