Rich KL7RA invited me down to participate in this year's ARRL DX CW, but work demands and outrageous air fares between Fairbanks and Kenai kept me grounded. This was a pity, because I always enjoy operating CW with Rich and Wigi AL7IF. As a consolation, I decided to press KL2R into service, going it alone. At the start, I hadn't yet decided to go for single- or all-band entry, but the hopping bands soon convinced me the latter was the way to go. I'm glad I did.
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 1 1
80: 19 8
40: 119 40
20: 755 58
15: 612 55
10: 12 6
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Total: 1518 168
Total Score = 764,568
This was the first time ever KL2R had points on all bands. Conditions were unexpectedly good.
I was never able to hear a significant number of "workable" stations on Top Band. Propagation to the northwestern US seemed to peter out early in the evening. The brief, late morning/early afternoon openings on 10m gave some real encouragement to seek out multipliers, although I had to do it quickly, or overall rate would suffer. On Sunday, 10m seemed to be ducting to the Caribbean and South America with very few US and no Canadian stations heard at my QTH during my band checks.
Alaska was well-represented, especially KL7RA, AL1G, KL8DX, and AL9A loud and clear on most bands.
KL7RA and I had a funny, inadvertent duel of sorts on Friday afternoon. I was running about 130 per hour on 20m when KL7RA rolled in about 100 Hz up from me, apparently unaware of the action I had going. Suddenly, I realized stations weren't calling me, but KL7RA instead. One CQ from the power house of Kenai, and they took my frequency AND my pileup as well! As I told them by email, I was glad I could "chum the waters" for them.
All in good fun, and I had a really good laugh.
Monday, February 22, 2010
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Monday, February 15, 2010
SO2R and Multi-Two that Much Closer
What little time I spent in the shack recently was centered on getting the second operating position, KL2R-B, ready for a chance to try M2 in WPX RTTY. Alas, a last-minute PC failure on KL2R-A and repair delayed operation in earnest until Saturday morning. Dan KL1JP did much search-and-pouncing and rode the 15m opening pretty hard. While he did that, I managed to get KL2R-B on line and Win-Test viewing the spots and the log. After Dan left, I cleaned up a few and enjoyed working into Europe on 20m around 0600-0800Z. Aurora and fluctuating Kp caused some declining conditions commencing Saturday night. Conditions were never great on Sunday to the Lower 48.
Contest : CQ World Wide WPX Contest
Callsign : KL2R
Mode : RTTY
Category : Multi Operator - Single Transmitter (MS)
Overlay : ---
Band(s) : All bands (AB)
Class : Low Power (LP)
Zone/State/... :
Locator : BP64KU
Operating time : 14h31
BAND QSO DUP PFX POINTS AVG
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80 8 0 1 34 4.25
40 14 0 11 60 4.29
20 293 0 181 654 2.23
15 61 0 39 141 2.31
10 0 0 0 0 0.00
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TOTAL 376 0 232 889 2.36
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TOTAL SCORE : 206 248
Dupes are not included in QSO counts neither avg calculations
Operators : N1TX, KL1JP
Contest : CQ World Wide WPX Contest
Callsign : KL2R
Mode : RTTY
Category : Multi Operator - Single Transmitter (MS)
Overlay : ---
Band(s) : All bands (AB)
Class : Low Power (LP)
Zone/State/... :
Locator : BP64KU
Operating time : 14h31
BAND QSO DUP PFX POINTS AVG
------------------------------
80 8 0 1 34 4.25
40 14 0 11 60 4.29
20 293 0 181 654 2.23
15 61 0 39 141 2.31
10 0 0 0 0 0.00
------------------------------
TOTAL 376 0 232 889 2.36
==============================
TOTAL SCORE : 206 248
Dupes are not included in QSO counts neither avg calculations
Operators : N1TX, KL1JP
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