North American QSO Party, RTTY
Call: WF3C
Operator(s): WF3C
Station: W4MLB
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: FL
Operating Time (hrs): 9
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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80: 80 32
40: 125 44
20: 165 33
15: 28 10
10: 2 1
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Total: 400 120 Total Score = 48,000
Club: Florida Contest Group
Team: Florida Boys
Comments:
If the contest ended either earlier or later, it would be easier for me to do a
full-time effort, but facing an hour-plus drive back at midnight (with offtime
and resetting the station from contesting to general operating) was just too
much. I hit a round number shortly before 11:00, and was on the way back home
at 11:30.
No real equipment problems in this one, so I'll have to pin the sub-par rates
and score on the operator. I did have a problem with the audio from the rig
getting to the modem properly, and by the time I switched rigs to fix the
problem I'd taken 25 minutes. I figured I'd take a few more to reach the full
30 minutes.
SO1R in this contest is a killer. I felt like I was missing a lot of stations
on other bands even when I was running at a decent rate. If I get ambitious
next time, I may try to move the second (identical) station at W4MLB down the
bench and use both rigs. The only other antenna is a 30m/80m inverted vee, but
at the bottom of the cycle that would be better than nothing.
A number of three-band contacts, no four-band contacts that I can think of (I
heard W6YX on 80m, but they couldn't hear me). The only two five-banders were
local teammates that I moved to 10m before 11PM when their operating time ran
out.
Station:
TS-850 w/dual 500Hz filters
Moseley Pro67B @ 60'
30m/80m Inv-Vee @ 58'
AF4Z Multi-Modem
Writelog 10.53 on an old Windows 98 machine
73,
Chris WF3C/4
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