World Wide Digi DX Contest - 2023
Call: W4BBT
Operator(s): W4BBT
Station: W4BBT
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: NC
Operating Time (hrs): 14:54
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160:
80: 26 9
40: 50 14
20: 184 29
15: 40 18
10: 5 5
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Total: 305 75 Total Score = 42,075
Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club
Comments:
This was my first FT4/FT8 contest and I worked hard with the help of fellow PVRC
member Eric NR4O to get the software ready. I was pumped up to go at 8:00 pm
Friday night with thoughts of doing the whole 24 hrs. BUT, Friday night I
realized that I was wrong about the time and would have to wait until Saturday
morning at 8:00am which meant no full 24 hours since I had to quit around
11:00pm for church the next morning.
Started on FT8 20m and got six 6 point stations in the FIRST MINUTE, 2-BY1 (my
first China contacts ever), 2-VK3 and 2-YB1. Thinking, boy this is going to be
GOOD, not to mention I had an instant lead on fellow PVRC contester and friend
Eric NR4O on the online scoreboard. The next time I checked the scoreboard,
Eric NR4O had sailed right past me and I never caught up. Great job Eric!
I finally moved to FT4 after 3.5 hours into the contest and managed to make 153
of 305 Qs. Maybe should have moved sooner, but with that great start on FT8, I
didn't want to get off that horse.
I did notice that multiple times when making a contact, the other party would
send 73 but the Q never went to the log. Not sure what caused this. I did a
lot of calling because when I did S&P, a lot would not answer me but came to
me when I called.
I did use the "Call 1st" option when calling but this was a problem
when stations responding did not have a Grid Square, not to mention getting
locals instead of DX stations. I would recommend not using this option. The
rules say to enter ZZ00 as the grid square when this happens but I was never
able to enter anything in the grid pop-up window, consequently no contact in the
log. On numerous occasions making a call, the software would get hung on the
second message and never completed the connection. Again, no contact in the log
and more time wasted.
Even with these minor problems, I had a great time and thanks to fellow club
members Eric NR4O and Steve NC4SW for their Qs.
73,
Don-W4BBT
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