North American QSO Party, RTTY - February
Call: WQ6X
Operator(s): WQ6X
Station: NX6T
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: Fallbrook, Ca.
Operating Time (hrs): 9
Remote Operation
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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80: 71 21
40: 99 33
20: 118 35
15: 112 28
10: 0 0
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Total: 400 117 Total Score = 46,800
Club: Southern California Contest Club
Team: SCCC
Comments:
This is another WQ6X remote operation from NX6T.
Things went smoothly until the internet router in Fallbrook
became intermittently flaky.
10 meters was non-existent with 20 & 15 being a toss-up for best band.
Outside of one VK5 station on 20 (who called me off the back of the C-31
yagi),
there were no QSOs outside of U.S. and Canada; no Central/South America, no EU
and no JA - HuH?
I liked the creative use of names such as:
BIGFRANK, HILLTOP, DOYLE,CJ & JERZY (who was in NY).
For the 1st couple of hours I ran the K3 at 4 watts into an ACOM 2000a dialed
back to 99 watts. When the remote control of the amp failed I upped the K3
power to 62 watts barefoot. On 80 meters I initially forgot to up the power so
the 1st 9 QSOs (mostly to the Midwest) were made running 4 watts - OOOOPS.
Because this was a remote operation I chose to run frequencies 99% of the time.
Stations would call me OFF FREQUENCY and then get mad when I told them to tune
me in rather than using RIT (which is not possible to do using the RCForb
software to run the K3). So instead of getting MAD at me or calling me LAZY
(as one station did), the REAL solution is to BE ON FREQUENCY WHEN YOU CALL ME
- HELLO!....... (What part about being on frequency before making a radio
transmission do you NOT understand?)
As I was running on 3575.75 at 04:30z I got preempted by the RN6 CW traffic net
so I setup camp on 3592.92. Unfortunately, stations seemed to have trouble
finding me after that so I finished off the contest on 40.
Ron
WQ6X
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