FT Roundup - 2021
Call: K6UFO
Operator(s): K6UFO ND2T K6TD W0YK
Station: K6MTU
Class: Multi-Op LP
QTH: CA
Operating Time (hrs): 24
Remote Operation
Summary:
Band QSOs
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80: 61
40: 303
20: 248
15: 61
10: 0
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Total: 673 State/Prov = 50 Countries = 45 Total Score = 63,935
Club: Northern California Contest Club
Comments:
This was a Multi-operator, Single-transmitter operation with four ops
all remote from the fabulous mountaintop station on Mount Umunhum
maintained by Kevin K6TD. We had one op and radio for running, and a second
op and radio standing by looking for Mults on other bands, and planning when
to change bands. Radios shared one tribander through a triplexer, and
the Tribander and 40m yagi had to point the same direction (same mast). No
special in-band or octopus setups. Operators coordinated on Slack.
The K6MTU station is excellent, we could work deep Asia and far away Europe
with only 100 watts. Kevin K6TD had the station in tip-top shape, no problems.
Very few software issues, as everyone had tested their setups during
the week and Friday night before the contest. DigiRite did crash and have to
be restarted several times.
20m carried the load all day, 40m all night and early morning.
Brief periods on 15m brought fresh QSOs and good Mults. 80m had QSOs,
but no new Mults. Rate was generally 20 to 30 per hour. Mostly FT8, but
FT4 when the strong signals would support it without too many retries.
Sunday afternoon we finally had to venture onto the "regular" FT8
segments
and spend twice as long to make a QSO by sending both our contest report and
the grid and SNR they wanted. QSOs were 74% from North America and 14% Asia.
Everywhere else was greatly appreciated for the Mults. We took three hours
off after midnight, and finished early without the last three hours, for our
6 hours of off-time.
Multi-single is limited to 6 band changes per hour, while the Single-ops
have no limit and can do SO2R. We did better than last year, and made more
QSOs but less Mults than leader DR4W who we chased on the online scoreboard.
A fun event, with challenging technical, operating and strategy challenges.
Mark K6UFO
for K6TD, ND2T, W0YK and K6UFO
Two Flex 6700 and SmartSDR software
Writelog and Digirite software
JK Mid-Tri (3 el on 20m, 4 el on 15m) at 95 feet high
JK 4 el 40m yagi at 110 feet
80m 4-square array
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QSOs by hour and band.
80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm OffTime
D1-1800Z - - 32 - - 32 32
D1-1900Z - - 16 10 - 26 58
D1-2000Z - - 29 4 - 33 91
D1-2100Z - - 7 13 - 20 111
D1-2200Z - - 27 - - 27 138
D1-2300Z - - 28 1 - 29 167
D2-0000Z ---+- 55 1 ---+- ---+- 56 223
D2-0100Z - 33 - - - 33 256
D2-0200Z - 32 - - - 32 288
D2-0300Z - 29 - - - 29 317
D2-0400Z 26 5 - - - 31 348
D2-0500Z 20 9 - - - 29 377
D2-0600Z 9 10 - - - 19 396
D2-0700Z 5 23 - - - 28 424
D2-0800Z 1 24 ---+- ---+- ---+- 25 449
D2-0900Z - 21 - - - 21 470
D2-1000Z - 25 - - - 25 495
D2-1100Z - 5 - - - 5 500 51
D2-1200Z - - - - - 0 500 60
D2-1300Z - - - - - 0 500 60
D2-1400Z - 20 - - - 20 520 9
D2-1500Z - 12 18 - - 30 550
D2-1600Z ---+- ---+- 24 1 ---+- 25 575
D2-1700Z - - 23 2 - 25 600
D2-1800Z - - 5 19 - 24 624
D2-1900Z - - 20 7 - 27 651
D2-2000Z - - 18 4 - 22 673
Total: 61 303 248 61 0
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