CQ WW RTTY Contest 1997
Call used: W3LPL
Location: MD
Entry Class: Multi Op, Multi Xmit
Band QSOs Pts QTH DX Zones
80 489 804 52 58 17
40 709 1352 51 81 26
20 1104 2540 52 98 35
15 483 1003 41 76 25
10 132 195 26 23 14
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Total 2917 5894 222 336 117
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Claimed Score: 3978450
Software: RTTY by WF1B, Version 3.1c
RITTY by K6STI, Version 2.15
CT 9.27
Power Output: 1500
Club Participation: Potomac Valley Radio Club
Operators: K3MM, W3EKT, K4GMH, NE3H, ND3F, N3OC, NO2T, N3UN
Station: 80M - TS950 Various 2el 80 meter wire quads
40M - FT1000MP (2) LPL 3el 40M Yagis at 100/200'
20M - FT1000MP 5el LPL Yagis at 200'
(2) 5el LPL at 50/100' to EU
(2) 5el LPL at 50/100' rotatable
15M - TS850 6el LPL at 200'
(2) 6el LPL at 50/100' to EU
(2) 6el LPL at 50/100' rotatable
10M - TS850 7el LPL Yagi at 200'
(2) 7el LPL at 50/100' to EU
Monoband 3-1000 amps on all bands
Comments: RTTY is definitely on the rise! With the threat of a
solar
disturbance looming for the weekend, we were
particularly
aggressive, expecting the worst. Luckily, it was
relatively
minor, and created some really great conditions for the
first
24 hours. While conditions to Europe were just
moderately
good, the conditions to Asia, especially Japan were
phenomenal! I've never worked so many 20M JA's on RTTY!
After the first 24 hours, we had already surpassed our
final
score from '96 and by Sunday morning had broken our
World
Record set in '92! Conditions on Sunday were rather
flat,
but we coasted along to the finish, frantically passing
states to 10 meters trying to fill in multipliers on a
band
with very spotty propagation. We had problems running
WF1B
networked, so we ended up double logging everything on a
backup CT network. Unfortunately, this made for another
mess to sort out the logs...but maybe next year...
73, Ty K3MM
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