CQ WPX RTTY Contest - 2019
Call: K7HKR
Operator(s): K7HKR
Station: K7HKR
Class: SOSB/40 LP
Class Overlay: Rookie
QTH: AZ
Operating Time (hrs): 12
Summary:
Band QSOs
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80:
40: 91
20:
15:
10:
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Total: 91 Prefixes = 81 Total Score = 20,493
Club:
Comments:
6-foot diameter magnetic loop (80,40,20)
2el short-beam 15m Yagi
Up to about 80 watts, IC-7300, from AZ, all S&P
SB/40, but also 25 QSOs on 80, 26 on 40, and 22 on 15; total time was about 22
hours
Not only was this my first RTTY contest, it was my first time using RTTY. I had
only decided to do this a few days before the contest, and in messing with
fldigi and wanting to do FSK, I pretty much gave up. Also, I was at work during
the main practice opportunities leading up to the contest. But, early Saturday
morning, I decided to try using my SignaLink setup that I use for FT8 and that
turned out to work fine for AFSK.
My main goal was not to be a lid, so of course I screwed up on my first QSO and
had to come back later and work him for real. Sorry! After that, it went
pretty smoothly. I accidentally sent my call again a few times instead of the
exchange, but it wasn't too hard to get the hang of it. I started out at around
40 watts while making sure my signal was clean, but ended up at around 80 watts
most of the time.
I could only operate into mid-morning, but I was on early enough to catch a
couple JA stations. I can work JA pretty well on FT8 pre-sunrise, so it was
nice to see that with RTTY.
I was back after 01UT on Saturday evening and worked almost straight through to
20UT Sunday afternoon. I was successful enough on 40 to decide to submit a
single-band entry even though I put effort into other bands. During the day, I
split my time between 20 and 15. I didn't really work much DX. Ignoring HI,
NA, and the Caribbean, my DX was: 12 JA on 40/20, Maderia Is. on 40 and 80,
Brazil twice on 15 (I heard many more), and miraculously two EU stations on 20.
I heard a couple VK/ZL stations on 40, but couldn't work them.
My score may be off by a little because I did the 40m calculations myself. I
decided to throw in the ROOKIE overlay for the heck of it; I do still qualify
under the rules for a few more months and I truly was a "rookie" on
RTTY. I will be back!
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