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Subject: [RTTY] ARRL RU VE6YR
From: Rfmandmpm@aol.com (Rfmandmpm@aol.com)
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 03:02:29 EST
It was a great contest with lots of activity. There were a lot of new 
stations discovering the great group of operators who enjoy RTTY. Welcome 
aboard. Did you know that there are people like AA5AU Don and GU0SUP Phil and 
countless other operators, with or without websites, who constantly provide 
help so we may improve our skills?
I was pleased to see so many friends and familiar callsigns. DX to EU was a 
bit disappointing. I managed to work all 48 states, DC, plus Alaska and 
Hawaii for the first time. Power output was about 500 watts on all bands 
except 10 meters. My amplifier just does not like my 10 meter antennas and 
keeps tripping out. It seems that 50 watts into my vertical worked as well as 
my beam, but many stations could not hear my weak signal on 10 meters. I hope 
most of you copied my call correctly. I saw it coming back as VE6HR, CE6YR, 
WE6YR to name a few, even when I tried to correct them. A couple of DX 
stations  did not like my 599 AB exchange and insisted on my serial number. 
Lots of competition for frequencies. I was crowded out several times, but that
 is the way it goes. One station must have thought this was the sprint where 
you make one call, then QSY. He answered my CQ, then he started calling CQ. I 
moved to another band and a few minutes later, he tried it again, without 
success.
Thanks to our sponsor, ARRL, and to all those who participated in the 
contest.

Call used: VE6YR
Location:  AB
Power:     HIGH

Entry Class: Single Op, All Band, HP

Band    QSOs    Pts     Sta   Prov    DX
 80        104      104             
 40          91        91             
 20        297      297          
 15        284      284          
 10        141      141         
-----------------------------------------------------------
Total     917      917       49      9       32
-----------------------------------------------------------


Claimed Score: 82530

See you in the next one,    73  VE6YR   BOB

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