[RTTY] WPX

[Keith Maton]

Perversely, I went with a 15m entry because I had other things to do at the weekend and it meant I could leave the station calling CQ and only have to pay attention when I heard someone reply.

Of course that means I was woefully down on QSOs, despite tuning round a few times and working everyone I heard.

You weren’t the only M7 but only not many stations benefitted from my prefix on 15m.  It’s a shame that in WPX, multipliers aren’t per band rather than overall.

73 Keith G6NHU (M7P)


> On 13 Feb 2018, at 10:06, David G3YYD via RTTY <rtty at contesting.com> wrote:
> 
> Don
> 
> Well done on the 1700. Sorry to hear about your antenna woe. I avoid those
> element tuning antennas as too much in them to go wrong. 
> 
> Middle of England QTH does have some advantages at 53 degrees north. It
> means 40m and 80m are key bands especially as they have twice the points
> score for each Q compared to 20/15/10. So run on 40m all the time is a must
> for me with a Q rate lower than 20m but a higher point rate. 
> 
> Forget 15m as WPX is a rate contest and 15m at this state of the solar cycle
> is low rate compared to 20m. Sounds funny that when it is called a prefix
> contest but once a prefix is worked on any band no point in working another
> so it is a points rate contest based on Qs. My M7T contest call was probably
> the only M7 prefix available which helps to attract assisted S&P.
> 
> I worked 20m while it was good points rate and then swapped that radio to
> 80m for a higher point rate around about 1800utc (also local time). 40m
> radio just stayed on the same band the whole time.
> 
> Once run rate had re4ally slowed towards the end of the contest, I then did
> S&P for new prefixes only as that had a higher point rate than running at
> that stage of the contest.
> 
> 73 David G3YYD aka M7T
> 
> 
> 
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