North American QSO Party, RTTY - February
Call: W6YX
Operator(s): K6UFO ND2T N6DB N7MH W6NEV KZ2V W6RK
Station: W6YX
Class: M/2 LP
QTH: CA
Operating Time (hrs): 12
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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80: 154 43
40: 326 53
20: 281 54
15: 364 51
10: 216 38
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Total: 1341 239 Total Score = 320,499
Club: Northern California Contest Club
Team:
Comments:
February is very good to us. We set the current M/2 record in
February 2011 of 1333 QSOs x 224 Mults for a score of 298,592 points.
In February 2012 we came close with 1150 x 251 for 288,650.
This February our 1341 x 239 for 320,499 (before checking) would be a
new record - EXCEPT look at the tough competition with more QSOs!
KU5B at 1459 x 221 = 322,439
NU2F at 1403 x 225 = 315,675
NR5M at 1475 x 209 = 308,275
I won't even mention the great scores posted by M/2s at WW4LL, N0NI
and K6LRG! Up until Feb 2012 we had been the only station to exceed
1,000 QSOs. Then last year, five stations did it. And now, we've got
two or three more! Increasing RTTY participation, and the interest
of the "big" M/2 stations has made this a tough competition.
I scrambled around getting the W6YX station ready, including changing
out one computer that would just not behave, updating software on five
computers, installing and testing FSK interfaces, setting up the
logging software, messages and screen layouts. I think I got it about
90% right, with just a few changes needed on-the-fly on Saturday.
We had our usual team of great operators. ND2T and K6UFO made a
super-fast start, with two hours of rate over 150! N6DB and
N7MH came in and provided local spotting to scoop up more new
multipliers and new stations. We had our usual debate about when to
go to 20m, since our 20m QSO count is less than the surrounding 15m
and 40m, but its hard to leave 10m when it is open! We had to go to
40m at what seemed awfully early 00Z, but the rate didn't suffer, and
we had four more hours of rate over 100! During the afternoon and
evening, our much needed relief team of fresh-operators were W6NEV,
KZ2V and W6RK. The operators are fantastic, maybe we could use better
radio filtering and another panadapter. I'm too tired to worry about
it yet.
Thank you to all the participating stations who make our high QSO
counts possible!
for W6YX, de K6UFO..
W6YX Stanford University equipment:
C-31xr Tribander
Mosely Pro-57 Tribander
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: two inverted vees at 50 ft
Beverage receiving antennas
Yaesu FT-1000MP, Yaesu FT-1000MP MkVs, Elecraft K3 and panadapter.
Writelog and MMTTY software.
Microham, Rascal and W3YY FSK interfaces.
QSO/MUL by hour and band
Hour 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm
1800Z - - - 97/33 80/22 177/55 177/55
1900Z - - - 88/8 66/8 154/16 331/71
2000Z - - 21/17 60/6 18/3 99/26 430/97
2100Z - - - 40/1 52/5 92/6 522/103
2200Z - - 76/23 51/3 - 127/26 649/129
2300Z - - 62/6 28/0 - 90/6 739/135
0000Z --+-- 43/27 66/5 --+-- --+-- 109/32 848/167
0100Z - 70/15 40/2 - - 110/17 958/184
0200Z 16/6 72/6 16/1 - - 104/13 1062/197
0300Z 46/23 67/3 - - - 113/26 1175/223
0400Z 38/8 49/1 - - - 87/9 1262/232
0500Z 54/6 25/1 - - - 79/7 1341/239
Total:154/43 326/53 281/54 364/51 216/38
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