Hello group,
good propagations on saturday and lousy ones on sunday combined with a
medium scale participation were the basics of an interesting weekend. On
saturday morning, 6 hours after the start, I hoped to get about 11 or 12
million points. 24 hours later I didn't believe to reach my result of the
last year of 8.6 million points. Here are the results:
-+- ANARTS RTTY CONTEST 2003 -+-
Sponsored by Australian National Amateur Radio Teleprinter Society.
CALL: DL6JZ Country:
DL
Single OP., All Band
QSOs Points DX Call Areas
80m: 49 198 23 1
40m: 99 661 33 5
20m: 336 4292 56 25
15m: 125 1927 41 16
10m: 9 147 6 1
Total: 618 7225 159 48
Continents: 6
Total multipliers: 207
VK bonus points: 1700
Score: 8975150
Station Description: FT-1000MP + h.m. PA (400 watts)
Antenna(s): 3 ele Tribander/dipole
Operators: DL6JZ
Remarks: I like this contest very much. One of the reasons is
that
there are no restrictions for the break times. But I
believe
it could be a good idea to add the following passage to
the
rules: Every working period must be at least one hour
long.
The following advantages allowed me to reach my number of points of the last
year:
- better receiving capabilities (MMTTY vs. KAM)
- better radio (FT-1000MP vs. TS-570)
- more comfortable software (WriteLog vs. WF1B)
Highlights: AH8LG as a for ever new one, FO5PS and TI4DJ were new ones in
RTTY.
Lowlight: Very poor or no real openings to W and JA on 15 mtrs. The activity
on 80 mtrs was lower then the conds on this band!
There was a broad discussion about the using of the real call area number or
U.S. stations in this contest. From my point of view as a European the rank
order for answering this question should b:
1. ham spirit
2. ham spirit
3. ham spirit
4. contest rules (are the call areas mults or the DXCC countries only?)
.
.
.
999. FCC rules, which do not request but allow the using of portable call
area designator.
>From the point of view of the other contest competitors it would be the same
to sign as K4ABC, who is situated in W6 (and not K4ABC/6) as GU0SUP would
sign as G0SUP! (sri Phil)
So thanks to all participants and hope to meet you in DL-RTTY-contest in
July.
73 + 55
Wolf, DL6JZ
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