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I switched antennas from vertical to horizontal to copy Jim’s signal but I couldn’t. I was in line to work another station when I saw Jim work him just before me. We have an ongoing saga to just work each other once in a contest. Saturday I ran around 250 Q’s and Sunday was good for another 350! Weird propagation (an A-index of 23!) on Sunday which was noticeable.Ī fun moment in this contest was the very close encounter with my friend Jim Wilson, K5ND. When I logged 100 Q’s in the PACC I immediately switched back to RTTY for the WPX. I switched back and forward from CW S&P and SSB and collect a poor 100 Q’s. But for this one contest I want to make an exception and plug in the microphone. In CW I’m not yet able to be in running mode and SSB is far from my favorite mode. It’s a unwritten rule to always participate as Dutch amateur, if only for a few Q’s. Because the Netherlands is small country, this contest is only successful if there are enough Dutch amateurs participating. PACC-contest is a 24-hour contest where you only work Dutch amateurs (PA) to collect all the Dutch provinces which are handed out as exchange. There was only one catch: in this same weekend the PACC-contest is organized. I think the current personal record stems from a PACC-contest a few years ago and was around 450 Q’s. RTTY operating just keeps getting better and better.This weekend I entered the CQ WPX RTTY contest with target to improve my personal total QSO-record in a contest.
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Wanted to get to the full 30 hours so kept grinding it out. 40m was in great condition, but the snow static was S9+10.
Didn’t try to manage my off times to any strategy, but was good to see Bud and I were off about the same hours.Īlmost quit with an hour to go due to snow static. Discovered that my 20m stack switchbox up on the tower has a relay problem.ģ0 hours of op time is just right. Never heard a signal on 10m (only listened once). Couldn’t make up the gap, but it was fun to have another element in the mix in addition to running two radios.īest DX QSO was having a JA call me on 40m. Turned it on and enjoyed seeing the RTTY RBN spots go scrolling by. About 20z Sat, I realized that WPX RTTY allowed single ops to use the cluster. I noticed that Bud had jumped way ahead of me on mults. Tough in WPX with the exponential score increase due to mults! By then AA3B was way ahead, but half of the fun of the scoreboard is to see if I could make up some ground.
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Plus enough frustration that I stopped to watch TV for awhile. I missed an hour of operating time in the first evening. Unplugged that and all the problems went away. Finally I figured out that it was the footswitch that was plugged into the YCCC SO2R box! Was costing me about 10 minutes each outage as I tried to unplug things in case it was RF.
This happened every 90 minutes or so until 18z Sat when I finally figured it out.
Had to reboot the computer to clear the problem. Several hours into the contest, the active radio was locked in transmit.
Planned to do about 20 hours, but got hooked watching the online scoreboard and chasing AA3B all weekend. I needed some contest therapy to escape the snow storms and work stress.