CQ WW RTTY WPX Contest
Call: WX5S
Operator(s): @W6YX K6UFO K6OWL WX5S W6ZZZ WB6TQG W6LD KG6RYB AA6XV
Station: W6YX
Class: M/2 HP
QTH: CA
Operating Time (hrs): 48
Summary:
Band QSOs Pts
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80: 199
40: 436
20: 642
15: 645
10: 98
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Total: 2020 4930 Prefixes = 577 Total Score = 2,844,610
Club: Northern California Contest Club
Comments:
Thanks to a great bunch of operators, we experienced the thrills (and
frustrations) of 48Hr Multi-contesting!
Our Multi-2 score this year far exceeded last year, AND even beat the score
from our Multi-Multi the year before that! We really wanted to beat our
friends at the NN6NN M/S, but due to the problems noted below, we were as
much as 150 QSOs behind them on Saturday night, Ouch! Then on Sunday, we
turned up the heat, spurred on by WX5S and W6LD, and pulled to within 10
QSOs of them by the closing bell. Congrats to NN6NN and all the other great
operations on the air.
Here's our excuses in hopes we can learn from them:
1. Marc W6ZZZ is pushing the CQ button so well, he manages to blow the fuses
in the amp. When he finally notices (I guess the rate finally dropped) we
scurry about and find the replacement fuses. Keep an eye on the amp!
2. Keying the amp on station #2 was intermittent. Yet whenever we stopped to
investigate, it would work. We check the cables and can't find a problem.
Eventually, Mork K6UFO does some heavy-lifting and swaps in a different amp.
Still intermittent. K6UFO does more heavy-lifting and swaps in a different
radio. Still intermittent, and this radio is quite hard of hearing - we may
have toasted the front end. K6UFO does more heavy-lifting and swaps back to
the first radio. We can hear better, but amp-keying is still intermittent.
Gary AD6FP drops by and has K6UFO help with some heavy-lifting to get a
rack-mount power supply into the back of his truck. K6UFO refuses to do any
more heavy-lifting! We finally notice the amp-keying is blocked when the
other station and amp starts transmitting first. Maybe some RFI from the
other station? We try wrapping cables on toroids, moving cables, etc. but
finally just use combinations of antennas, and low enough power on the first
amp (400 w) to let us get back to working stations!
3. As mentioned, one rig was quite deaf, and had to be swapped back out.
One other rig was operating strangely with IF shift and offsets wrong, so we
finally had to do a master CPU reset, and then go through the user manual
and menus entering the settings we thought we needed. It seemed to work
better after that, but we also fixed several MMTTY settings which seemed to
be spontaneously changing. Eventually it was usable - so back to running!
Some other highlights:
Some "new" ops to W6YX participated, and really injected some fresh energy
and fun. Despite all the hardware problems, they kept a good attitude and
put in many good hours.
On Saturday afternoon, we took one of our two stations off the air so Mike
N7MH could operate the CW Sprint. We stayed away from his band, and he
turned in a good score, despite our distraction of a parallel RTTY
operation.
Sunday morning long path was great, and W6LD ran up the EU QSOs and Mults.
Then, the direct path on 20m and 15m was great and we piled up some more!
Late in the contest, K6UFO is CQing into the pacific, and rare 6M0 Mult
stops by to complain about us "messing up the band" and other gripes. We try
to ignore him, then move to a different frequency, but he follows us and
keeps complaining. Our ops look him up and notice its the club station of
the KOREA INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR SAFETY. To avoid any nuclear safety
"incidents" we move again and point away from Korea :-).
We had a great time, and thank you for all the contacts.
For WX5S (at W6YX Stanford Univ.).
Mark "Mork" Aaker K6UFO
k6ufo at arrl.net
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QSO/Pref by hour and band
Hour 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm
D1-0000Z --+-- --+-- 39/29 73/43 --+-- 112/72 112/72
D1-0100Z - - 58/30 26/6 - 84/36 196/108
D1-0200Z - 31/18 45/17 12/6 - 88/41 284/149
D1-0300Z 16/9 59/25 14/7 - - 89/41 373/190
D1-0400Z 42/7 23/6 4/2 - - 69/15 442/205
D1-0500Z 21/5 41/8 - - - 62/13 504/218
D1-0600Z 24/3 13/4 - - - 37/7 541/225
D1-0700Z 16/5 8/4 - - - 24/9 565/234
D1-0800Z 12/1 24/2 --+-- --+-- --+-- 36/3 601/237
D1-0900Z - 26/1 - - - 26/1 627/238
D1-1000Z - 33/5 - - - 33/5 660/243
D1-1100Z 2/0 6/3 - - - 8/3 668/246
D1-1200Z 4/1 - - - - 4/1 672/247
D1-1300Z 4/1 5/0 - - - 9/1 681/248
D1-1400Z - 20/4 - - - 20/4 701/252
D1-1500Z - 9/3 7/7 - - 16/10 717/262
D1-1600Z - - 19/18 8/8 --+-- 27/26 744/288
D1-1700Z - - 24/16 23/20 5/4 52/40 796/328
D1-1800Z - - 30/11 19/5 15/4 64/20 860/348
D1-1900Z - - 38/8 51/8 - 89/16 949/364
D1-2000Z - - 30/3 53/3 - 83/6 1032/370
D1-2100Z - - 7/2 45/5 15/5 67/12 1099/382
D1-2200Z - - 35/8 22/3 2/0 59/11 1158/393
D1-2300Z - - 34/3 24/6 - 58/9 1216/402
D2-0000Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 29/3 --+-- 29/3 1245/405
D2-0100Z - - 12/0 15/1 - 27/1 1272/406
D2-0200Z - - 31/6 - - 31/6 1303/412
D2-0300Z - - 31/4 - - 31/4 1334/416
D2-0400Z 6/1 33/3 - - - 39/4 1373/420
D2-0500Z 1/0 6/2 - - - 7/2 1380/422
D2-0600Z 9/0 10/2 - - - 19/2 1399/424
D2-0700Z 7/1 4/0 - - - 11/1 1410/425
D2-0800Z 5/2 3/1 --+-- --+-- --+-- 8/3 1418/428
D2-0900Z 1/0 15/2 - - - 16/2 1434/430
D2-1000Z - 7/2 - - - 7/2 1441/432
D2-1100Z 8/1 19/4 - - - 27/5 1468/437
D2-1200Z 13/3 17/4 - - - 30/7 1498/444
D2-1300Z 8/1 13/1 4/0 - - 25/2 1523/446
D2-1400Z - 7/2 14/4 3/0 - 24/6 1547/452
D2-1500Z - 4/0 41/25 15/11 - 60/36 1607/488
D2-1600Z --+-- --+-- 46/23 33/17 --+-- 79/40 1686/528
D2-1700Z - - 19/5 44/20 3/0 66/25 1752/553
D2-1800Z - - 8/2 11/1 - 19/3 1771/556
D2-1900Z - - - 43/3 26/2 69/5 1840/561
D2-2000Z - - 8/0 36/4 13/2 57/6 1897/567
D2-2100Z - - - 23/1 18/1 41/2 1938/569
D2-2200Z - - 23/2 19/4 1/0 43/6 1981/575
D2-2300Z - - 21/1 18/1 - 39/2 2020/577
Total: 199/41 436/106 642/233 645/179 98/18
80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total %
NA 179 239 363 338 74 1193 59.1
AS 18 163 112 160 0 453 22.4
SA 0 6 16 20 21 63 3.1
OC 1 7 9 15 3 35 1.7
AF 0 2 2 7 0 11 0.5
EU 1 18 140 105 0 264 13.1
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