[3830] RTTY WPX N4SS(W5MX) SOAB HP

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                    CQ WPX RTTY Contest - 2021

Call: N4SS
Operator(s): W5MX
Station: W5MX

Class: SOAB HP
QTH: KY
Operating Time (hrs): 35

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
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   80:  272
   40:  649
   20:  683
   15:  159
   10:    3
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Total: 1766  Prefixes = 686  Total Score = 3,423,140

Club: 

Comments:

At the risk of sounding completely off my rocker, I have to admit something that
is both hilarious and an epic fail. You all are going to like this. So, I load
up all the equipment heading down to the contest site after work Friday ready
for a contest. All good so far, right? This is where it goes sideways - I
thought this last weekend was ARRL DX CW :-). I got all set up and get the radio
turned on at 00:45z ready to rock in the cw portion of 40 meters and hear a slow
speed QSO in progress around 7020. Uh oh..... tuned around the bottom 25kc of 40
and its pretty much dead. I thought man, this is strange, something is up. I
look at the contest calendar and see WPX RTTY going on. So, quick switch of the
plan and to get N1MM set up for the contest. I still can't believe I did that! I
swear I am losing it these days.

I had not run the new FTDX101D in RTTY at all yet let, alone with N1MM. Luckily
I had N1MM configured from my FTDX3000 and it worked perfectly right off the bat
with no issues! Started making Q's just before 01:00.
With the recent ice storms, swr a little wacky on some of the antennas but
nothing a tuner couldn't fix. I have all fixed antennas at this point so nothing
to freeze up there.

Conditions were ok for the most part, hopefully a bit better for the ARRL DX
CW.
Band by band:
10- Just a few SA q's.
15- Short western EU openings late both mornings. SA and west coast were
reasonable of course. Didn't spend a ton of time here.
20- Real good conditions both mornings on 20m through EU and even into Asia.
Worked several VK long path. Spent a fair amount of time here with 10 and 15
being relatively subdued to say the least.
40- Pretty good to EU both evenings and late into the night. I hung out on 40 as
much as I could racking up the higher point QSO's.
80- not all the best, seemed a bit noisy. Beverages iced up and hanging low.
Didn't get a chance to walk them before the contest. My SW and NW beverages
seemed a bit down on RX, I bet the ice storm knocked a few branches down on
them. Need to get corrected before next weekend! Not too many 6 pointers.
Normally a good place to work lots of stateside stations and rack up the unique
prefixes but just never got any big runs going.

Had a blast in spite of the challenges at the beginning of the contest. Was fun
using the contest club call N4SS, and will use it next weekend as well. I love
that call on CW! Hopefully the ice storms aren't too bad this week or it may
cause big problems for ARRL DX next weekend. 

Best 73's all!
N4SS
(Bryan W5MX)


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