CQ/RJ RTTY WPX Contest
Call: AA5AU
Operator(s): AA5AU
Station: AA5AU
Class: SOAB LP
QTH: LA
Operating Time (hrs): 30
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Points Prefixes
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80: 89 212
40: 178 624
20: 374 741
15: 424 900
10: 439 1105
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Total: 1504 3582 493 = 1,765,926
Club:
Comments:
The highlight of the weekend was working YA5T on 12M CW early Sunday morning
and hearing my call clearly! It pushed my regular restart time for the contest
back 15 minutes, but it was worth it.
I came a lot closer to last year's record than I thought possible. Condx were
not that great on Saturday. Sunday was much better. The low bands were great
Saturday night but there weren't a lot of DX stations to work. I couldn't seem
to get any real good runs going this year like I did last year. 40 and 80 were
terrible
Friday night. Usually the problem is noise down here, but this time it was just
plain poor propagation. Signals had terrible flutter. The PK232 ended up
pulling
out more copy than MMTTY (supporting Scot's earlier observation - the PK232
is still a worthy TNC).
This was the first time for using the MMTTY Plug-in for WriteLog as the main
RTTY engine for both radios/computers and it worked very well. On one radio
I did have dual transmit with MMTTY & a DXP-38 and that worked like a charm.
I used the WT4I Cabrillo Tools program to keep exact track of my off-time and
somehow, managed to work exactly 30 hours, 0 minutes - what a feat!
I guess the highlight of the contest had to be when EA8/DJ1OJ called me on 80M
and he was loud. I worked two EU on 80. I heard many more but they never
heard me.
The biggest boost in the score was due to a feature in WriteLog that GU0SUP
enlightened me to Friday before the contest that allowed me to easier handle
sending serial numbers when in QSO with 2 stations at the same time (not to be
confused with transmitting at the same time!). It helped tremendously but still
didn't stop me from hitting the wrong keys a few times. Sorry about that!
The most amazing part of the contest was having only 11 dupes in 1515 total
QSO's. It was another great contest and I was glad to be a part of it. Thanks
to everyone who worked me. Thanks to RJ & CQ for sponsoring it.
73, Don AA5AU
http://www.aa5au.com
http://www.geocities.com/writelog
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