[3830] WPX CW NT0EE M/M Distributed HP

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                    CQWW WPX Contest, CW - 2021

Call: NT0EE
Operator(s): K0MD AC0W N0HJZ W0GJ W0PR K0TT KI0F N0BUI
Station: NT0EE

Class: M/M Distributed HP
QTH: Mn
Operating Time (hrs): 48

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
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  160:   77
   80:  403
   40:  589
   20: 1145
   15:  561
   10:  269
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Total: 3044  Prefixes = 895  Total Score = 4,723,810

Club: Minnesota Wireless Assn

Comments:

Distributed MM using NT0EE as a call.

DXCC entities worked: 91
Operating time: 36 hours
Dupes: 1.71 %, with ~ half on 20 meters
Spotting errors noted: NT0ee was spotted as NT0e and K0ee
Software: n1mm+
Club: Minnesota Wireless Association
Logging and Software Maestro: Bill Lippert AC0W

A group of contesters from within MWA Team South decided to try the Distributed
MM before it goes away.  

Band     Operators            Power     Antenna(s)      Rig
160      W0GJ (Friday), W0PR   1500     Verticals       Flex 6700/Icom 7610
80       K0TT                  1500     4 SQR           Icom 7610
40       N0HJZ                  150     Vertical        Yaesu FT 1000d
20       K0MD                  1500     Stacked yagis   Icom 7610
15       AC0W                   200     Tribander       Yaesu FTdx 101
10       KI0F/N0BUI            1500     Tribander       Icom 7300

Individual comments:

W0GJ: Too few stations on 160! When Scott estimated 100 Q’s for 160M, I
laughed.   I thought it would be north of 500.   Boy was I ever wrong.   I had
about 40 Q’s the first night and I’m sure Larry thought I was lazy……but
just NO ONE AROUND on 160!   He got about another 40 in the log.   I heard
several calling me, but so far into the noise, I *think* they were calling me.  
Too bad the crops are in the fields, as all of my receive antennas have been put
away.   Still, the lack of 160 activity was depressing…..and very
frustrating.

W0PR: I was able to run on 160 and watch the golf tournament simultaneously. 
Larry also reported that his IC-7610 is a fabulous low band rig.

Country totals on 160: 13, all North America
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K0TT: Lots of EU worked on 80 meters. Band was in good shape until around
midnight local time on Sunday morning. QRN from thunderstorms increased
dramatically and there was deep QSB on most NA signals. Fortunately, this was
after the band closed to most of EU.  Main problem this weekend was deep/fast
QSB, which made copying serial numbers from weaker stations a challenge.

Approximate QSO breakdown by country: USA: 283,VE: 41, Other: 80
Denny, K0TT

Country totals on 80 - NA: 7, SA: 3, Europe: 22, Africa: 2, Oceania: 2
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N0HJZ: Congrats guys!  Great team effort! It sure was different being in
separate locations. I like a multi-op where we are all together. Again, great
effort and a great score!  
Rich N0HJZ

Country totals on 40: Na: 8, SA: 5, Europe: 17, Africa: 1, Oceania: 2
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K0MD: Amazing propagation on 20 meters. I started after 0200 GMT and could not
believe the crowding on 20. I worked until 0600 GMT before stopping. The band
was crowded again at 1300 GMT.  It was clear that 20 was open around the clock
somewhere. Nice to have the SFI back! Conditions were better to the difficult
regions to work: HZ, A71 and VU were loud at my place. The Icom IC-7610 is a top
tier CW contest rig. Its DSP filtering handled stations 300 hz away easily. I
encountered several instances of "frequent duping" so I QSYed assuming
I had been spotted incorrectly. I had a little trouble with the Acom 2000a in
full-break in so I switched to semi-breakin and it worked flawlessly.

Country totals on 20: NA: 13, SA: 11, Europe: 46, Africa: 7, Asia: 8, Oceania:
6
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AC0W:  15 meters was interesting and challenging. Like most contest weekends
conditions were different on the two days. First 24 hrs there was little
propagation to stations north of 45 degrees latitude from my QTH. Beam headings
were what you would expect for most stations and stayed between 90 to 270
degrees. The second 24 hours it was like I was dealing with sporadic E and back
scatter. Other than the EU stations when the band first opened it was a roll of
the dice to figure out where to point the beam. Make some Q’s one direction,
when that dried up turn beam 45 degree and now a new group in the same area as I
was working before. Everything to the west of me was worked point east or
southeast. Pointing the antenna west, the signals would disappear. The beam
pretty much stay between 90 & 180 degrees on Sunday. So conditions kept me
on my toes all weekend. Thanks to N0HJZ and K0MD for setting up the distributed
operation, it was interesting to do. However, I did miss the camaraderie when we
all are at the same QTH.

Bill – AC0W

Country totals on 15: NA: 13, SA: 11, Europe: 10, Africa: 4, Oceania: 3
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KI0F: Friday night was a struggle  with limited results.  Saturday I had
commitments around 3:00 and it seems the band was starting to open.  Sunday the
was when most of the e skip made its way up north to MN.  Had DXMAPS on watching
the east coast and southeast US start to glow red.  Majority of q’s were made
Sunday.  Very fast QSK on most signals.  Could copy the call sign with a strong
signal and then when the numbers came they sometimes would drop out and never
came back at all.  First time on ten for the duration of any multi band contest.
  I had Mike N0BUI come in from Winona to help when the e-skip was in. Roger,
KI0F

Country totals on 10: NA: 6, SA: 3, Africa: 2
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It was an interesting and fun experience. Thanks to all from MWA who joined
efforts.  We appreciated all of the QSO's.


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