CQ WPX RTTY 2026 @ LX7I

16. Februar 202620. Februar 2026 DF7EE 0 Kommentare

Here we go again, 2026 starts with the CQ WPX RTTY Contest for me, operating LX7I again.

Before I signed up with Philippe for the contest, it was already clear that I could not do the full 30 hours, as I had some family asignments with the kids! Therefore I opted for the classic category and hoped I can make the full 24h.

I am QSL Manager from DARC F75, so I was on the monthy club meeting on friday and could not sleep before 21:00/22:00. So only about 3 hours sleep after a long week to start the contest.

The first 5 hours were great but when rates droppend I took a short nap for about one hour or so. Hours 7, 8 and 9 were great, then second nap. Hours 14-19 were great again, but rates really dropped off very sharp when EU primetime TV time started. I knew that I will have some off times tomorrow I made the big mistake to accept some low rate hours till 19 in total. Day 2 I managed to get the missing 5 hours in. I should have cut off earlier on Saturday as I had some hours left on Sunday.

Overall it was fun to operate LX7I again.

A big thanks to Philippe LX2A who let me operate his superstation again and again. As promised I did not break anything.

Here is the remote setup:

Dual screen main PC with two screens. Left SmartSDR 4.1.5 and control window for output power at the PXGL.
Right screen N1MM with 2Tone and MMTY. No cluster as I was unassisted.

The MS Surface on the left is for switching antennas and contoling anything else in Luxemburg.

All the ICOM radios had a break.

Sunday morning fresh to work.

There rere some really funny callsigns out there and some confusing ones:

Some good rates:

At the end I was happy with the result, even if it was not the perfect outcome. Lets see what this might be good for. I am happy with maybe TOP5 in classic.