CQ Worldwide DX Contest, RTTY
Call: K6LL
Operator(s): K6LL
Station: K6LL
Class: SO(A)AB HP
QTH: AZ
Operating Time (hrs): 27
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs State/Prov DX Zones
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80: 152 47 9 10
40: 513 55 56 29
20: 609 53 74 27
15: 32 11 16 11
10:
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Total: 1306 166 155 77 Total Score = 882,366
Club: Arizona Outlaws Contest Club
Comments:
Band conditions were not good. I couldn't run Eu on any band, and Eu S&P
was limited pretty much to the larger stations. There were not many JA's, but
there were a surprising number of YB's, mostly inexperienced operators who were
not in the call history.
I didn't put in too many hours, taking a six hour break the first night, an 8
hour break the second night, a two hour nap on Saturday afternoon, and all of
Sunday afternoon off (including another 2 hour nap), after a big thunderstorm
associated with Hurricane Rosa came through.
Three hours before the contest on Friday, I decided to scrap my FSK keying
method (MORTTY and TinyFSK) and go back to my old PCIe serial ports.
Fortunately I had saved the old N1MM config file, and the switch was relatively
painless. I found that the TinyFSK method was generating multiple line feeds at
the end of each message, eating up valuable time. I have a fetish about keeping
RTTY messages short, especially since most other people seem to enjoy making
theirs long. I enjoy being contrarian.
After all is said and done, it was all fun. Thanks for all the QSO's!
The antennas are a shorty 40 and tribander on a 48 foot tower. That setup was
installed 40 years ago, and remains essentially unchanged.
Dave Hachadorian, K6LL
Yuma, Arizona
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