Hi Frank,
I must tell you that the problem of not enough stations for a 48 hours
contest stands on the European side also.
I made about 420 QSOs/330 QTCs during my first 19 hours of activity and
about 220 QSOs/220 QTCs during the second 17 hours. And I saw the same
relations in my log in 2003. The sunday is very hard for my nerves.
But this year I participated in the low power category, with 100 watts
output. The FT-1000MP allowes it. But I didn't any try to get ZL on 40 m
with 100 watts and a 80 mtrs long wire antenna. 10 QTCs are worth more
than one mult, hi.
Hope to meet you in WAEDC RTTY 2006 again.
73 + 55
Wolf, DL6JZ
-----Original Message-----
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 12:05:10 +0100
Subject: [RTTY] (WAE RTTY ZL4BR
From: "Frank Hunt"
To: rtty@contesting.com
Decided to be a bit more serious this year. Score was best yet, but
could have
done better! Spent too much time chasing mults, old habits die hard I
guess,
instead of chasing QTC's. Only a few stations offered to sent qtc's to
me and I
ended up sending over twice as many as I received. A few stations
declined my
offer of sending them qtc's, like the LU who said copy was very poor,
then I
suggested he turn his beam to ZL, which he did and then reported that my
signal
was now 10 over 9 !
As expected 40m was the best band for qso's but not for qtc's, with good
runs to
Eu, NA and JA. 15m after sunset was good both evenings to Eu but the
rest of
time it was slim pickings on that band and 20m.
I'm starting to seriously believe that maybe there are just not enough
stations
active in this contest for it to warrant being a 36/48 hour show and
maybe 24
hours would be long enough. Okay I realise that according to the 2004
results
2532 stations were in 636 logs, but it would also appear from the
results, that
70% of them are running low power, which on RTTY probably means 25-50
watts,
that together with the fact that a good percentage will be using simple
wire or
trap vertical antennas on the high bands means that they don't work many
non-Eu
stations, especially when propagation is poor. So whilst 36/48 hours
might suit
Eu's, it probably doesn't make a lot sense to non-Eu stations, unless
your
callsign starts with 7X, H2, ZC or CT3.
Call: ZL4BR
Class: Single Op HP
QTH: New Plymouth
Operating Time (hrs): 32
Summary:
Band QSOs Pts QTCs Mults
-------------------------------
80: 2 2 8
40: 208 268 60 189
20: 144 314 170 106
15: 170 470 300 98
10: 1 1 2
-------------------------------
Total: 525 1055 530 403 Total Score = 425,165
Station:
TS-2000 & AL-80B, running around 600w
3-el tribander at 10m
40m GP at 6m
73, Frank ZL4BR
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