CQ Worldwide DX Contest, RTTY
Call: N2QT
Operator(s): N2QT
Station: N2QT
Class: SOAB QRP
QTH: VA
Operating Time (hrs): 33
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs State/Prov DX Zones
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80: 123 33 13 9
40: 274 44 48 13
20: 317 31 76 23
15: 276 13 73 19
10: 37 2 13 8
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Total: 1027 123 223 72 Total Score = 959,310
Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club
Comments:
I'd had a blast operating QRP assisted last year and figured I'd try it
unassisted this year. I had been pleased during my testing to see that I would
be spotted by RTTYSkimmers in both the US and Europe while running 5 watts and
with some improvements in sunspot numbers I figured it would be a good time to
try for the US QRP record. I set a goal of 900K and was hoping for 1M.
However the loss of an open 10M was not nearly made up for by staying up late
for 40/80M. It also didn't help to have a power outage of a couple hours on
Saturday afternoon, which meant I lost time (and didn't take a nap not knowing
when/if power would return). Since you can't really run using QRP (or at least
I can't) there is a lot of tuning the band for new contacts. Running two radios
S&P turned out to be really tiring and I ended the contest fried, much more
than the modest operating time would indicate.
I left the third radio on 10M and would watch the bandscope to see when things
seemed to be happening. I set the rig on NR4M's frequency and would see if he
was working anyone interesting enough to have me check the band.
With 65% more time, I ended up with 24% more Q's but was down 7.7% on mults and
5.4% pts/q, showing I worked more US stations with the reduced conditions and
the lack of spotting assistance. I worried about the low mult count and
probably hurt my score sitting in pileups I couldn't break.
Radios Two Elecraft K3 and a KX3
KT34A at 60 ft,
3 el Steppir at 48 ft
40M rotary dipole at 54 ft
shunt fed tower on 80 M
All qso's uploaded to LOTW, and hope yours are too!
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