North American QSO Party, SSB
Call: W6YX
Operator(s): K6UFO N6DE N7MH W6RK
Station: W6YX
Class: M/2 LP
QTH: CA
Operating Time (hrs): 12.
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 31 8
80: 61 22
40: 268 49
20: 420 57
15: 117 33
10: 14 3
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Total: 911 172 Total Score = 156,692
Club: Northern California Contest Club
Team:
Comments:
Ouch, that was painful. Over 200 QSOs less than last year. As expected,
10m and 15m died out early, leaving us on 20m and 40m early in the day,
about 5 hrs before sunset here on the west coast. We called and called
stations for hours on 20m, 40m, and 80m, who would just CQ in our face.
We would try a CQ frequency with few answers - then someone would be
take the frequency without even hearing us, then they would proceed to
work a run of stations...
Our rate was only over 100 in two hour periods 01Z and 03Z. Congrats
to the NX5M M/2 who were operating on a different planet than us -
their rate was only BELOW 100 in two hour periods.
If there were any highlights for us, it would be N7MH finding 15m open
again at 0220Z. Stations were over S9 from many parts of the country.
We stayed there for almost an hour and got 10 more mults. On 10m,
outside of the friendly locals in California, we managed to work K0UK
in Colorado (backscatter, not direct), and TG9NX when he turned his
beam to the west coast. We heard 10m beacons from FL in the 02Z hour,
but we couldn't find any FL stations on 10m, or to move there.
QSO/MUL by hour and band
Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm
D1-1800Z - - - 47/25 44/15 6/1 97/41 97/41
D1-1900Z - - - 40/13 27/4 - 67/17 164/58
D1-2000Z - - - 9/0 9/4 2/1 20/5 184/63
D1-2100Z - - 2/2 19/2 4/0 5/1 30/5 214/68
D1-2200Z - - 23/11 27/6 - 1/0 51/17 265/85
D1-2300Z - - 16/5 77/4 - - 93/9 358/94
D2-0000Z --+-- --+-- 17/7 64/4 --+-- --+-- 81/11 439/105
D2-0100Z - - 34/9 67/1 - - 101/10 540/115
D2-0200Z - - 38/6 33/1 21/10 - 92/17 632/132
D2-0300Z - 8/6 79/7 13/0 12/0 - 112/13 744/145
D2-0400Z - 27/11 36/0 24/1 - - 87/12 831/157
D2-0500Z 31/8 26/5 23/2 - - - 80/15 911/172
Total: 31/8 61/22 268/49 420/57 117/33 14/3
Equipment:
Transmitting stations: Yaesu FT-1000MP & MkV
Spotting: Yaesu FT-847
Antennas:
Multibander: Mosley Pro67 at 50 ft (for spotting station).
Tribander: Force12 C31XR at 60 ft
10m: 5-el at 31 ft, 6-el at 75 ft
15m: 6-el at 75 ft, 5-el at 25 ft
20m: 6-el at 65 ft, 5-el at 36 ft.
40m: 4-el yagi at 65 ft, and inverted vee at 55 ft.
80m: 4-square with bad SWR (something's wrong), inverted vee at 55 ft
160m: T antenna, 60ft at top.
Software:
Writelog 10.47E - and for the first time we had a few glitches, maybe
caused by our hurried setup on Sat. morning.
Posted using 3830 Score Submittal Forms at: http://www.hornucopia.com/3830score/
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