[3830] RTTY Roundup W6YX M/S HP

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                    ARRL RTTY Roundup

Call: W6YX
Operator(s): W6NEV W6RK K6YL K6UFO
Station: W6YX

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

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
------------
   80:  239
   40:  240
   20:  311
   15:  320
   10:  263
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Total: 1373  State/Prov = 57  Countries = 54  Total Score = 152,403

Club: Northern California Contest Club

Comments:

For the second year we operated three stations from the Stanford 
University ham shack. Despite having to share antennas and sometimes 
being stuck on a "dead band," we bumped up our combined score total 
from 411K to 417k. Nice!
 
W6YX was a "big gun" with N6DE's Alpha 9500 providing a full KW on 
RTTY. We had four great operators: W6NEV, W6RK, K6YL and K6UFO. We 
had software and equipment that we were familiar with, and no gremlins 
or glitches. We occasionally had some inter-station interference that 
reduced our ability to hear weak stations. 

We did not have a dedicated spotting operator this year, but relied 
on the cluster spots filtered through VE7CC. We noticed several spots 
being off-frequency by 1 or 2 kHz, I guess the spotter didn't have 
their RTTY offset set correctly.  

Conditions were good, but not great. We were glad to have 10m open 
so that during the day we had three open bands for our three stations. 
When 10m finally closed to the west we had to go up to 40m too early. 
And in the evening only 40m and 80m were open, so the N6DB operation 
closed early.

Contacts were 90 percent from USA, up from 80 percent last year. We 
"Worked All States" including DC, and 55 DX countries, down from 60 
last year. Glad to work lots of new RTTY operators.

Sunday morning provided a quick dozen new European countries for Mults.
Otherwise, it was running with hourly rates never quite reaching 
100 Qs/hr.
 
Thanks for all the contacts, see you in WPX-RTTY on Feb 8 and 
NAQP-RTTY on Feb 23.

...for the W6YX team, K6UFO Mork!

W6YX Stanford University equipment:
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: inverted vee at 50 ft
Beverage receiving antennas
Yaesu FT-1000MP
Alpha 9500 amp
Writelog and MMTTY software, 
Microham micro2r FSK interface.

QSO/Mults by hour and band
 Hour      80M     40M     20M     15M     10M    Total     Cumm    Off
D1-1800Z    -       -       -       -    104/35  104/35    104/35  
D1-1900Z    -       -       -     59/12    2/0    61/12    165/47  
D1-2000Z    -       -     59/5     3/1      -     62/6     227/53  
D1-2100Z    -       -       -       -     52/4    52/4     279/57  
D1-2200Z    -       -       -     71/5     2/0    73/5     352/62  
D1-2300Z    -       -     86/5     3/0      -     89/5     441/67  
D2-0000Z  --+--   41/1     2/0    --+--   --+--   43/1     484/68  
D2-0100Z    -      8/0      -       -       -      8/0     492/68     55
D2-0200Z  41/1      -       -       -       -     41/1     533/69      8
D2-0300Z  58/3      -       -       -       -     58/3     591/72  
D2-0400Z  52/2     7/0      -       -       -     59/2     650/74  
D2-0500Z    -     36/5      -       -       -     36/5     686/79  
D2-0600Z    -     33/1      -       -       -     33/1     719/80  
D2-0700Z  53/0      -       -       -       -     53/0     772/80  
D2-0800Z   3/0    --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--    3/0     775/80     55
D2-0900Z    -       -       -       -       -      0/0     775/80     60
D2-1000Z    -       -       -       -       -      0/0     775/80     60
D2-1100Z    -       -       -       -       -      0/0     775/80     60
D2-1200Z    -       -       -       -       -      0/0     775/80     60
D2-1300Z  26/0      -       -       -       -     26/0     801/80     12
D2-1400Z   6/0    28/1      -       -       -     34/1     835/81  
D2-1500Z    -     46/2      -       -       -     46/2     881/83  
D2-1600Z  --+--    3/0    21/10   --+--   --+--   24/10    905/93  
D2-1700Z    -       -     71/6      -       -     71/6     976/99  
D2-1800Z    -       -      6/0    76/3      -     82/3    1058/102 
D2-1900Z    -       -       -      8/0    78/1    86/1    1144/103 
D2-2000Z    -       -       -     63/0     2/0    65/0    1209/103 
D2-2100Z    -       -     63/5     1/1      -     64/6    1273/109 
D2-2200Z    -       -      2/0    25/2    21/0    48/2    1321/111 
D2-2300Z    -     38/0     1/0    11/0     2/0    52/0    1373/111 

Total:   239/6   240/10  311/31  320/24  263/40


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