North American QSO Party, RTTY - February
Call: NK7U
Operator(s): NK7U, K7ZO
Station: NK7U
Class: M/2 LP
QTH: Oregon
Operating Time (hrs): 12
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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80: 158 44
40: 260 50
20: 289 50
15: 225 42
10: 0 0
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Total: 932 186 Total Score = 173,352
Club: Willamette Valley DX Club
Team:
Comments:
That was fun. Our first ever full NAQP RTTY.
Jumped off to an amazing start with a 170+ first hour. We figured we would blow
through 1,000 QSO's. But then each hour got less and less until we hit a low of
40 QSO's in the 22:00 hour. Things got better from there and we exceeded 100
again in the 03:00 hour before the inevitable decline the last two hours.
Relative to CW and SSB versions it didn't seem like as many stations were on
the air though those that were were active - we had many 3 and 4 banders.
For us 15M was great at the start and stayed open for several hours. From there
down though the bands seemed noisy with both QRN and QRM. It seemed like every
QSO was a struggle. Each mult on 80M was a major accomplishment.
This is our third RTTY contest this year at NK7U -- we are starting to get the
hang of it. Now time to start optimizing our setup for it. We will be back.
Scott/K7ZO
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