Tuesday, January 30, 2024

WQ6X Works another Weird (but WooLY) Winter Field Day

The final weekend in January marked a "collision" of a number of disparate events beginning with
a remote run of the French REF contest Friday evening and wrapping up w/the end of the Winter
Field Day (WFD) on Sunday morning (just like the ARRL June FD).

Because the REF GiG [specifically] has no power classifications there was no real reason to run
QRP - what is the point of making a sacrifice when we get no credit for doing so?!  Essentially,
the REF GiG gave me something to do while waiting for operators on Anza STN-1 to wrap up
their evening run in the CQ 160 Cw contest.

At that point (shortly after 07:06z) I brought Anza STN-2 on the air and setup a CQ-160 run for about 95 minutes, long enough to put 24 QSOs in the WQ6X Log running QRP.  The corrupted phasing-lines on the 160 Tri-Square has yet to be resolved, leaving it a mystery as to which "direction" the antenna array is REALLY favoring - I would simply use the direction button that produced the loudest signal at any given moment in the contest.  If no reply, I would then try the other two directions.  

Eventually, most stations (due-east) went bedtime-QRT, leaving no one new to work.  After 3-hours sleep, I came back in time for points due-east to wake up and work me before their sunrise shuts down 160-meters on their end.  Late Saturday and early Sunday morning, equivalent op-tome was found, resulting in a ToTaL of 69 QSOs making it to the submitted Log.

For the Winter Field Day GiG, the best explanation for what happened can be found
in the 3830 Score Submission for this contest.



DiD YOU work the Winter Field Day and/or CQ W.W. 160 contests?

Is WQ6X in YOUR LoG?



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