CQWW WPX Contest, SSB - 2019
Call: NT6F
Operator(s): NT6F
Station: NT6F
Class: SOAB HP
Class Overlay: TB-Wires
QTH: Saratoga, CA
Operating Time (hrs): 5.75
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 0
80: 0
40: 60
20: 52
15: 0
10: 0
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Total: 112 Prefixes = 88 Total Score = 18,480
Club: Northern California Contest Club
Comments:
My goal was to significantly exceed my QSO count and score from last year. I
expected to put in about the same amount of time in the chair, but figured I
could do better than last year because 1) I have a better prefix for this
contest now, and 2) I have an amplifier now. I couldn't get on the air Friday
night, so Saturday morning I made a cup of copy and fired up the station. I
figured I could still get in 12 hours (equalling last year's effort), but... My
first transmission resulted in alarms from the amp. I'd made a few station
changes, but none of them should have resulted in this! Once I finished that
first cup of coffee and woke up a little, I decided something must have happened
to the trusty dipole in the last two days. I ran a sweep with the antenna
analyzer and it looked reasonable until I compared it to the last baseline
sweep. Definite differences, so I climbed up on the roof and immediately saw the
problem. One end of the dipole was hanging vertical from the balun. So I got
started pretty late. Once I got the antenna situation resolved I discovered I
was having audio issues. I was able to minimize them until I moved to 40M. The
audio distortion was major there. I finally unplugged a cable running from the
headphone jack on the rig to a mic input on my computer. Completely resolved the
audio distortion! Dealing with these issues wore me out. I managed to equal last
year's QSO count and slightly exceeded last year's score in about half the
hours. So unsatisfying in that I didn't get the hours in I'd hoped to, but very
satisfied that I essentially doubled last year's overall rate. Progress!
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