ARRL January VHF Contest
Call: K1TO
Operator(s): K1TO
Station: K1TO
Class: Single Op HP
QTH: EL87
Operating Time (hrs):
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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6: 68 40
2:
222:
432:
903:
1.2:
2.3:
3.4:
5.7:
10G:
24G:
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Total: 68 40 Total Score = 2,720
Club: Florida Contest Group
Comments:
Conventional wisdom is that FT8 has taken over the world, but here is my QSO
breakdown: FT8-23 MSK144-37 CW-4 SSB-4
It was one year ago during this event that I tried digital, specifically MSK144,
for the first time ever on any mode or band. Thanks to K1JT for opening up a
whole new world for so many of us.
The highlights were working W8VYM on his dipole in EM82 up in GA (after nearly
10,000 QSOs on 6M in the last 5 years, I had never even heard EM82) and the
Saturday evening MSK144 activity that allowed K1TOL and K1SIX among a dozen
out-of-staters to be worked. Fascinating to me how the range for scatter QSOs
seems to exactly match the range for one-hop Es.
Unlike those to the north, there are essentially zero rovers to work down here
(sorry I missed Sandra and Steve altogether) when there is no Es.
I took the ALL.TXT file out of WSJT-X and crunched it in Excel. Between the two
digital modes and after eliminating a small bit of junk data, 211 different
calls in 93 grids were decoded. Reality is that some of those were one-time
only decodes and a QSO was not possible. On the transmit side, I called 96
different stations, so working 60 of them is a much better conversion rate than
I perceived it would be. The weakest signals decoded were -24 in FT8 and -8 in
MSK144.
IC-7300, Commander, 6M7JHV @ 55'
Hoping to improve the antenna array and feedline situation in the coming months.
Hoping for a terrific June Es month!
vy 73, Dan
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