ARRL RTTY Roundup
Call: W6YX
Operator(s): K6TJ N7MH
Station: W6YX
Class: M/S HP
QTH: Stanford
Operating Time (hrs): 24
Summary:
Band QSOs
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80: 154
40: 406
20: 645
15: 164
10: 0
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Total: 1369 State/Prov = 57 Countries = 59 Total Score = 158,804
Club: Northern California Contest Club
Comments:
This was one of 3 M/S operations from the W6YX station that also included K6SU
and N6DB. Dean, N6DE, organized the overall effort. John, W6LD, and Pete, K6TJ,
got motivated and repaired antennas and equipment that hadn't been working.
John, Pete and I fixed our two Beverage antennas and added a third Beverage for
JA/South America.
For the W6YX effort we used a single K3 with the K3S upgrades and sub-receiver
driving an Alpha 9500 amp.
We had varying degrees of interference between high-power stations on the same
band. We had two stations on 40 and 20 for much of the time we were on those
bands and we even had 3 stations on 20 for a brief period. We tried two
transmitters on 80 and 15 but not for long as the interference was too great.
Same-band interference was minimal in certain directions, most notably when
beaming the US on 40 and 20. We occasionally rotated to other beam headings to
pick up mults but aggregate rates were higher when we didn't have to deal with
broken copy caused by our own transmitters. Our total claimed score for the 3
operations is higher than our previous three 3-transmitter attempts (2012, 2013
and 2016).
One unusual occurrence in the contest was when Windows popped up a message
asking if I really wanted to accept a change of 59 years in the computer clock.
Somehow, just over an hour into the contest, the computer had reverted the clock
to January 4, 1959 (without asking) and then 12 minutes later wanted to correct
it. That's when I noticed that there were about 20 QSOs logged in 1959. I
planned to correct them at the end of the contest but had to deal with it
earlier because our Time On/Off was not showing because of the clock issue.
This is the first time I've tried using Writelog's SO2V implementation. It works
very similarly to one-computer SO2R and I found that it worked with AFSK and the
K3S USB Audio Codec. In the past I've cloned receive windows to monitor the
sub-RX but SO2V is a bit more intuitive and easy to use for someone familiar
with SO2R.
Pete operated for several hours in the early morning and caught on quickly to
both running and click-and-pounce. We look forward to K6TJ appearing in our
operator lists for future contests.
73,
-Mike, N7MH
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