[SCCC] Fwd: WPX SSB NT6Q(N5ZO) SOAB HP

[Marko Myllymaki]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: webform at b4h.net
> Date: March 31, 2024 at 8:03:02 PM PDT
> To: marko.n5zo at gmail.com
> Subject: WPX SSB NT6Q(N5ZO) SOAB HP
> Reply-To: marko.n5zo at gmail.com
> 
>                     CQWW WPX Contest, SSB - 2024
> 
> Call: NT6Q
> Operator(s): N5ZO
> Station: WA6TQT
> 
> Class: SOAB HP
> QTH: Anza, CA
> Operating Time (hrs): 36
> OpMode: SO2R
> Remote Operation
> 
> Summary:
> Band  QSOs
> ------------
>  160:     
>   80:   17
>   40:  386
>   20:  980
>   15:  810
>   10: 1053
> ------------
> Total: 3246  Prefixes = 1164  Total Score = 9,795,060
> 
> Club: Southern California Contest Club
> 
> Comments:
> 
> This was my first ever full time remote contest operation in major contest and
> my 1st major contest from WA6TQT Radio Ranch in Anza, CA; thanks John for the
> opportunity !  
> 
> It is quite different experience to participate with stacked yagis on all bands
> 40-10 m from quiet high desert location vs my own station in my suburban lot. 
> You just get to work different layers of stations from John's station.  In few
> occasions remote connection got briefly unstable but then cured by itself after
> few seconds or minutes.  Remoting is not quite same as being at station in
> person.  One can notice some small audio delays and also it feels weird when you
> add audio pop QRM caused by various remote audio effects to all already
> challenging band conditions we have from radio path.  It felt really weird
> asking fills due to those remote effects and even weirder when connection
> becomes unstable during QSO or run.  Couple times I found myself trying to ask
> QSO party to wait a bit for my remote to become stable again.  Somebody had good
> laugh about it.  But overall it surprises me how well the remote stuff works. 
> Perhaps very rainy weather during the weekend somehow impacted some connection
> links.  
> 
> I had amplifier failure about halfway through the contest and didn't really use
> 2nd station much at all after it, and 1st day I was almost too busy with just 1
> radio.  SO2R would have been quite useful on 2nd day when 10 m conditions were
> down.  1st day conditions were almost as good as we had in ARRL CW 1st day.  It
> seems I was able to break 25 years old W6 record set by N5KO by about 1M points
> (raw score).  Congrats to N6MJ and other high scorers and participants
> especially here in Western part of the country. 
> 73 and tnx for the QSOs de Marko N5ZO
> 
> 
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