Location: Shelbyville, Indiana (near Indy, IN the Black Hole of RF)
QSOs Points Zones DX: States Multipliers Claimed Score
80m: 142 179 11 12 43
40m: 225 395 21 40 46
20m: 458 1131 28 76 43
15m: 721 1910 29 86 39
10m: 230 571 22 60 23
Total: 1776 4186 111 274 194 579 2,423,694
This was our 2nd attempt at M2, and again, great fun. Of course, we didn't
really have enough ops for a 48 hr contest, but we did the best we could and
improved last years score a lot.
Ops: John, WA9ALS, Alan, WD9GMK, and Wes KB9YTW (my son, 12 yrs old)
Station A: IC-756PROII with PW-1 (KW) to C31XR at 72 ft or HF9V
Station B: IC-706MKIIG (100W) to HF9V or R-7
We used networked WriteLog with MMTTY on both stations. We operated about
46 hrs. Both stations were not operating all of that time. For more
details and a breakdown of Qs by station and operator, see
http://www.qsl.net/wa9als/cqwwrtty2002_2.htm and the 2001 comparison is at
http://www.qsl.net/wa9als/cqwwrtty2001.htm.
I just can't emphasize how much fun it is operating multi! You have someone
to talk with about what is going on in the contest - good and bad!
Participation was incredible and propagation was great. I expected Sunday
afternoon to fill our screens with red dupes. While there were a lot, good
runs were still possible, and some green and yellow callsigns were still
easily found, right to the end.
At times we had a tough time in pileups with the 100W and vertical on the
high bands. Part of me wanted to put the 100W rig on the yagi and put the
QRO station on the vertical. Comments? Prop was so good, our STATES were
actually down by 6, whereas ZONES were UP by 9, and DX was UP by 39! Thanks
to Vern for Indiana (not easy!) and for the surrounding states. I don't
think we ever got WI.
Thanks to all for the Qs and WELCOME to all the new folks who participated
in this one (Quite a few didn't highlight in Don's Super-Check file for WL -
It will be interesting to see how many were new!) I thought operating style
was pretty good overall, and I only had to use the RIT a very few times.
Thanks to CQ/NRJ for another one of the great contests! 73 - John
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John - WA9ALS - VP5RY (2001)
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