[TVARC] YBDXPI FT8 Contest - 2022 ND4G SOLP

[Rich Erlichman]

Well, another weekend of contesting. I did NOT spend much time with it, 
however. Seems like there must have been a solar storm or solar flairs, 
or something. The SFI was just over 100 which is way down from a week 
ago, and the Sunspot number also down in the low 50's, high 40's. That 
said, not a single YB station heard, considering it was their contest.
In fact, I heard more FT8 activity in the regular FT8 band segments, and 
very little activity in the special segments that were listed in the 
contest rules.
I think my Flex has a duty cycle issue and when it got hot it gave me 
some issues with drop out. I need to investigate this. As a work around, 
I ran my KPA500 amp using 5 watts of drive from the Flex, giving me the 
100 watts output so I can stay in the Low Power category. Between my 
equipment issue, and the band conditions, made for a not a stress free 
time spent.

73,

Rich, ND4G



                     YBDXPI FT8 Contest - 2022

Call: ND4G
Operator(s): ND4G
Station: ND4G

Class: Single Op LP
QTH: NFL
Operating Time (hrs): 8.6

Summary:
  Band  QSOs  Prefixes  Countries
---------------------------------
   160:
    80:
    40:   19      18        11
    20:   59      55        25
    15:   33      32        17
    10:     6        6           6
---------------------------------
Total:  117     111      59  Total Score = 14,280

Club: The Villages Amateur Radio Club

Comments:
FLEX-6600M -> MFJ-998RT Remote Tuner -> 20' Stealth vertical flagpole
            |-> 6 Band Cobweb antenna up 14'

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