[3830] RTTY Roundup ND2T(@W6YX) M/S HP

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                    ARRL RTTY Roundup

Call: ND2T
Operator(s): ND2T, W6RK
Station: W6YX

Class: M/S HP
QTH: CA
Operating Time (hrs): 24

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
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   80:  198
   40:  347
   20:  622
   15:   79
   10:     
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Total: 1246  State/Prov = 58  Countries = 30  Total Score = 109,648

Club: Northern California Contest Club

Comments:

The W6YX station hosted two multi-single operations for RTTY RU: ND2T and W6YX.

We arranged ahead of time that ND2T would get priority in band and antenna
selection and make a serious 1-radio run. The W6YX side (which reported
separately) would be used for contester training. At this stage in the sunspot
cycle, the best band from here typically supported 3x to 10x the rate available
on the second-best band, which was sometimes embarrassing for us. We’d like to
thank the W6YX operators for their courtesy and grace. Like them, we are looking
forward to more elbow room during the next cycle. 

We have roughly the same number of Qs in the log as last year, but 15 fewer
mults. What’s missing? Europe. We heard Southern California stations working
EUs, but we couldn’t hear the EUs. We have a paltry 6 EU Qs in the log. Is
our path enough more polar to make so much difference? We compensated for the
missing Qs with Ks VEs and JAs, but we couldn’t compensate for the missing
multipliers.

20m was our money band, but we had pretty well exhausted it by Sunday
afternoon. Best hourly rates were on 20m during the first two hours and on 40m
during the 01Z hour.

Participation seemed up, and we had a lot of fun. Nothing broke during the
contest. We’d like to thank everyone who designs, builds and maintains the
amazing W6YX club station. We send a special shout out to K6OWL who configured
our hardware and software for this contest.


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