CQ WW RTTY Contest
Call used: KE1FO (@K1TTT)
Location: MA
Entry Class: Multi Op, Single Xmit, Low Power
Band QSOs Pts QTH DX Zones
80 178 278 39 33 11
40 236 408 44 46 16
20 370 834 38 71 22
15 133 265 22 41 17
10 16 37 3 9 6
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Total 933 1822 146 200 72
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Claimed Score: 761596 <-New USA Record?
Software: RTTY by WF1B, Version 3.2A
Power Output: 100
Antennas: 10 - 6el @ 90', 4el west, 4el south
15 - 8el @120', 4/4/4 eu, 4/4 west, 4 south
20 - 6el @150', 4el @ 60', 4el eu, 4el eu
40 - 2el @150', 2el eu, low dipole, 4 square
80 - 2el eu @ 150', 4 square
Ops: KE1FO, K1TTT, KT1M, WM1X, Lenny (can't remember his call)
Club Participation: YCCC
Comments:
Went into this contest just wanting to beat last years score of about
450kpts, and wanted to win US again. I didn't arrive at K1TTT's with
the TU and software until 8:30 local and we didn't get on the air until
01:00z at least. Paket wouldn't work with WF1B and WF1B wouldn't talk
to the TS-870, but we just went with it. Never did get packet or the
radio interface to work. Still we were able to muster almost 1000q's
with only 100 watts. Dave's (K1TTT) antennas didn't hurt any. Thanks
to Dave for the use of his station again this year.
Highlights: The great conditions, being able to run on every band, and
having the mults call us! Fun 20m opening about midnight and 1 am local
Saturday night. Worked VK, ZL, FK8 all for double mults, all with one
call. Dave has some propigation software that predicted that opening,
and it sure was there, with good signals both ways. Also being almost
150 q's ahead of last year by 8am local Saturday morning was great. The
extra q's were due to KT1M operating all night both nights. Passing
600q's 24 hours into the contest was great too.
Look for us again next year, 77 more stations need to work us so we can
break 1000 q's. Thanks to all the stations who worked us and who we
worked. 73 de KE1FO
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Al, KE1FO, ex. KE6BER mailto:ke1fo@contesting.com or ke6ber@tiac.net
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