2022 CQ WPX RTTY Contest AK1W
CQ WPX RTTY Contest - 2022 Call: AK1W Operator(s): K5ZD Station: K5ZD Class: SOAB LP QTH: MA Operating Time (hrs): 27.1 OpMode: SO2R Summary: Band QSOs ------------ 80: 241 40: 385 20: 483 15: 527 10: 68 ------------ Total: 1704 Prefixes = 733 Total Score = 3,360,072 Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
Bud AA3B has proven he can whip me in any RTTY contest so I was looking to try something different this year. With the improving solar cycle, I was hoping the high bands would be good enough to support some fun operating as low power. Unfortunately, they weren’t that good.
Started 30 minutes late. The contest was a grind from the beginning. Very few sustained runs all weekend. Spent a lot of time calling people. Lots of guys CQed in my face. Meant to stop before the end to watch the Super Bowl pre-game, but did that while operating. Some good mults called in during the last hour on 40m.
It felt like activity was down, but you wouldn’t know it from the QRM on 20m. I know my station is very loud on 20m. I couldn’t make a dent. Band was loaded from 14078 to 14150. Skip was short so the Europeans were having their own contest. I tried CQing high and low with no real success. Ended up calling a lot of guys.
Best part of the weekend was the openings to Japan. 15 meters was great both Sat and Sun evening. Even better on 15 than on 20.
As always, it was fun and motivating to watch the online scoreboard. The scores in WPX go up exponentially so when you get behind, it is hard to catch up!
Kudos and respect to all you guys that do RTTY contesting with 100 watts. I don’t think I have the patience for it. 🙂
Station
2x K3
80m: 4 square, dipole
40m: 40-2CD @110′, sloping diploe to west
20m: 205CA @100′/50′
15m: 155ca @66′/33′
10m: 6-el @ 90’
South: Th7DXX @ 40′
WriteLog software, MK2R+ SO2R box
Rates
QSO/Pref by hour and band Hour 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm Off D1-0000Z 5/4 15/15 1/1 --+-- --+-- 21/20 21/20 30 D1-0100Z - 36/30 32/29 - - 68/59 89/79 D1-0200Z 23/15 41/28 5/3 - - 69/46 158/125 D1-0300Z 28/12 66/39 - - - 94/51 252/176 D1-0400Z 37/10 35/19 - - - 72/29 324/205 D1-0500Z 31/12 20/7 - - - 51/19 375/224 D1-0600Z 19/14 14/10 1/1 - - 34/25 409/249 D1-0700Z 2/2 1/0 - - - 3/2 412/251 52 D1-0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 412/251 60 D1-0900Z - - - - - 0/0 412/251 60 D1-1000Z - - - - - 0/0 412/251 60 D1-1100Z 4/1 8/4 18/13 - - 30/18 442/269 22 D1-1200Z - 8/4 40/29 13/9 - 61/42 503/311 8 D1-1300Z - 1/1 - 1/0 - 2/1 505/312 60 D1-1400Z - 4/0 26/14 72/41 - 102/55 607/367 D1-1500Z - - 26/12 53/26 4/1 83/39 690/406 D1-1600Z --+-- --+-- 8/3 29/14 16/7 53/24 743/430 D1-1700Z - - 5/3 31/12 15/11 51/26 794/456 D1-1800Z - - 20/11 7/1 1/1 28/13 822/469 31 D1-1900Z - - - - - 0/0 822/469 60 D1-2000Z - - - - - 0/0 822/469 60 D1-2100Z - - 38/11 25/14 - 63/25 885/494 9 D1-2200Z - - 16/10 28/19 9/1 53/30 938/524 D1-2300Z - - 7/2 3/2 - 10/4 948/528 49 D2-0000Z --+-- 4/4 5/1 --+-- --+-- 9/5 957/533 51 D2-0100Z 38/5 25/5 4/1 - - 67/11 1024/544 D2-0200Z 23/8 27/13 - - - 50/21 1074/565 D2-0300Z 1/1 5/5 - - - 6/6 1080/571 46 D2-0400Z - - - - - 0/0 1080/571 60 D2-0500Z - - - - - 0/0 1080/571 60 D2-0600Z - - - - - 0/0 1080/571 60 D2-0700Z - - - - - 0/0 1080/571 60 D2-0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 1080/571 60 D2-0900Z - - - - - 0/0 1080/571 60 D2-1000Z - - - - - 0/0 1080/571 60 D2-1100Z 17/0 8/1 5/3 - - 30/4 1110/575 22 D2-1200Z 7/2 6/1 31/15 2/0 - 46/18 1156/593 D2-1300Z - - 28/11 19/9 - 47/20 1203/613 D2-1400Z - - 12/2 69/24 - 81/26 1284/639 D2-1500Z - - 15/6 56/14 - 71/20 1355/659 D2-1600Z --+-- --+-- 11/2 47/9 --+-- 58/11 1413/670 D2-1700Z - - 34/9 27/4 3/1 64/14 1477/684 D2-1800Z - - 33/8 11/4 14/5 58/17 1535/701 D2-1900Z - - 7/2 9/0 - 16/2 1551/703 44 D2-2000Z - - - - - 0/0 1551/703 60 D2-2100Z - - 6/0 2/2 4/2 12/4 1563/707 43 D2-2200Z - 8/1 36/5 22/5 2/1 68/12 1631/719 D2-2300Z 6/1 53/10 13/3 1/0 - 73/14 1704/733 Total: 241/87 385/197 483/210 527/209 68/30
Best 60 mins: 102 starting at 12-Feb-2022 13:59
Worked on 5 bands:
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