2003 -+- ANARTS RTTY CONTEST -+-
Sponsored by Australian National Amateur Radio Teleprinter Society.
W1ZT
Single OP., All Band, Single Radio
QSOs Points DX: Call Areas
80m: 23 206 5 10 Inverted Vee at 60 ft
40m: 154 2294 28 17 Rotary Dipole at 65 ft (Force 12 C4)
20m: 398 6204 53 19 2 El Yagi Force 12 C4
15m: 155 2670 41 8 "
10m: 8 179 5 0 "
Total: 738 1553
Continents: 6
Total multipliers: 186
VK bonus points: 2600
Score: 12,895,748
Station Description:
Icom 756Pro + SB220 500w
WriteLog + RITTY by K6STI
Remarks:
Thanks to ANARTS for sponsoring this interesting operating event. And
thanks to all who made it into my log. It was particularly nice to hear the
VK stations on 40m with conditions as poor as they were at the start of the
event. I love the point table and I know I can never compete with the South
American scores but it is fun to hunt the last (and maybe lost) continent.
Thanks to CN8LI for my only Africa. And thanks to Mike, K4GMH, for
encouraging me to keep going Saturday night. His encouragement produced the
hightlights below.
This has always been one of my favorite events and this year continued the
tradition. I missed last year due to travel but I planned on at least a
token effort this year. It turned out to be even more of an effort but lots
of highlights. The highlights covered the frustration of poor propagation.
Highlights:
After two years of interest in trying to make good on a comment from Bob,
ZL2AMI, that he heard a couple of us on 80m, I was finally able to make an
80m RTTY QSO with him in this contest. Signals from both ZL2AMI and KH6ND
were excellent on 40m which led to good copy after their respective sunset
for me on 80m. My thanks to both Bob and Mike for making the effort to
listen for us. I was was thrilled to be able to copy them so clearly as
well as being heard by them. In contrast, Europe was very difficult from my
QTH and only 3 stations were heard on 80m.
Signal strength from VK stations was equally good on 40m here but I did not
hear them until my sunrise. I look forward to listening for them as
sponsors and for the bonus points. But even with good signals from ZL on
15m I did not find the VK group on that band.
Lowlights:
10 meters continues to be open only to South America from my north
lattitude. Even 15 meters proved very difficult and fickle as the
propagation went up and down. Saturday was the best day for my log but
propagation favored the southern areas of Europe when it was open. 9A5W
seemed to have propagation all the time. My planning for a better 40m
antenna continues as conditions move to favor that band over 15m. There was
no JA opening here on 15m.
Strange lights:
With poor preparation and early in the contest, I decided to enable the
Friend file I picked up on the AA5AU web site. At first, I thought the
program was not working properly. I now see that the file is very large. I
can only guess that my processing speed is not sufficient to be able to pick
up a name beyond the callsign letter J or K in the list. I also observed
some very "formal" names in the list which don't match what I know to be the
daily names used by many stations. I recall someone had mentioned this on
the reflector some time ago but I had not done any editing of the file. I
will make some corrections for the next running of my station.
See you in the next one... after the USA ARRL Field Day.
George, W1ZT
80m Summary
Countries
9A DL KH6 LA ZL
Call Areas
K0 K1 K3 K4 K5 K6 K7 K9
VE3 VE6 VE7
40m Summary
Countries
4X 9A CE9 DL EA ER G GM HA I
KH6 LA LU OH OK OZ PA PY SM SP
SV UA UR YL YO YV ZC4 ZL
Call Areas
K0 K1 K2 K3 K4 K5 K6 K7 K8 K9
VK2 VK3 VK6
VE1 VE3 VE6 VE7 VE9
20m Summary
Countries
4X 9A CN CT CX DL EA ER ES EU
F FO G GI GM GU GW HA HB HK
HR I KH6 KP4 LA LU LZ OE OH OK
OM ON OZ PA PY S5 SM SP SV T9
TI UA UA9 UN UR XE YL YO YU YV
Z3 ZC4 ZL
Call Areas
K0 K1 K2 K3 K4 K5 K6 K7 K8 K9
VK2 VK4
VE1 VE2 VE3 VE4 VE6 VE7
JA1 JA3
15m Summary
Countries
4X 5B 9A A4 C3 CE CM CN CP CX
DL EA F FO G GM GU HA I KH6
LU LZ OE OH OK ON PA PY S5 SM
SP SV T9 TI UA UR YL YU YV ZC4
ZL
Call Areas
K0 K1 K4 K5 K6 K7 K9
VE6 VE7
10m Summary
Countries
CE CX LU PY YV
Call Areas
None
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