[3830] NAQP RTTY W6YX M/2 LP

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                    North American QSO Party, RTTY - February

Call: W6YX
Operator(s): K6UFO ND2T N6DB N7MH W6NEV KZ2V W6RK
Station: W6YX

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

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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   80:  154    43
   40:  326    53
   20:  281    54
   15:  364    51
   10:  216    38
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Total: 1341   239  Total Score = 320,499

Club: Northern California Contest Club

Team: 

Comments:

February is very good to us. We set the current M/2 record in 
February 2011 of 1333 QSOs x 224 Mults for a score of 298,592 points. 
In February 2012 we came close with 1150 x 251 for 288,650. 

This February our 1341 x 239 for 320,499 (before checking) would be a 
new record - EXCEPT look at the tough competition with more QSOs!
KU5B at 1459 x 221 = 322,439
NU2F at 1403 x 225 = 315,675
NR5M at 1475 x 209 = 308,275

I won't even mention the great scores posted by M/2s at WW4LL, N0NI 
and K6LRG! Up until Feb 2012 we had been the only station to exceed 
1,000 QSOs. Then last year, five stations did it. And now, we've got 
two or three more!  Increasing RTTY participation, and the interest 
of the "big" M/2 stations has made this a tough competition.

I scrambled around getting the W6YX station ready, including changing 
out one computer that would just not behave, updating software on five 
computers, installing and testing FSK interfaces, setting up the 
logging software, messages and screen layouts. I think I got it about 
90% right, with just a few changes needed on-the-fly on Saturday.

We had our usual team of great operators. ND2T and K6UFO made a 
super-fast start, with two hours of rate over 150!  N6DB and 
N7MH came in and provided local spotting to scoop up more new 
multipliers and new stations. We had our usual debate about when to 
go to 20m, since our 20m QSO count is less than the surrounding 15m 
and 40m, but its hard to leave 10m when it is open! We had to go to 
40m at what seemed awfully early 00Z, but the rate didn't suffer, and 
we had four more hours of rate over 100! During the afternoon and 
evening, our much needed relief team of fresh-operators were W6NEV, 
KZ2V and W6RK. The operators are fantastic, maybe we could use better 
radio filtering and another panadapter. I'm too tired to worry about 
it yet.  

Thank you to all the participating stations who make our high QSO 
counts possible!

for W6YX, de K6UFO..

W6YX Stanford University equipment:
C-31xr Tribander
Mosely Pro-57 Tribander
10m: 6 el yagi at 70 ft, 5-el at 30 ft
15m: 6 el yagi at 70 ft, 5 el yagi at 25 ft
20m: 6 el yagi at 60 ft, 5 el yagi at 36 ft
40m: 4 el at 60 ft, inverted vee at 50 ft
80m: two inverted vees at 50 ft
Beverage receiving antennas
Yaesu FT-1000MP, Yaesu FT-1000MP MkVs, Elecraft K3 and panadapter.
Writelog and MMTTY software.
Microham, Rascal and W3YY FSK interfaces.

QSO/MUL by hour and band

Hour    80M     40M     20M     15M     10M    Total     Cumm  

1800Z    -       -       -     97/33   80/22  177/55    177/55  
1900Z    -       -       -     88/8    66/8   154/16    331/71  
2000Z    -       -     21/17   60/6    18/3    99/26    430/97  
2100Z    -       -       -     40/1    52/5    92/6     522/103 
2200Z    -       -     76/23   51/3      -    127/26    649/129 
2300Z    -       -     62/6    28/0      -     90/6     739/135 
0000Z  --+--   43/27   66/5    --+--   --+--  109/32    848/167 
0100Z    -     70/15   40/2      -       -    110/17    958/184 
0200Z  16/6    72/6    16/1      -       -    104/13   1062/197 
0300Z  46/23   67/3      -       -       -    113/26   1175/223 
0400Z  38/8    49/1      -       -       -     87/9    1262/232 
0500Z  54/6    25/1      -       -       -     79/7    1341/239 

Total:154/43  326/53  281/54  364/51  216/38


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