[NLRS] Ac0ra/r cqwwvhf

[Wyatt Dirks]

Thanks Jon

I'll try to answer all the question I've just read from everyone.

First I like my 9700 and it pairs well with the 7300. Both seem to have
pretty good rx.  I still hear stuff I can't work running kw.  And that
isn't the 1 hit wonders on Ft8 either.

I have never ran 2 wsjtx on one pc so I'm not the guy to ask for that.

For this contest I run one laptop per radio with wsjtx running.  Then I
manually do all the logging on the 6m laptop using n3fjp.  I try to keep
things as simple as I can so if something quits I can fix it easily.  Also
carrying two laptops I always have a spare.

Also note I run both bands same time which is allowed in rover class for
this contest and all others.  It's not allowed for single op class in this
contest but you could one 1st seq on one band and 2nd the other. In arrl
contest class doesn't matter you can have a transmitter on every band at
same time.

In rover I do get some interference on 2m from 6m depending on direction of
antennas so I assume truck is messing with things there.  At home I use
same exact antennas and never have any interaction.  I do use a band pass
filter on 2m.

This setup keeps you busy with both bands going.

Hope this helps answer a few questions.

73 Wyatt

On Tue, Jul 21, 2020, 9:20 AM Jon Platt via NLRS <nlrs at mailman.qth.net>
wrote:

> Great score and nice rover set up Wyatt.   How do you like the Icom 9700
> ?   Also, does anyone know if you can set up two independently running
> versions of WSJT on a PC, one dedicated to say 6m and the other to 2m, thus
> avoiding the need for two PC's?
> 73, JonW0ZQ
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wyatt Dirks <dirkswyatt10 at gmail.com>
> To: NLRS List <nlrs at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Mon, Jul 20, 2020 11:14 am
> Subject: [NLRS] Ac0ra/r cqwwvhf
>
> What a fun contest despite the lack of good 6m es.  I think after a few
> years I finally got the 6m and 2m rover setup how I really want it for this
> contest.  Using 6m5xhp at 25ft and 2m7 just above that with kw on easy
> band.  Then I have 7300 and 9700 for radio each with there own laptop.
> This year I finally got a working so2r box which unfortunately didn't get a
> ton of use since ssb was mostly not happening.
>
> My basic strategy was to just steadily work what ever I could the entire
> contest.  And since 6m never really opened that's about how it went.  I
> operated from each of the 8 grids for 2 hours except En60 and en31 each got
> 3 hours. So slow and steady with average of 35 qs an hour is how I got to
> my totals.
>
> Below is the breakdown of qs/mults per grid plus the totals and other
> random data.
>
>
> Em69
> 6m-50/41
> 2m-32/23
>
> Em59
> 6m-44/32
> 2m-31/24
>
> En50
> 6m-41/32
> 2m-34/26
>
> En60
> 6m-58/41
> 2m-48/34
>
> En31
> 6m-55/43
> 2m-21/16
>
> En32
> 6m-54/42
> 2m-21/17
>
> En42
> 6m-45/34
> 2m-24/19
>
> En41
> 6m-48/31
> 2m-18/14
>
> Total
> 6m qsos-395
> 2m qsos-229(x2 for points= 458)
> Qso points-853
> 6m mults-296
> 2m mults-173
> Total mults-469
>
> Grand total score- 400,097
>
> Other data points
> Arrl scoring-114,192
> Unique 6m grids-131
> Unuque 2m grids- 52
>
> 6m ssb qs-54
> 6m digi qs-341
> 2m ssb qs-38
> 2m digi qs-191
>
> Had a really fun time in this contest again this year but hopefully next
> year we can get some usable 6m eskip for high rate ssb runs.  And for all
> the Ft8 haters who think that doesn't happen please think again.  Looks at
> my June contest results from Kg5cci multi op where I almost logged 1000 6m
> ssb qsos.  The band conditions have to be there or ssb runs just won't
> happen.  And 98% of people on 6m don't have good enough stations to work
> 400 or 500 miles on ssb tropo so Ft8 is much better for that.
>
> 73 Wyatt
> Ac0ra/r
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