Call: W1DX Operator(s): W1AN Station: W1AN Class: SO(A)AB HP QTH: CT Operating Time (hrs): 19 Location: USA Club: CT RI Contest Group Summary: Band QSOs State/Prov DX Zones -------------------------------------------- 80: 85 31 17 7 40: 318 45 44 14 20: 447 35 72 23 15: 119 6 42 16 10: -------------------------------------------- Total: 969 117 175 60 Total Score 745,536
This was the first contest after nearby lightning took out the K3, several PC’s, TV, Tivo and maybe undiscovered as of yet electronics. This was to be a burn in/trial run of the K3 after replacing the IO boards. The main shack logging PC lost two Com ports in the hit so I reconfigured to use its spares. All appeared well at contest kickoff, but it soon became clear later the PC would not accept audio, locked upped repeatedly, and after several reboots acted as if it was possessed. I had enough for the first night and in the morning and after changing out the PC and transferring the log all was “well” for the remainder except for S9 noise and intermittent internet. Happily the K3 survived the burn-in.
Enjoyed the contest and the Patriots game and others on Sunday. RTTY lets you do that!
Jeeeez, John, sorry to hear of the lightning strike. As you well know, I went thru a similar episode two years ago. It can be a bummer…but glad to hear the station was quickly on the road to recovery.
Nice also to see posted (separately) score from K1JSM. Nice going John.
Also glad to see the return of Rick KI1G who I saw spotted often while I was chasing the DX-peditions on CW/SSB. Hope that means we will see Rick more often again.
Anybody else QRV? — John, W1XX
Follow-up on KI1G: From 3830Scores, Rick is only a smidget behind AA3B for top score HP (A). Rick is ahead
by a mile on multipliers but so far… behind on Q volume. Not over yet. Atta go, Rick!!!
Why is everyone posting scores individually?
OK John I’ll post it here!
K1SX
SOAB QRP
Band QSOs Pts ZN Cty SP Pt/Q
3.5 9 11 2 2 8 1.2
7 46 80 7 10 18 1.7
14 88 207 9 29 15 2.4
Total 143 298 18 41 41 2.1
Score: 29,800
About 7 hours, I think
In the past I’ve found RTTY contesting with 5 watts and a wire to be frustrating even though there’s something addicting about it. Just seemed that only a minority of stations had me strong enough to copy. But this time things were much better and I actually was having some fun, especially on 20 where I seemed to get heard well both in Europe and out west. Also it was the first time I really had N1MM and fldigi working together, for nice lazy logging. Good time, and I didn’t even bother to look at spots, just picked off what I could find. I even ran a few at the end. I couldn’t do anything to the south tho. No SA qsos until P49X with 10 minutes to go. And I can’t believe it, but not a single zone 8. VK4OH was workable on 40 Sun. morning, but I could not cvrack the pileup. Only KI1G for members –only about 20 mins. spent on 80m. 73, Dave
First time in the WPX RTTY in a while. I was on and off over the weekend. Spent much of the time outside. When I got tired of the fall yard work, I came in and got on for a bit. I heard/worked Rick KI1G and W1DX. Did no 80 meters seeing as antennas are in a bit of disrepair, which I hope to remedy by month end.
Call: KS1J
Operator(s): KS1J
Station: KS1J
Class: SOAB LP
QTH: RI
Operating Time (hrs):
Summary:
Band QSOs State/Prov DX Zones
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80: 0 0 0 0
40: 57 19 21 10
20: 135 13 43 12
15: 11 1 11 8
10:
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Total: 203 33 75 30 Total Score = 69,414
Club: CT RI Contest Group
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