CQ Worldwide VHF Contest - 2022
Call: K2DRH
Operator(s): K2DRH
Station: K2DRH
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: EN41vr
Operating Time (hrs):
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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6: 304 134
2: 119 66
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Total: 423 200 Total Score = 108,400
Club: Society of Midwest Contesters
Comments:
That was painful for a lot of reasons. I tried climbing to fix my 6M 2x11 array
(tests indicate a bad connector up the tower) a few days before and only made it
about 40 feet before my leg left nerves screamed out from the sciatica caused by
my accident last year. It’s been much better walking and I’d thought it was
OK, but climbing apparently aggravates it. Quickly and a lot! The closest
connector at the rotor loop is at 80 feet. 6M Prop was terrible on Saturday and
even worse Sunday. I was encouraged to hear 6M open on light Es to W1 right at
the start. But it ebbed and flowed back and forth just enough for me to keep
trying SO2VFO during the first hours, but with just no depth at all. Sadly
those would be the best rates of the contest.
And though there was no indication of good 2M prop from Hepburn or APRS,
apparently the first two hours while I was flailing on 6 were the best hours for
2M of the contest though there was practically no analog activity on my
bandscope. I stated concentrating on 2M FT8 in the third hour but I was already
behind the 8 ball. Comparing notes with AC0RA about 60 miles to my west later
that day showed that he had been running away with it by doing FT8 on 2M and
also running 6M on the opposite sequence (with 2 rigs and a TX lockout) right
from the start. I was hoping with a little hot 6M prop with my 8x7 array I might
be able to catch up. Never happened. Ms was much better this year.
Now with WSJT dominating contests with poor prop I obviously need to up my game
so I have separate 6 and 2M rigs for WSJT rather than just separate slices on a
single Flex 6700 that really can’t effectively alternate TX sequences and
still hear well. That and a high power 2M bandpass filter to keep out the hash
from the 6m TX. Not sure what I’m gonna do about the 2M mast mount preamp and
RF overload protection for the GAsFETS from adjacent 6M high power TX on the
same tower (I just switch it out and relay isolation protects it when I TX on 6M
now). It’s a brave new world!
73 de Bob
Contest: CQWWVHF
Band Mode QSOs Pts Grd Pt/Q
50 FT8 158 158 73 1.0
50 MSK1 16 16 11 1.0
50 USB 130 130 50 1.0
144 FT8 80 160 44 2.0
144 MSK1 16 32 14 2.0
144 USB 23 46 8 2.0
Total Both 423 542 200 1.3
Score: 108,400
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