[3830] WPX CW ND2T(@W6YX) M/2 HP

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                    CQWW WPX Contest, CW

Call: ND2T
Operator(s): K6UFO N7MH NF1R KZ2V W6RK ND2T K6SF N6DB
Station: W6YX

Class: M/2 HP
QTH: SCV
Operating Time (hrs): 42

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
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  160:    0
   80:  251
   40:  804
   20: 1054
   15:  621
   10:   57
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Total: 2787  Prefixes = 870  Total Score = 6,236,160

Club: Northern California Contest Club

Comments:

This is the third year in a row we did a lightly-staffed (lots 
of operators but not much time from most), fun M/2. As in the 
past we improved upon our previous years' score. But this year 
we did it the hard way: ~300 more Qs; ~150 fewer prefixes. 

W6YX is a busy club station. Radios, cables, antennas computers 
and software are liable to change from day to day. Nothing is 
ever the way you left it. K6UFO spent a day diagnosing the shack 
and reconfiguring it for WPX. He wound up establishing three 
operating positions and this was a very good thing, because one 
of the MPs went deaf in the first minutes of the contest. The 
buggy radio was fixed by N7MH later Friday night. Many thanks 
to Rebar, N6DB, for the allowing us to use his superb K-line. 
It saved the day.

Conditions were difficult. USA and Canada stations were always 
available in great numbers. But DX, especially Europeans (at 11% 
of Qs), were  difficult to hear and work. We did somewhat better 
to Asia (26% of Qs), a long salt water shot for us. Friday night 
only the strongest Europeans were heard on 20m. And no JAs at 
all. Saturday and Sunday our operators got to work weird skew 
path openings and practice persistence through numerous fills. 
We had to search and pounce far more than usual. Typically we 
can hear most stations spotted by NA spotters and work them in 
one or two calls. This year there were plenty of spots that 
led to nothing. 

W6YX Stanford University Antennas:
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
80m: inverted vee at 50 ft
160m: "C" antenna off tower
Beverage receiving antennas


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