Tuesday, February 28, 2023

WQ6X Wanders through a Weird dual-Contest Weekend

For 2023, the final contest weekend in January brought disparate pair of radiosport events:
The CQ-160 Cw contest and the Winter Field Day (WFD).  While K6PO and N6KI ran the
CQ-160 contest from Station-2 at the WA6TQT Super Station, there was some down time
on Friday/Saturday evenings and after midnight on both days, giving WQ6X the opportunity
to make another 160-meter QRP run from the Anza station.

During Saturday and Sunday in the daytime, WQ6X ran QRP-Cw in the Winter Field Day
(WFD) event; mostly on 10-meters, but a handful of contacts on each of the lower bands.
As it turns out the WFD would not LoG properly in the version of N1MM+ in use @W7AYT
(running a "broken" WIN-7 has rev-locked N1MM+).

For the WFD event, the new MFJ IntelliTuner beautifully tuned ALL the antennas at the W7AYT
site giving a more accurate 5.0-watt indication than the FT-2000's power level display.  When the transceiver indicates 5-watts output, in fact, the power-level (shown by the tuner's wattmeter) is between 2.5 ==> 3.0 watts.


There really isn't a lot to say about the CQ 160 contest other than the fact that running QRP
power into a full-size Tri-Square array found many operators reporting that it sounded like I was running an amplifier.  Once the scores were posted to the 3830 Scores website, it would seem
that WQ6X took 6th-place overall, 5th-place for USA and 1st-place west of the Mississippi - NoT
too shabby for just ad-libbing it from the 1st-QSO.

DiD YOU work the Winter Field Day or CQ 160 contest?

Is WQ6X in YOUR LoG/

Aug-30 NEWSFLASH:  
The CQ magazine contest write-up ([CLICK HERE] to read it) paraphrased a quote from the logfile entry SOAPBOX (a good reason to ALWAYS write a SoapBox entry for EVERY contest entry).



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