CQ WW RTTY WPX (2014)

CQ WW RTTY WPX Contest

Call: NR4M
Operator(s): K7SV K4GM NR4M KK4YTF KA4RRU NN4RB K4SO K4EC K3UI KD4AKC G2YL KC4QP W4IM K4MIL N3ZV
Station: NR4M

Class: M/U HP
QTH: VA
Operating Time (hrs): 48

Summary:
Band QSOs
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80: 681
40: 1141
20: 1107
15: 1251
10: 994
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Total: 5174 Prefixes = 1129 Total Score = 16,831,132

Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club

Comments:

Wow! What a weekend.

Found the bands extremely friendly, so everyone found a place to operate.
There seemed to be an almost limitless supply of new stations the whole weekend.

Had two operators who had never operated RTTY at all, and one other that had done so one a limited, casual basis. Two others had never operated from the Goat Farm before, so there was there was a bit of a 'learning curve' for several ops.

The only problem we had was that we lost our Internet connectivity at abt noon local time on Sunday, so for the last 7 hours we had no direct connection. A couple of the ops wound up connecting to various spot sources via their smart phones, standing by the stations, calling out needed calls and their frequencies. Kinda reminded me of the days of VHF FM simplex spotting networks...

Even with that issue, we were able to make about 10% more Q's(5K+,)about 5% more mults and about 10% higher claimed score from last year.

One of our newly discovered 'secrets' to better score can be found at http://www.china-highend-hifi.com/prod0212111121.htm Was provided by KA4RRU. When place on the coax, it will 're-open' an otherwise, 'dead' band. Thanks, Mike. Price is right; I have ordered several. (yea, right...)

Nice to work familiar calls.

Thanks to everyone for the contacts.

73 de Steve, NR4M and the whole Goat Farm gang.