ANARTS WW RTTY Contest
Call: ZL2BR
Operator(s): ZL2BR
Station: ZL2BR
Class: SOST LP
QTH:
Operating Time (hrs): 29
Summary:
Band QSOs Pts Mults
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80: 2 34 1
40: 44 1512 32
20: 188 7480 64
15: 85 2885 37
10: 3 65 3
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Total: 322 11936 137 Continents = 5 Total Score = 8,207,860
Club:
Comments:
Kia ora,
Another challening and interesting contest.
Highs, lows and other things:
NA 20m/15m better than last year.10m great signal from W2NDP...but no other NA
copied - hard to figure out.
All EU zones 14/15/16 contacts down on last year.JA contacts - twice last years
total.
Still too many stations with big mouths and small ears around, strange how the
same old stations, a lot of them running low power and modest antenna set-ups
come back top me after my first call, but some strong signal S7/9 stations can
never seem to copy me no matter many times I call. Seems to be the same ones
every contest.
VK bonus points - best ever, more VK's active. 5-bander with KH6ND again.
Number of contacts and multipliers up on last year, contact points down a bit.
Missed out on an African contact - path did not open - haven't heard the ZS6DN
beacon for some months now. Kept a close watch on the packet spots, but when
CN8LI was spotted the freqs were empty here. Pity that EC8AUZ cannot operate on
20m.
Overall very enjoyable - thanks to Colin and ANARTS for organsing a contest that
evens things up a bit.
And now for your amusement, some trivia:
I got to thinking, wonder how many times in 29 hours I called CQ - so I
converted the MMTTY receive window text file to Excel file, did a sort, and this
is the result:
CQ calls - 2265
de ZL2BR calls - 774
I reckon my 322 contacts were about 50-50 running/s&p modes, which means that it
took 13.89 CQ calls to get a reply or 4.75 calls to someone else to get a
contact. Taking into account the time to send exchanges, repeats etc my total
transmit time came to around 7 hours out of 29 hours operating. Obviously I need
to do more transmitting in future contests, and less time listening!
73, Frank
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