CQ RTTY WPX CONTEST as WS5J

WS5J (Operating) and WA5FWC

WS5J, WA5FWC, W3JC and I worked the CQ WPX RTTY Contest last weekend at Gary WA5FWC's QTH. Condition were not the best. Murphy struck right from the beginning, we had a problem with the New USB to serial port it was keying the FSK with garbage. After some reading I loaded the EXTFSK dll from MMTTY and FSK started working.  We lost about four hours from the beginning of the contest.

We started out on 20 meters could find a good spot to call CQ so we searched and ponced for a little while then went to 80 meters. On 8 meters we WA5FWC has a 4 square antenna. Quite a bit of noise was heard because of the thunderstorms to the north. We worked a quite a few Europeans and lot of US and Canada.

After playing out 80 meters around Midnight local time I went down to 40 meters. Because of my unfamiliarity of the switching system at WA5FWC, I made a mistake and continued to use the 80 meter 4 square. The amp loaded up with no issue and the SWR was less than 1.5 to 1. Worked about 250 Q's that way.

Saturday was almost all 15 meters with a little 10 meters. We moved to 40 meters around 8 PM local using the 40 meter inverted V at 125 feet and worked a large pile up for over 3 hours. Had 2 hours of 125 Q's or better then the Storm noise came back up. We went to 80 and worked through the noise to work q's but never had a good run.

Sunday we had a run on 15 meters in the morning. When I came back to operate I searched and pounced on 15, 20 and 10 meters for multipliers. Around 3:30 pm local I started calling cq on 10 meters and worked 50 Japanese stations for a group of added mults.

I good time was had by all!


CQWPXRTTY Score Summary Sheet

Start Date : 2013-02-08

CallSign Used : WS5J
Operator(s) : WA5FWC, N3BUO, W3JC, WS5J

Operator Category : MULTI-OP
Band : ALL
Power : HIGH
Mode : RTTY
Default Exchange : 001
Gridsquare : EM12MM

ARRL Section : NTX
Club/Team : DFW Contest Group
Software : N1MM Logger V13.2.0




Band   QSOs    Pts    WPX
3.5     226        592    117
7        265        806    112
14      295        517    96
21      584      1223   246
28        90       194    41
Total 1460    3332   612


Score : 2,039,184
Rig : Yaesu FT-990

Antennas : 2 Element Homebrew Quad, 4 Square 80 meters, Inverted V 40 meters

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Date : 2013-02-10 Signature :