WQ6X Works All Asian All the Way

Because of low sunspot activity, the All Asian contest GiGs have required a lot of work to accomplish our goals.

Last year, our 1st A-A Cw GiG from WA6TQT's location we DiD manage
to snag a 1st place.  

For 2022, one thing in our favor was a Solar Flux (SFI) of 144.

While a noticeable storm finally hit, the All Asian GiG was largely immune to its effects.

 

When I run as WQ6X, I am largely S&P'ing (Searching and Pouncing).  When running as NX6T most of the time is spent running frequencies, turning to S&P when things slow down or a juicy multiplier suddenly appears on the bandmap. Being a multiple-single operation allows the use of STN-1 to search for multipliers on another band while we run frequencies on STN-2, altho that almost didn't happen.

A glitch in the newly installed (but poorly tested) antenna switch facility reduced operations to STN-2 until late Saturday morning.  Thanks to the mid-level SFI, 20 meters was open to Asia most of the time, altho by 9am Sunday morning things died down considerably.

This year 160 and 10 meters were no-shows.  Friday evening, 80-meters didn't happen altho 24 hours later (10:30z Sunday) brought a line-up of callers for over 90 minutes.  With 80-meter QSOs worth 2-points, along with new multipliers on a new band, the time spent on 80 was well worth it.

15-meters was quite amazing in that it stayed open quite late and opened early on Saturday and Sunday.  40-meter propagation was quite good and amazingly there was no intentional QRM, altho the plethora or Indonesian Ssb stations in the Cw portion of the band is an ongoing, un-resolvable problem.

Despite having antenna stacks pointed to Asia, when running 1.3kw, even with a decent F/B ratio, Billy Bob and his brother Barney not knowing what "CQ AA" means would call in.  If they had listened before they transmit, they would've heard me working only Asian stations.  Sending "Asia Only" waved them off.  Eventually I changed the F1-CQ message to "CQ Asia" all but solving the problem, except for the "YB" Indonesian stations who still didn't get it and called in anyway.

When I call "CQ ASIA NX6T NX6T" do you not get that NX6T (USA) is NoT in Asia? 
If so, then you should NoT call me. 
Due to my running additional shifts for NX6T, finding extra time to sleep and poor conditions
in the SF east bay, only 8 QSOs made it into the WQ6X log.  At least I can say I gave it a GO.

We were fortunate in this contest that the horrible Space-WX conditions did not happen until
JUST AFTER the contest event was over.

Based on submissions to the 3830 scores website, it would seem that NX6T took 1st-place
worldwide for non-Asian stations in the multiple-OP single-transmitter.category.

 

 

 

 

 

 

What about YOU?

Did You give it a GO?

How many Asian multipliers made it YOUR LoG?