DRCG WW RTTY Contest - 2019
Call: N6ERD
Operator(s): N6ERD
Station: NX6T
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: SDG
Operating Time (hrs): 22
Summary:
Band QSOs Countries Call Areas
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80: 3 1 2
40: 85 10 19
20: 148 2251 23
15: 2 1 1
10: 0 0 0
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Total: 238 35 46 Total Score = 405,567
Club: San Diego Contest Club
Comments:
Compromised 80M antenna so ran lower power but with condx I'm not sure it really
mattered. Period 1 was OK and where most of my 20M contacts came from even
though the contest started at 5PM local time. I was able to work quite a few
JAs on 20M during that time.
The second period I could have slept through - a slow moving CME picked that
time to hit and the K increased up to 5 - the last 45 mins I called CQ and only
made one scratchy contact with an N9 station. I'm curious how many decided to
throw in the towel at that point (I was sleep deprived so I did take a 1 hour
nap hoping things would improve during that time).
Finally I got up at 1AM local for the last leg and while 20M may have suffered,
40M seemed to be pretty decent - worked quite a few JA's even though the ideal
time for them is Friday night (not getting up for work the next day) but got
8/10 call areas.
Interestingly I worked only one VK the entire contest, since I believe this
started life as the old ANARTS contest run out of VK. I often pointed more
south to try to snag more but none were to be had.
I haven't worked this since 2013 and that was on the east coast, so it's a
completely different strategy here. Not having much on 80M hurt as well, but I
have ideas of how to do better next time.
I had fun in spite of the middle period condx.
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