Mexico RTTY International Contest
Call: VA7ST
Operator(s): VA7ST
Station: VA7ST
Class: SO1R HP
QTH:
Operating Time (hrs): 12
Summary:
Band QSOs Pts Mults
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80: 56 163 5
40: 40 123 9
20: 205 621 47
15: 17 56 6
10:
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Total: 318 963 67 Total Score = 64,521
Club:
Comments:
* FT920 + SB221
* N1MM + MMTTY
* All-band vertical on ground
* 3 el. tribander at 45'
Flux at at 90, A=2 and K-1 so I expected pretty good conditions. They were
so-so, as it turned out.
CN8LI was like nextdoor in the first few minutes. An OH Express was going early
on, too, but not a lot of other EU heard on Saturday morning. By 2100z Saturday
conditions were weaker. SFI down to 87, A=5, K=1
40M wasn't too hot Sat. night, but 80M felt good. Watched a little corona light
up at the tip of my vertical's 80M whip with 700W applied.
Sunday morning 20M EU path was pretty good with lots of mults calling in
between 1500z and 1600z before the band moved. Finished up on 15M with a couple
of final XE mults. Good contest. Score up from previous years.
Year QSO Pts Mults Score
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2007: 318 963 67 64,521
2006: 312 920 54 49,680
2005: 271 816 55 44,880
2004: 74 0 20 4,540
318 Qs this year (not including dupes). What's with the chronic dupers? Work
'em anyway is a good policy, however, I suspect some dudes don't bother to keep
a log and roam around plugging anyone they hear, worked before or not. I'm
keeping a list to see if there are regulars. A genuiunely busted first Q is
fine to pick up later, but don't waste valuable time on a dupe Q signal check.
Looking forward to WPX RTTY. Won't have the 40M and 80M wire antennas redone in
time, but still hope to have a lot of fun with the junk in the air now.
Have ordered the MFJ 1026 noise cancelling box, so might have that going for
WPX -- hoping it'll help remove the horrible BC Hydro power line noise out of
due east on all bands. Their line noise expert is coming up from Vancouver
again in a couple weeks, but two trips so far over the past two years have not
found the actual noise source. Though candidates have been checked, the
debilitating noise continues. Third time lucky? Here's hoping.
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