[3830] NAQP RTTY W6YX M/2 LP

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                    North American QSO Party, RTTY

Call: W6YX
Operator(s): K6UFO K6OWL N6DE N2YM N7MH W6ZZZ ND2T
Station: W6YX

Class: M/2 LP
QTH: CA
Operating Time (hrs): 12

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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   80:   74    32
   40:  211    54
   20:  275    55
   15:   64    29
   10:    2     1
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Total:  626   171  Total Score = 107,046

Club: Northern California Contest Club

Team: 

Comments:

A big thank you to all the RTTY operators who stayed operating through the poor
conditions to give us more contacts and additional bands. A second big thank you
to those operators willing to QSY. Its really a  thrill when a QSY works and
that second contact is made!

We are very pleased to have increased our score from last July, though far down
from the record we set in February. We had no fewer than 4 of our great
operators at all times - doing running, spotting, changing antenna cables, etc.
We put together a good hardware setup to let us do our own spotting, but it only
works because of great coordination between the run and spotting operators. 

We encourage the "casual" operators out there to do more CQing, to give us time
to find them and get to them. We missed too many stations  because they were
only search-and-pounce, or didn't CQ very long and were gone when we got there.
Especially on the supposedly "dead" bands. We even heard 10m beacons from MN,
CO, and MT in the last hour of the contest - but there was nobody there to take
advantage of them.

The level of RTTY operating skill out there is great, with lots of quick
exchanges, and no poor signals noted. We had a few problems on our end, as the
labeled switch positions and feedlines for the 80m antennas didn't have the
right antennas on them! They must have been rearranged or cross-connected
elsewhwere. 

"Perennial powerhouse" Dean N6DE provided 20m spotting for our 20m run operator
Mark K6OWL, who had a lot more fun than with the isotrons at home! Yuichi N2YM
and Mark K6UFO hoped for more people to stay on 15m. Mark W6ZZZ took time off
from a party(!) to bring us dinner, and work the second half of the contest.
ND2T Tom was there with his "bouncing ball" chair to keep up the rythmm and
rate. ANd through it all we had great spotting on all bands from our star
spotter Mike N7MH. 

Hope to see you all again in NAQP RTTY February!

Mark K6UFO
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W6YX Equipment:
Four Yaesu FT-1000MPs
Writelog and MMTTY software

W6YX Antennas:
Tribanders: Force12 C31XR at 60 ft, Mosley Pro67 at 50 ft.
10m: (in hibernation) 6-el at 75 ft, 5-el at 31 ft.
15m: 6-el at 75 ft, 5-el at 25 ft
20m: 6-el at 65 ft, 5-el at 36 ft.
40m: 4-el yagi at 65 ft.
80m: Who knows? Supposed to be our 4-square, and inv. vee at 55 ft.


Rate:
QSO/MUL by hour and band
 Hour      80M     40M     20M     15M     10M    Total     Cumm 

D1-1800Z    -       -     27/21   24/14     -     51/35     51/35  
D1-1900Z    -       -     40/13   21/8      -     61/21    112/56  
D1-2000Z    -       -     37/4    10/4     2/1    49/9     161/65  
D1-2100Z    -       -     28/4     6/3      -     34/7     195/72  
D1-2200Z    -     11/7    40/8     3/0      -     54/15    249/87  
D1-2300Z    -     19/11   35/3      -       -     54/14    303/101 
D2-0000Z  --+--   18/11   25/1    --+--   --+--   43/12    346/113 
D2-0100Z    -     30/7    23/0      -       -     53/7     399/120 
D2-0200Z    -     46/9    17/1      -       -     63/10    462/130 
D2-0300Z  24/21   45/7     3/0      -       -     72/28    534/158 
D2-0400Z  33/8    29/1      -       -       -     62/9     596/167 
D2-0500Z  17/3    13/1      -       -       -     30/4     626/171 

Total:    74/32  211/54  275/55   64/29    2/1


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