California QSO Party - 2022
Call: AE6Y
Operator(s): AE6Y
Station: AE6Y
Class: SO HP
QTH: SCLA
Operating Time (hrs): 21
OpMode: SO2R
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs
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160: 28 11
80: 101 28
40: 339 68
20: 369 172
15: 247 105
10: 132 86
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Total: 1216 470 Mults = 57 Total Score = 261,516
Club: Mother Lode DX/Contest Club
Comments:
Great conditions, but not for me. This is the worst score I've had in many
years, and it's due to a new noise source that I just heard a few days ago.
Some kind of impulse (switcher?) noise on ALL bands! I almost gave up, but
instead ran the whole contest with the noise blankers on in my K3 and IC-7600.
That certainly helped, but also caused some distortion and increased intermod.
There were many stations that called that I just couldn't pull out of the noise,
though they had decent signals. For comparison, my average rates in 2021 were
95/hr on phone and 90 on CW; this year they were 80 on each mode.
I got spoiled last year when VY1CO called in the very first hour, and I made a
sweep in 4 hours. This year at the end of four hours I had 51 mults, and never
did hear an NT station. Oh well, them's the breaks of contesting!
My apologies to all the stations who concluded (rightfully) that I was an
alligator for not being able to pull out their signals.
73, andy ae6y
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