[3830] NAQP SSB W6YX M/2 LP

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                    North American QSO Party, SSB - January

Call: W6YX
Operator(s): K6UFO K6MP N6DB NF1R K6SF W6LD
Station: W6YX

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

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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  160:   40     6
   80:  142    28
   40:  466    53
   20:  477    60
   15:  476    56
   10:  288    31
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Total: 1889   234  Total Score = 442,026

Club: Northern California Contest Club

Team: 

Comments:

Our best NAQP SSB in the dozen years that I can remember! 

10m was a great start, with Mork K6UFO running 182 contacts in 
the first hour! But 10m faded after two hours, so we had a 
chance to work on the crowded and noisy 20m band.

15m and the "new-guy" Jake K6MP were no slouches starting with 
three straight hours of rate over 100 QSOs/hr. 15m lasted until 
about 3PM in the afternoon, and 40m was slow starting up. but 
40m was shining by 5PM.

80m and 160m took a long time to improve. Listening on 160m 
just before the 10th hour, there wasn't anything but a couple 
locals. 160m was much better in the 11th and 12th hours. 

K6UFO and K6MP were the iron hams on site for the full 12 hrs.  
A continuing thank you to Rebar N6DB for loan of his K3 and P3, 
it makes searching the band so much easier! And speaking of 
Rebar N6DB - even with his left hand in a cast, he two-finger 
typed a hundred QSOs for the team. Clayton NF1R showed his 
impressive way of making QSOs faster and faster - even during 
the usual mid-day lull. Surprise visitor Chris K6SF came in to 
work a couple hours. A great relief to us, and another NCCC 
participant for the club competition! John W6LD came in after 
sunset when we needed his help to motivate the low bands into 
better shape. He calmly alternated CQing and S&P, and enjoyed 
greeting the local NCCCers.

This is the highest NAQP SSB score we've made (according to my 
poor memory), and all six operators are NCCC members for 
the Club competition. See you in NAQP RTTY on February 23rd!

...for the W6YX team, K6UFO Mork!

W6YX Stanford University equipment:
C-31xr Tribander
Mosely Pro 57b
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
160m: "C" antenna off one tower.
Beverage receiving antennas.
Yaesu FT-1000MP, Yaesu FT-1000MP MkV, Elecraft K3 and panadapter.
Writelog software.

QSO/MUL by hour and band

Hour  160M    80M     40M     20M     15M     10M    Total     Cumm  

18Z    -       -       -       -    105/38  182/27  287/65    287/65  
19Z    -       -       -     11/10  103/7    78/3   192/20    479/85  
20Z    -       -       -     42/21  107/4    19/0   168/25    647/110 
21Z    -       -       -     73/16   73/2     9/1   155/19    802/129 
22Z    -       -       -     74/2    60/5      -    134/7     936/136 
23Z    -       -     11/6   113/7    28/0      -    152/13   1088/149 
00Z  --+--   --+--   61/10   73/2    --+--   --+--  134/12   1222/161 
01Z    -       -     95/13   69/2      -       -    164/15   1386/176 
02Z    -     20/6   110/11   22/0      -       -    152/17   1538/193 
03Z    -     49/8    85/11     -       -       -    134/19   1672/212 
04Z  15/6    39/7    73/1      -       -       -    127/14   1799/226 
05Z  25/0    34/7    31/1      -       -       -     90/8    1889/234 

Tot: 40/6   142/28  466/53  477/60  476/56  288/31


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