[CQ-Contest] 6M CW

[Stan Stockton]

It would be interesting to know how much time was spent sending CQ by N6RO on 6m CW versus transmitting in FT8 mode.  Did they just work a few they happened to hear or did the make a significant effort to attract callers.  Without knowing that info it would be difficult to know whether CW QSOs were not possible in a number greater than 11 or whether they could have made a hundred QSOs with a major effort to do so.

Stan, K5GO

> On Oct 25, 2022, at 6:17 PM, john at kk9a.com wrote:
> 
> Those are sad VHF CW totals but it is not just 6m that lacks Morse code
> activity.  Earlier this year I operated 30m CW from PJ4 using a 2el beam on
> a mountain top. Conditions seemed good but I had to beg for QSOs and quit
> before making a hundred. I had similarly poor results last year from P4.
> 15-20 years ago I had huge 30m CW pilups from P40A using a low dipole.
> 
> John KK9A
> 
> 
> Jim Brown k9yc wrote:
> 
> This was the summary for 22 hours in June VHF by 4 ops at super-station 
> N6RO running High Power. At least three are serious CW contesters, 
> including N6RO himself. In the write-up, WD6T noted "CW contacts 
> galore," with 12 CW QSOs, all on 6M. N6RO is about 90 miles NE of me.
> 
>  Band   Mode  QSOs     Pts  Grd  Pt/Q
>     50  CW      11      11    5   1.0
>     50  FM       1       1    0   1.0
>     50  FT8    181     181  103   1.0
>     50  USB     44      44   13   1.0
>    144  FM       8       8    2   1.0
>    144  FT8      4       4    0   1.0
>    144  RTTY     2       2    0   1.0
>    144  USB     33      33    9   1.0
>    222  USB      8      16    6   2.0
>    420  FM       2       4    0   2.0
>    420  USB     27      54   11   2.0
>   1240  USB     15      45    6   3.0
>  Total  Both   336     403  155   1.2
> 
> 73, K9YC
> 
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