As always Don congratulations on a great score.
One comment on the 30 hour limit for SOs in WPX RTTY. As someone who is
much closer to 60 than 50, I love the 30 hour time limit! In my younger
days I did 48 hour contests with no sleep or only a few cat naps. Now,
there is no way between age and health, that I can do that. So I vote
for the 30 hour limit or creating an OF (old fart) category limited to 30
hours. If' I'm still around in 15 or 20 years it will be interesting to
see how you feel about this, but maybe you will be one of the luck few
that age doesn't slow down.
73
W0ETC
On Sun, 9 Feb 2003 22:40:58 -0600 "Don Hill AA5AU" <aa5au@bellsouth.net>
writes:
> CQ/RJ WW RTTY WPX Contest
>
> Call: AA5AU
> Operator(s): AA5AU
> Station: AA5AU
>
> Class: SOAB HP
> QTH: LA
> Operating Time (hrs): 30
> Radios: SO2R
>
> Summary:
> Band QSOs Pts
> -----------------
> 80: 136 312
> 40: 252 874
> 20: 349 570
> 15: 595 1281
> 10: 486 1253
> -----------------
> Total: 1818 4290 Prefixes = 524 Total Score = 2,247,960
>
> Club:
>
> Comments:
>
> Congrats to Mike, K4GMH, on a great effort and what should be a new
> USA record.
> I had hoped to beat him but despite nearly 300 more Q's, I was not
> able to
> overcome his excellent low band totals. The low bands were a
> disaster for me.
> Everything was fluttery on 40 meters and only could hear the regular
> strong
> Europeans. 80 was pretty much a washout for DX despite low noise.
> I know the
> importance of a good low band performance in this contest, so it
> didn't surprise me
> to see it was my Achilles Heel. Wonder what the SO2R foes are
> thinking now? An
> East Coast SO1R QTH is far more advantageous than two radios!
>
> I didn't get the 0700Z EU/JA opening on 20 meters the first night
> and it really
> killed me. I stayed up waiting for it but it never came in. So 20
> meters was a
> pretty poor band for me. I think I only worked two JA's on 20.
> Luckily 10 and
> 15 were very good on Saturday. However, Sunday was a different
> story especially
> when the K index jumped to 4 at EU sunset. I took my last two hours
> of rest and
> was happy to see the K back at 2 when I got back. But it was too
> late. The
> damage was done. The better condx late Sunday helped create a nice
> opening to
> JA on 10 in the last couple of hours where I finally got much needed
> multiplier help.
>
> Speaking of rest periods, I absolutely hate them. 18 hours of good
> contesting
> gone to waste doing something useless, like sleeping! I'd like to
> see it
> changed to at least 36 hours of operating, giving us two good nights
> of 6 hours sleep.
> But I wish I had a million dollars too.
>
> All in all, I'm very pleased with my effort. Everything ran to
> perfection. I
> used WriteLog beta 10.40A with MMTTY 1.62 and there were absolutely
> no problems
> at all. Two Kenwood 870's driving two Ameritron AL-80B's at 500
> watts on all
> bands. Even used a Belkin USB-to-serial adapter to generate FSK on
> the B radio
> and it worked great. It's now a permanent part of my set-up.
>
> Biggest surprise of the contest was being called by N1RCT. I almost
> fell out of
> my chair. I hope this is a sign that Dick will be back. Second
> surprise was
> being called by A52B on 20 meters. Lowlight was not be able to hear
> VR2BG the
> many times he was spotted. Also, no YB or 9M2.
>
> Congrats to P43P on what should be new World Low Power record
> breaking my 2001
> score. And to Wil, HP1/DJ7AA, who will no doubt have the new NA
> Single Op High
> Power record, if not the world record. No records for me this year,
> just a smile on
> my face knowing I did my very best and got to meet a lot of old
> friends once again.
>
> Thanks to everyone for all the QSO's. I'd go to bed now but I'm not
> tired. Heck,
> I had more rest this weekend with a contest than I normally do
> without one. That
> ain't right!
>
> CU in NAQP next I guess. Getting to be so many of these things
> now.
>
> 73, Don AA5AU
> http://www.aa5au.com
> http://www.geocities.com/writelog
>
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