Hi all,
Wow! How nice to see the bands in reasonable shape! And there was a good
level of activity too, which always helps. This is my best ever SARTG entry
too. I started the contest at the beginning, and gave up at about 4am local
time (0300) as I was too tired, and in the second stint, I gave up about
2130 so that I stood a chance of being able to get up for the start of the
final session. In total, I worked for about 14 hours.
I did enjoy working KH6ND on 15m, and thanks for the points Mike!
There were a few new band-countries for me too, such as VP9/IK2RZP on 20m,
plus a few others.
I did work TZ6RD, even though they weren't in the contest, but I couldn't
pass up on that one.
There was some very odd propagation about, as I worked GM/ON/PA/F on most
bands, which is not normal.
Didn't manage to bag any VK or ZL, although I did see ZL2AMI and VK6GOM
being worked, but had no copy on them at all.
Plenty of new calls about too, which is good, plus a good few that have
changed callsigns.
Would any SP's please advise SQ7B that it makes life difficult when he calls
DE SQ7B, SQ7B, SQ7B, please! I did ask him to lose the comma, but I don't
think he understood.
So, here is what I managed:
QSOs Points DX: Call Areas
80m: 0 0 0 0
40m: 63 715 28 8
20m: 142 1620 45 12
15m: 161 1865 42 13
10m: 57 585 27 0
Total: 423 4785
Total multipliers: 175
Score: 837375
Station Description: Icom IC756 + about 60 watts
Antenna: 2 ele mini-beam + G5RV
Software: Writelog
Thanks to Ewe and the team for organising the contest, and to all for the
points.
Very best 73 de Phil GU0SUP
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