ARRL January VHF Contest
Call: K9FA
Operator(s): K9FA@K5NA
Station: K5NA
Class: SO 3Band LP
QTH: EM10
Operating Time (hrs):
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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6: 138 76
2: 30 9
222:
432: 18 7
903:
1.2:
2.3:
3.4:
5.7:
10G:
24G:
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Total: 186 92 Total Score = 18,768
Club: Central Texas DX and Contest Club
Comments:
Thanks to Susan, K5DU and Richard, K5NA I was once again able to operate from
their station during the January VHF contest. This time I was able to beat my
last time score over 3 fold.
Band Mode QSOs Pts Grd
50 FT8 109 109 60
50 MSK1 10 10 9
50 USB 19 19 7
144 CW 2 2 1
144 FM 1 1 0
144 USB 27 27 8
420 USB 18 36 7
Total Both 186 204 92
Unlike last year's contest, we had a small, if weak, opening west and to
southern California early in the contest. A spotty opening was present to EN,
but insufficient for a QSO. The day ended with about 5k points.
Sunday started with an early opening to the E having worked EL stations and to
the NW with EN appearing in the log. The E-W opening widened into more to the S
and TG, XE, CM KP4 stations were added to the log. The highlight was that
pointing directly East and calling CQ on 6m, XE3MC in EK37 (due S) called me.
The lack of CW and low number USB 6m QSOs was as disturbing as it was last year;
it appeared that some operators were forcing a FT8 QSOs when USB would have
worked just fine. Experimenting with MS was a lesson and a bonus since 90% of
the MS QSOs resulted in a new grid. The WSJT software improvement made FT8
operation much more intuitive and limited dupes.
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