[SCCC] ARRLDX SSB N5ZO(@WA6TQT) SOAB HP

[marko.n5zo at gmail.com]

We have now 5 of 6 major international contest SOAB W6 records from WA6TQT
station, all operated via remote:

WPX SSB NT6Q on N5ZO 2024
WPX CW NT6Q op N5ZO 2024
CQWW SSB K6JO 2024
CQWW CW NO6T op KI6RRN 2024 (pending final results), it is also zone 3
record
ARRL DX SSB N5ZO 2025 (pending final results)
 

-----Original Message-----
From: webform at b4h.net <webform at b4h.net> 
Sent: Tuesday, March 4, 2025 3:54 AM
To: marko.n5zo at gmail.com
Subject: ARRLDX SSB N5ZO(@WA6TQT) SOAB HP

                    ARRL DX Contest, SSB - 2025

Call: N5ZO
Operator(s): N5ZO
Station: WA6TQT

Class: SOAB HP
QTH: CA
Operating Time (hrs): 44
OpMode: SO2R
Remote Operation

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
  160:   12    10
   80:   92    37
   40:  586    72
   20:  336    67
   15:  831    88
   10:  822    97
-------------------
Total: 2679   371  Total Score = 2,981,727

Club: Southern California Contest Club

Comments:

Raw score beats W6 record I made last year from my home station but only by
9.5 % although this operation was from much bigger station from great QTH
operating via remote, thanks John WA6TQT hosting me again.

Overall conditions did not feel that good from here especially when compared
to last years spectacular 1st day.  This year 2nd day morning conditions
were much better to Europe than 1st day.  Of course in 5 years we can only
dream of these conditions.  20 m was especially poor from here and I was not
able to get much anything going there.  Overall I worked only about 100 QSOs
more than last year from my more modest home station.  There is about 100
less Europeans in the log and about 150 more JAs compared to last year.  All
of those additional JAs are from 80 and 40 which makes sense with better
antenna systems this year.  

I was not going to even operate SSB portion 1st but I wanted to test K4 on
remote use and we were not able to get that radio connected online for CW
contest at remote site so I used our legacy K3 remote system for CW contest
couple weeks ago.  We were able to get K4 finally online few days before SSB
contest by deploying workaround using 2nd router at the remote site so I
then wanted to compare it with K3 on remote use having K3 station on left
and K4 station on right for this contest.  It was good experiment and I
found several issues to work on and figure out before we should consider
full deployment of K4 radios at the station.  Biggest issue seemed to be
unusually long delay transitioning from transmitting to receive when I
lifted my foot off the footswitch.  Many times other party had already
started to transmit before I was able to receive.  I will probably make some
measurements in coming days to compare this timing difference with K3
system.  But overall I felt I gravitated doing more running with left
station having K3 radio.

This time I remembered self-spotting and was using it often.  It definetly
made stations to appear on run frequency very quickly.  But something must
have happened on Sunday as it did not seem be working so well and very often
did not seem to help at all.  Overall I wish whole self spotting thing would
be canceled.  

Again too many US / VE stations were answering and at some point I just
stopped working them as it felt if I did then there was flood of them
calling and covering DX stations I actually wanted to work.  Anyway this
year I did not log any of those 0 point Qs even if we exchanged reports.

Tnx for QSOs de Marko N5ZO


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