North American QSO Party, CW - August
Call: W6YX
Operator(s): K6UFO NF1R K6SF KZ2V K6XM AA6XV
Station: W6YX
Class: M/2 LP
QTH: CA
Operating Time (hrs): 12
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 7 3
80: 96 41
40: 254 55
20: 528 62
15: 366 57
10: 9 5
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Total: 1260 223 Total Score = 280,980
Club: Northern California Contest Club
Team:
Comments:
In previous years we've had trouble getting operators for the Aug NAQP CW. It's
summer, and we put more effort into RTTY two weeks earlier. For the NAQP club
challenge I wanted to get W6YX on with as many operators as possible. We've
been trying N1MM logger this year, and NF1R and KG6NUB stepped-up to do the
pre-contest setup. A few last minute fixes Saturday morning, so one station
started five minutes late. Everything lasted through the contest, though our
message setup was not optimal, and we had to restart one computer to keep it
connected.
10m was very disappointing. Four CA, two KH6, AL, NY, ON. Even with a
bandscope watching the band.
As usual for an NAQP, 15m was fantastic until late afternoon when propagation
goes far west and JA's dominate. Then we switch bands and suffer on 40m for
about two hours until sunset and great 40m runs begin.
As usual for an NAQP, 20m was fantastic until we have to leave it to get in
some 80m time.
80m and 160m were OK for the summer and the short times spent there.
Overall, rates were good, though we could be more efficient with the software.
We were pleased to have Greg K6XM join us for a first time - we just threw him
into the fray. AA6XV stopped over from the UHF contest and made one QSO to help
the NCCC participation. So we count six NCCC operators, Mission Accomplished!
W6YX Stanford University :
Tribanders: Force 12 C-31XR at 60ft
10m: 6 el yagi at 70 ft, 5 el yagi at 30 ft
15m: 6 el yagi at 70 ft, 5 el yagi at 25 ft
20m: 6 el yagi at 60 ft, 5 el yagi at 36 ft
40m: 4 el yagi at 60 ft, inverted vee at 50 ft
80m: inverted vees at 50 ft
160m: C antenna off side of tower
Beverage receiving antennas
Yaesu FT-1000MP, MkV, Elecraft K3 and Panadapter
N1MM software
Rate by Hour and Band
Hour 1_8 3_5 7 14 21 28 Total Cumm
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18 0 0 0 43 91 6 140 140
19 0 0 0 61 74 0 135 275
20 0 0 0 71 54 0 125 400
21 0 0 0 64 56 3 123 523
22 0 0 0 59 38 0 97 620
23 0 0 7 51 18 0 76 696
0 0 0 2 60 35 0 97 793
1 0 0 46 53 0 0 99 892
2 0 0 58 47 0 0 105 997
3 0 10 57 19 0 0 86 1083
4 0 43 39 0 0 0 82 1165
5 7 43 45 0 0 0 95 1260
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All 7 96 254 528 366 9 1260
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