WQ6X Wangles SP-DX RTTY and the Ssb SPRINT

Being a 5-weekend month this year, April brings us a handful of low volume contest GiGs to round
out the month.  For the 4th weekend, the SP-DX RTTY contests were the GiGs of choice, altho for both events, it is amazing that WQ6X managed to submit any reasonably competitive scores at all.  The BARTG-75 Sprint contest ALSO happened that weekend, however, only ONE contact found its way into that LoG.

Essentially, radiosport-wise the weekend involved 3 disparate contest events:

• [X] - SP DX RTTY Contest (24 Hours)
  
• [X] - NA SPRINT Ssb Contest (4 Hours)
  
• [X] - The BARTG-75 SPRINT Contest (4 Hours)

As you can see from the above Space-WX picture, solar calmness was not be found for the
April-ending weekend.  Maybe that explains only ONE (1) QSO made it into the BARTG-75 LoG.  HuH?  Wassup with that?

The NA SPRINT Ssb GiG was ALSO a disappointment.  Running direct from W7AYT's Concord Signal-vortex QTH, a WHOPPING 32 contacts actually made it into the log - at LEAST I can say
that I was there.

The SP DX RTTY contest results nearly mirrored Ssb SPRINT, putting only 30 actual contacts
into the RTTY Log.

This is what the main computer screen(s) LooKed like when it was all over.

DiD YOU run any of the contest events?

Is WQ6X in any of YOUR LoGs?

WQ6X FAKES another FLQP QSO Party

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This year, the month of April gave us 5-weekends, giving the Florida QSO Party
(FQP) it's own unique weekend.  It could well be argued that I actually spent more
time  researching Florida counties and the FQP event than I actually spent in the
operator chair looking for Floridians and scoping out internet bandmap SPOTs.

LooKing up the callsigns
of various non-Floridian stations who ran county expeditions from needed Florida counties, I came up with the CW Forever graphic (left) as it was submitted by W9MET. 

 

QRZ.Com is like a box of chocolates - Ya' never know what'cher gonna GiT.  While I am an ardent
Cw fan, although I don't personally use decoder hardware/software, I defend other operators right to
do so; what is MOST important is that the message be decoded (and passed on if necessary) - the means used to accomplish that aim, are in fact - SECONDARY.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When it was all over, WQ6X managed a WHOPPING 35 QSOs in the log on 20,
15 & 10 (40 and 80 don't open well for left-coasters before the contest ending time). 
Fortunately, we get another shot at Florida on Sunday morning to early afternoon;
unfortunately, we still never get a 40-meter opening on the Left Coast.

Just like I said above, it would seem that I spent more time preparing for and writing this
BLOG entry than actually working the Florida QSO Party - GO Figure.  Oh Well.  Nevertheless,
I learned a LoT about Florida county layout; and as we say every year - "There's always next year".

DiD YOU Work the FQP Florida QSO Party?

How many Florida counties made it into
YOUR LoG?