[3830] CQ WW RTTY NH6O SO(A)AB QRP

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                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, RTTY - 2022

Call: NH6O
Operator(s): NH6O
Station: NH6O

Class: SO(A)AB QRP
QTH: Honolulu HI
Operating Time (hrs): 7

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  State/Prov  DX  Zones
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   80:                           
   40:   3        2       2     2
   20:  35       19       9    10
   15:  43       15       9     9
   10:  12        4       8     8
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Total:  93       40      28    29  Total Score = 25,511

Club: 

Comments:

Park portable - Elecraft KX3 - 5W, 31-ft end-fed vertical wire in tree. 2
sessions - Sunday 0200-0500, and Sunday 2000-2400. 

RTTY is not a QRP-friendly mode, but I wanted to try at least a few hours of the
contest this year after missing it since 2018. It's fun to get reacquainted with
this quirky and anachronistic mode - picking out the correctly received calls
and exchanges from all the screen garbage on 3 decoder windows. I do prefer the
active element of tuning and zero-beating signals to FTx contesting on a single
watering hole frequency.


20 meters was pretty good in the first session (late afternoon local time).
Worked a fair number of Midwest and East Coast, with some of the Caribbean
stations workable as well. 15 and 10 weren't so active, but I worked the few
Pacific rim stations I heard.

The second session (midday local time) started slow, as almost all my midday
sessions do. 20 meters sounded like my radio's attenuator was on, and I had very
limited success. 15 was the better band - not great, but signals were
consistently stronger than on 20. 

10 didn't open significantly, but I did manage a few contacts to JA, South
Pacific, and transequatorially to South America.

I wish PSK31 contesting had caught on more successfully - I'd love to work a CQ
WW/WPX style contest with QRP in that mode someday!

Aloha and 73,
Bob NH6O in Honolulu


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