[3830] 10RTTY W6YX Multi-Op LP

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                    Ten-Meter RTTY Contest

Call: W6YX
Operator(s): ND2T K6UFO
Station: W6YX

Class: Multi-Op LP
QTH: CA
Operating Time (hrs): 11

Summary:
Total:  QSOs = 269  State/Prov = 42  Countries = 16  Total Score = 15,602

Club: Northern California Contest Club

Comments:

Solar flux was falling all week. Fell below 100 on Sunday. Not good for 10m.

Tom ND2T started the contest with less than one hour to sunset, but made 
32 QSOs and 6 Mults in the first 1.5 hours. Thank you to Tom and the JA's!

I came in before Sunrise (15z) to operate the rest of Sunday. There was a 
big rain storm going on in CA, and it soaked me as I went to tower base 
(in the dark) to switch antennas from the 160m back to the 10m antenna.

Even with low solar flux, I could start working W4's at my sunrise. I could 
also watch the East Coast stations work Europeans. No Europeans heard 
or worked, our best DX eastward was 5C5W in Morocco.

During the day, 10m would slowly fade up and down. Never "fully" open, 
just selective openings. Also "short skip" to close by was very difficult -  
New Hampshire or North Carolina were easier then Nevada or Arizona.

Final with 3 hours to sunset, whatever openings were left had shifted to the 
Pacific. In the last hour I only worked one QSO and one Dupe!  Still, we 
made a respectable score in our first attempt at Multi-op in this contest. 

A fun contest, as long as we have still have sunspots! Thanks for the 
contacts.

W6YX: ND2T and K6UFO

C-31XR tribander at 60ft
6 el yagi at 70 ft
One Yaesu FT-1000MP, 100 watts
Writelog software

QSO/Mults by hour
Hour    10M     Cumm    OffTime
00Z     25/6     25/6   
01Z      7/0     32/6      18
02Z       -      32/6      60
03Z       -      32/6      60
04Z       -      32/6      60
05Z       -      32/6      60
06Z       -      32/6      60
07Z       -      32/6      60
08Z       -      32/6      60
09Z       -      32/6      60
10Z       -      32/6      60
11Z       -      32/6      60
12Z       -      32/6      60
13Z       -      32/6      60
14Z      2/2     34/8      55
15Z     12/8     46/16  
16Z     20/11    66/27  
17Z     42/14   108/41  
18Z     50/9    158/50  
19Z     44/6    202/56  
20Z     30/2    232/58  
21Z     27/0    259/58  
22Z      9/0    268/58  
23Z      1/0    269/58  
Total: 269/58


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