CQWW WPX Contest, CW - 2023
Call: WQ6X
Operator(s): WQ6X
Station: KN6NBT
Class: SOAB QRP
Class Overlay: TB-Wires
QTH: Ramona, Ca
Operating Time (hrs): 18:18
Remote Operation
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 0
80: 5
40: 50
20: 125
15: 115
10: 31
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Total: 326 Prefixes = 222 Total Score = 151,404
Club:
Comments:
This was the 1st WQ6X QRP WPX contest - EVER
In between sleeping and OP-shifts with NX6T, as WQ6X I found 18 hours
to run remotely from KN6NBT's QTH in Ramona California. This QTH is where
the exiled tower trailer from NX6T in Fallbrook is now living happily.
The same 3-el Stepp-IR and Mosley Shorty-40 was reprised at 55' atop
the motor-crank tower. For 80-meters, a double-bazooka at least got
us on the band - barely. 80 & 10 meters were BiG disappointments
for this GiG. On the PLUS side, having 15-meters open until well
after 05:00z and 20-meters open to somewhere all night, were AWEsome!
A K3/0 mini in my Alameda office allowed me to get started shortly
after the contest started. Then, for the rest of the weekend, I ran
the NX6T and WQ6X remote operations using a standard K3/0 box at W7AYT's
QTH in Concord (CM78xx). If my signal seemed a bit uncharacteristically
choppy, we can blame the random bursts of internet-pulsing.
While running QRP was indeed a challenge, I am indebted to those kilowatt
stations who sometimes stood by and gave me a momentarily QUIET frequency
to slip my QRP-signal into.
LooK for a write-up on this soon at: http://WQ6X.Blogspot.com
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