CQ WPX RTTY Contest - 2020
Call: NR6O
Operator(s): N6RO K6AW N6WM NA6O WD6T WX5S
Station: N6RO
Class: M/U HP
QTH: Oakley, CA
Operating Time (hrs): 48
Radios: SO2R
Remote Operation
Summary:
Band QSOs
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80: 393
40: 926
20: 968
15: 297
10: 0
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Total: 2584 Prefixes = 713 Total Score = 4,501,169
Club: Northern California Contest Club
Comments:
The grand experiment. How to make a multi work with tight schedules. We were
down 1 radio going in, thank goodness I had an extra SD card to resurrect a
failed Flex 6600M in time.
A combination M/M with remote operators, on site operators, and mixed remote and
onsite operations. Using operating positions not normally used for certain
things.. etc. etc. basically with varying levels of success.
Kickoff and first night were rough going for the team, seems one of our
positions does not behave well with low band RFI (a new discovery) as well as
team training and communication challenges switching from remote to onsite, this
cost us some precious time on 40 and 80 the first night, but the Friday night
shift powered through, and although numbers were a bit down Matt (onsite) and
Dave (remote) with Ken managed to keep the light going.
Saturday Day went much smoother, with Station veteran Steve K6AW remoting in to
a K3 position assuming the 15m captains chair from the luxury of his home.
Steve did is usual professional Job of draining the band of any qso he could
get. Conditions marginal. 20M saturday was covered on site by N6WM, also OK
but not great conditions and limited EU qso's.
Saturday Night shift was much smoother, with Station Tech NA6O onsite (80M and
discovered the 80 RFI issue, 80 provided no propagation to W6 other than CR6DX
but did manage to log some JA and DU), as well as WD6T on site draining 40m(Gary
was particularly excited with a pre sundown opening to EU and good Asia pac
prop) Station was hit with EXTREMELY high winds on Saturday night that carried
into all day Sunday causing arcing and interactions between 40m stack and all
other bands...
Sunday Day was handled much the same as Saturday, with N6WM at the station
starting 20/15 SO2R then passing 15 to K6AW who powered through sunday fun and
doldrums on 15. Conditions were better on both bands Sunday, with a good prefix
run of EU on 20, and real runs on 15..
We also have various antenna azimuth problems that are currently limiting and
annoying.. we need to replace a couple of rotors. XE2K should be expecting a
call soon.
Overall the entire OP team did a great job, overcoming adversity, trying new BIC
filling techniques, and being the good point generators that this team produces
from our challenging north W6 qth.
Operating Conditions:
STN 1 Flex 6600-M - Power Genius XL - VPN/remote rig/remote desktop
STN 4 K3, AL1200 - remote rig/K30/remote desktop
STN 6 Flex 6600-M - Power Genius XL - N6WM drove all of this locally.
5 X 5 X 5 @140 on 15
5 X 5 X 5 @140 on 20
4 X 4 @140 on 40
4sq/2L quads on 80m
On behalf of the entire Radio Oakley team, a toast and thank you for all the
QSO's.
73 from team RO and Seeya next time
Chris
N6WM
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