North American QSO Party, RTTY - July
Call: W1DYJ
Operator(s): W1DYJ
Station: W1DYJ
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: EMA
Operating Time (hrs): 8
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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80: 40 21
40: 46 24
20: 77 36
15: 30 16
10: 13 10
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Total: 206 107 Total Score = 22,042
Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Team:
Comments:
NAQP RTTY has become one of my favorite contests, one where I
can feel "competitive" with my modest station, unassisted.
This one was FUN, and was the personal best of the six years
I have now participated.
Other than my usual goal of a personal best, I decided to see
how well 10 & 15 would do with increasing SF. Rotating between
10>15>20, etc., I ended up with "bests" on all three.
At 9:20 local I hit 80 for the first time -- fresh meat! But my
dipole didn't load -- bummer -- so the MFJ949E got turned on. And,
after a few transmissions all was well. Wonder what the RF fixed,
as I can see nothing visible. By 10:40 local I had a "best" on 80
and stopped for the 11 pm news.
I always watch contestonlinescore.com. I noticed Randy started
late and went ROARING past me: how does he do that??? But I also
noticed he stopped around the time I stopped for the news. SO...
after the news I finally hit 40. By then most every Q was worth
>250 points as they were new mults. Beating Randy might be
possible -- even though he didn't know I was chasing him. AND
at 12:12 I finally surpassed his score. I gave up at 1:15, after
deciding I wasn't going to reach a "best" on 40. Four out of five
is not bad.
SOME STATISTICS
Best state: CA with 17 Qs / 12 calls (17 / 12)
Where was New England?
ME - 0 / 0
NH - 1 / 1
VT - 0 / 0
MA - 4 / 4
RI - 3 / 1
CT - 0 / 0
I had one 5-bander, four 4-banders, and eight 3-banders.
Rig: TS-590SG at 80W
Log: WinFldigi 4.1.20 >> N3FJP's NAQP contest Log v5.3.2
"Official" 30 min time = 8:03 hrs. Actual BIC time = 7:02 hrs.
Mostly S&P looking for mults, some running to meet Q goals.
Antennas:
80/40: Fan dipole: trapped 80/40m @ 35' with ends at 25'
20: HB Moxon @ 36'
15: Rotatable Dipole @ 33'
10: HB 5el yagi @ 30'
73 -- Larry -- W1DYJ
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