CQ Worldwide DX Contest, RTTY
Call: 8P2K
Operator(s): 8P6SH
Station: 8P6SH
Class: SOAB(A) LP
QTH: 8P
Operating Time (hrs): 24
Summary:
Band QSOs State/Prov DX Zones
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80: 0 0 0 0
40: 138 29 40 13
20: 165 33 47 14
15: 404 41 64 22
10: 300 26 51 16
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Total: 1007 129 202 65 Total Score = 1,041,876
Club:
Comments:
This was supposed to be a casual effort as I was officially baby-sitting this
week-end. Main goal was to beat my previous modest assisted SOAB (H) effort
back in 2002 with low power. Great conditions and sitting in the chair every
available opportunity saw me overhaul that score just as day 2 was starting. I
kept re-setting my goals and in the end felt pretty good about making 1000
Q's.
I do not have a resonant 80m antenna and that hurt the score as far as mults
was concerned. Also currently have an automatic bandpass filter set and a
number of mono-band units which limits my configuration to 40, 20 or 15 from
the right rig.
I finally started to fine-tune my messages and on day two I was very happy with
my ability to move stations from one rig to another using writelog's %k variable
which transmits the other radio's frequency. My buffers are still a bit too long
but everything worked fine. The fkeys utility tied it all together.
Thanks to the many stations who moved from one band to another - not just for
mults but towards the middle of day 2 I was moving any station I hadn't worked
on the other band. There were times when I should have moved stations for a
third band but the manual filters made that impractical.
Station includes (2x) FT 950, C3 with seperate feedlines and a full-size
DXEngineering 40m vertical. The innovantenna 10m antennas were not available
for this contest. All switching is done using using uHam MK2R+ and two Station
Masters along with WX0B Six-Pack. First contest with a new berverage but this
was just used for quick a/b checks - will really help with 80m from EU.
Great contest - wish I could have played competitively but duty called. Glad to
dish out the 8P mult especially on 10m. The table below shows where my QSO's
came from.
80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total %
EU 0 57 80 209 202 548 54.4
AS 0 2 2 16 5 25 2.5
NA 0 72 78 165 75 390 38.7
AF 0 1 4 3 3 11 1.1
SA 0 6 1 9 14 30 3.0
OC 0 0 0 2 1 3 0.3
Look forward to seeing you all in the next RTTY contest.
73's and GL
Dean - 8P2K / 8P6SH
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