Hawaii QSO Party - 2023
Call: N6RO
Operator(s): N6RO KO6M WU6P
Station: N6RO
Class: M/M HP
QTH: CA
Operating Time (hrs): 48
OpMode: SO2R
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs Dig Qs Mults
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160: 0 0 0 0
80: 5 1 0 3
40: 11 4 3 6
20: 12 12 6 9
15: 9 10 8 7
10: 9 5 3 6
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Total: 46 32 20 31 Total Score = 8,215
Club: Northern California Contest Club
Comments:
Aloha.
The N6RO HI-QSO-PARTY operator team this year is Ken/N6RO, David/KO6M and
Nian/WU6P, with support team members Bob/K3EST, David/WD6T, Chris/N6WM.
We have a good start, made Qs on 15m/20m/40m in the first hour, which is one of
few hours we have double digits hourly QSO rate. Rates dramatically goes down
from 2nd hour.
The other highlight hour is 19Z Saturday, the 10m is wide open and people is on,
and that brings the hourly rate back to 2 digits.
The bands are open to Hawaii, no major propagation or QRM/QRN issues. On high
bands, KW feels like an overkill. We can hear most of HI stations very well, and
worked all the stations we can hear.
CW made most of the Qs, followed by SSB, and with FT8 the 3rd, followed by
RTTY.
It is a fun event, slow pace. Some of the HI stations (KH6AQ, KH6LC, KH6TU etc.)
stay there CQing for a long time, so casual participates from out of state can
easily work a few Qs.
For an out-state station seriously chasing HI QSO Party, however, it is a
different story. We just do not have enough HI station on air to support the
full contest period. Not many new callsigns show up on CW or SSB. While for
Digital modes, there is a WW Digi contest on going in parallel, there is still
not many HI stations on. We also wish to see more HI M/M big guns on air, like
KH6LC did.
For contest organizer, please consider a team member comments, “I’d like to
see this contest pruned down to 30 hrs. That allows more low band time on second
night, and take Sunday off”
We end up made 98 QSOs, cover all 3 modes, 80m to 10m. Tried 160m but no
success. We worked HIL, HON, KAU, KOH, MAU, PRL, VOL and WHN, plus FT8 may give
us extra mults.
Thanks for all the stations out there putting out signals, and thanks for your
effort working us. Keep Contesting.
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