ARRL RTTY Roundup
Call: W6YX
Operator(s): K6UFO N7MH KZ2V
Station: W6YX
Class: M/S HP
QTH: CA
Operating Time (hrs): 24
Summary:
Band QSOs
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80: 74
40: 354
20: 472
15: 233
10: 306
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Total: 1439 State/Prov = 57 Countries = 61 Total Score = 169,802
Club: Northern California Contest Club
Comments:
W6YX was the "Big Bear" for the three callsign operation from Stanford
University.
We had three great dedicated operators: N7MH, K6UFO and KZ2V. We had
software and equipment that we were familiar with, and full legal limit
power on RTTY. We had our own local spotting station, run by N7MH when
he wasn't on our W6YX station, and he put up with everyone's interference
while finding Mults for us to work. We often had first choice of antennas
because we usually went to the next lower band ahead of the other
stations. We started on 15m, and then went to 20m, didn't get to 10m
until the third hour, by which time the other guys wanted to leave it!
We were down to 40m by 01z, and spent five hours on 7031, with only a few
quick jumps away to get Mults.
On the other hand, we sometimes had inter-station interference that
reduced our ability to hear weak stations, and sometimes were stuck out
on a "less productive" band. I think a good SO2R operator could beat our
individual single-radio scores. But it is clear that our three scores
added together are a great contribution to the NCCC Club score!
Thank you to Dean N6DE who loaned us his new Alpha 9500 so we could
operate full power on RTTY. We carefully ran between 1,000 to 1,499 watts,
so that when switching antennas we wouldn't spike over the limit. A very
nice amp, and the high power allowed us to keep long runs going on some
"prime" frequencies. The amp kicked off-line a couple times, and we had
to clear a fault indicator before it would restart. One time, we managed
to find and work 4 Mults at 100 watts while waiting for the countdown
timer to activate the amp again.
Conditions were good, but not great. Contacts were 80 percent from USA,
followed by Canada and Japan. We "Worked All States" including DC, due
to great spotting work by N7MH. Sixty DX countries were welcome additions,
but not a big change over previous years. Glad to work lots of new RTTY
operators.
In 2010 we made ZERO contacts on 10m, but this year 10m was open. We
were even called by VP8NO!
15m and 20m had fair numbers of people. Not as much DX as we hoped. In
2010 we worked over 700 people on 20m, this year only 470. Sunday morning
provided a dozen new European countries for Mults.
40m provided some good runs at night, with rates above 100/hr from time
to time. N7MH worked seven new mults from Northern Europe at 09z - a
surprise from 40m!
80m was used for only two hours, but provided 74 QSOs and one new
Mult - so good enough!
Thanks for all the contacts, see you in WPX-RTTY on Feb 11 and
NAQP-RTTY on Feb 25.
...for the W6YX team, K6UFO Mork!
W6YX Stanford University equipment:
10m: 6 el yagi at 70 ft, 5-el 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 at 60 ft, inverted vee at 50 ft
80m: inverted vee at 50 ft
Beverage receiving antennas
Yaesu FT-1000MP
Alpha 9500 amp
Writelog and MMTTY software
QSO/Mults by hour and band
Hour 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm Off
D1-1800Z - - 27/8 56/27 - 83/35 83/35
D1-1900Z - - 58/13 - - 58/13 141/48
D1-2000Z - - 1/0 - 67/10 68/10 209/58
D1-2100Z - - - 24/10 27/0 51/10 260/68
D1-2200Z - - - 75/4 - 75/4 335/72
D1-2300Z - - - 50/3 - 50/3 385/75
D2-0000Z --+-- 5/4 --+-- 28/2 --+-- 33/6 418/81
D2-0100Z - 65/4 - - - 65/4 483/85
D2-0200Z - 76/1 - - - 76/1 559/86
D2-0300Z - 62/2 - - - 62/2 621/88
D2-0400Z - 47/0 - - - 47/0 668/88
D2-0500Z - 44/1 - - - 44/1 712/89
D2-0600Z 26/0 23/0 - - - 49/0 761/89
D2-0700Z 45/1 - - - - 45/1 806/90
D2-0800Z 3/0 17/3 --+-- --+-- --+-- 20/3 826/93
D2-0900Z - 15/4 - - - 15/4 841/97 34
D2-1000Z - - - - - 0/0 841/97 60
D2-1100Z - - - - - 0/0 841/97 60
D2-1200Z - - - - - 0/0 841/97 60
D2-1300Z - - - - - 0/0 841/97 60
D2-1400Z - - - - - 0/0 841/97 60
D2-1500Z - - 24/14 - - 24/14 865/111 28
D2-1600Z --+-- --+-- 20/1 --+-- 27/1 47/2 912/113
D2-1700Z - - - - 91/1 91/1 1003/114
D2-1800Z - - - - 74/0 74/0 1077/114
D2-1900Z - - 43/0 - 20/0 63/0 1140/114
D2-2000Z - - 82/0 - - 82/0 1222/114
D2-2100Z - - 80/3 - - 80/3 1302/117
D2-2200Z - - 63/1 - - 63/1 1365/118
D2-2300Z - - 74/0 - - 74/0 1439/118
Total: 74/1 354/19 472/40 233/46 306/12
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