First time for major effort in the Russian WW contest. I like the rules
(don't have to use the /6 after my call) and there seemed to be quite a
bit of activity for a summer event, although most Eu stations were weak
and I had to ask for lots of repeats. Sorry, guys.
Worked an all time new RTTY country, Iceland, and almost had another,
India. VU3YFD was calling CQ but I could not get him to answer in spite
of him being fairly strong. In fact, he was so strong I wonder if he
might be a slim. Anyone know? His call printed cleanly several times,
so I'm sure it wasn't a busted VE3. Darn.
I was surprised to see other stations listing QSOs on 80 or 40. I spent
about an hour doing mixed CQ/S&P and never heard anyone. Bad timing,
probably. Only three on 10 and they were all stateside and all pretty
weak. Bring on fall/winter!!
The Details:
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2001 Russian RTTY WW
Call used: W7TI
Location: California, USA
Single OP, all band, one radio
Entry Class: Single Op, All Band
Band QSOs Pts QTH DX
80 0 0 0 0
40 0 0 0 0
20 128 915 11 27
15 141 1165 14 34
10 3 15 0 1
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Total 272 2095 25 62
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Claimed Score: 182265
Power Output: 1500
Time of operation: 17h 01m
Radio Stuff:
TX/RX: Kenwood TS-870S
Amp: Commander HF-2500
Antennas: 20/15/10 - Cubex 4-el quad @ 80 feet
80/40 - W9INN multi-band dipole @ 70 feet
Software: RTTY by WF1B ver 5.02 + RiTTY by K6STI ver 4.51
73, Bill W7TI
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