Hi Phil. I appreciate (and hopefully others do too) you running on 10 and 15
meters where we could find you instead of hoping you would find us! hi
I had a great time during the contest in a part-time effort and ran SO2R high
power (which is rare for me). I had some great runs on both 10 and 15 meters
and on 20 meters toward the end. Don't remember which day, I thought BV100 was
calling me on ten meters on my run frequency but it turned out that he was
calling CQ. I had to wait a few minutes for his signal to build, but I did
work him and QSY'd. VU2NKS was a new band country for me on 10 meters on
Saturday.
But the best contact of the weekend had to be when an FR4 station called me
(can't remember if it was 10 or 15 meters) and told me I was his first ever
RTTY contact. That was way cool!
JARTS has always been one of my favorite contests. I will be asking for logs
from JARTS participants so I can do a report on the age of RTTY contesters. I
will announce this when I'm ready. Right now, please do not send me any logs.
I think it would be interesting to see what the average and mean age would be
and break it down into continents, etc. I worked 5or 6 YL's too.
73, Don AA5AU
>________________________________
>From: Phil Cooper <pcooper@guernsey.net>
>To: RTTY@contesting.com
>Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 1:37 PM
>Subject: [RTTY] GU0SUP JARTS SOABLP
>
>Hi all,
>
>Firstly, I have to say that was a real blast! I had a clue conditions would
>be good, as I spent a little time on 10m and 12m on Friday afternoon, and
>was enjoying working into W6/7.
>Well, I say "good", but an SFI of 138 isn't really good. It's better, but
>not like the last peak when it was over 200 for months on end.
>
>Due to other commitments, I wasn't able to start the contest till around
>lunchtime on Saturday (about 1200UTC), and the higher bands were buzzing
>nicely. I was also aware that I needed to get a few other things done around
>home, so this was only really supposed to be a part-time playing session for
>me.
>
>When I started, 20m was poor though, with few W/VE's around.
>After spending a little time seeing what was around, S&P'ing as I went, I
>started CQ'ing on 15m. This was good, and produced some nice runs for me.
>However, I started to feel something was wrong, as folk coming back to me
>weren't responding with their usual promptness. I hit ESC part way through a
>CQ, only to find SV2EAG supposedly working folk that were clearly calling
>me. His exchange also seemed to vary, so sometimes he was sending 599 56 56,
>and sometimes 599 46 or 48.
>I kept on going though, and eventually he seemed to tire of the game and
>went away.
>I realise I could have been on HIS frequency, but there was nothing apparent
>when I started, and nor did I hear anyone call him while I set things up,
>and before I started CQ'ing.
>
>10m was the place to be though, so I also spent some time there calling CQ,
>and was rewarded with some good ones. It was great to get called by VP8NO
>for a new band-slot too.
>
>At some point in the evening, I had had enough fun for the day. 10 was
>starting to close, 15 was open, but I could nothing new to work, and 20m was
>like a graveyard - only a few weak EU signals around.
>40m was very dead too, with only one single RTTY station audible. As for
>80m, well, I thought I must have disconnected the antenna.
>
>On Sunday morning, I woke up early, but decided to have another hour in bed.
>When I got to the shack, once again, 10m was the place to be. And endless
>(so it seemed) stream of JA's to work.
>I did pop down to 20m around 0700UTC, and found Bill W6WRT CQ'ing like he
>was an EU station! However, he was the only W audible at the time (0724UTC).
>After such fun on Saturday, I thought Sunday would be the same, but I kept
>getting visits from the gremlins. I had RF get into the microKeyer II, the
>PC crashed, the mouse froze, and the RTTYRite window with it, but everything
>else was fine. Careful use of Alt-Tab enabled me to shut down in a
>controlled manner, and a reboot fixed that.
>
>On both 15m and 10m, while CQ'ing, I had a tuner who kept sending a single
>tone on my mark frequency, and although it disrupted a few contacts, I
>managed to keep going.
>I also had another guy who decided to be a nuisance to me. I was called by
>EA2DDE, and when I went back to him, he didn't come back. I sent the
>exchange a few more times, but nothing, so I cleared his call and hit QRZ. I
>had several callers, including EA2DDE.
>I decided to work one of the JA's, and then I see that EA2DDE is sending him
>a report.
>This meant several AGN's on both sides, but I eventually made it. So I send
>TU & QRZ, only to have the same thing happen again with the EA2.
>This went on for around 40 minutes before he finally accepted an exchange
>from me.
>
>So, gripes over. Despite those problems, and only intending to play for a
>short time, I did quite well.
>All 10 W call areas on 10 and 15, but only 5 on 20m.
>
>Highlights:
>Many, such as being called by VP8NO on 10m, AL9A on 15m, plus TI, HI and a
>few other nice ones.
>Also managing to work J39BS on 10m.
>I also took some time out on Saturday afternoon to work HP1/IZ6BRN on 12m
>RTTY, which was a new band-slot and band-zone for me. And that is already
>confirmed on LoTW too, which is even sweeter.
>I also worked many new (to me) callsigns, and I guess I was a new one to
>many of those. Wonder if the postman will be busy in the next few weeks??
>
>So, here is my claimed summary:
>Class: Single Op LP (around 80 watts)
>Age sent - 58
>Operating Time (hrs): 18
>
>Summary:
>Band QSOs Pts Mults
>------------------------------
> 80: 0 0 0
> 40: 28 60 22
> 20: 147 335 55
> 15: 186 453 65
> 10: 210 575 66
>------------------------------
>Total: 571 1423 208
>Total Score = 295,984
>
>40m Summary
>Countries
>4L DL EA ER EU HA I LX OH OK
>ON PA S5 SM SP SV TA UA UA9 UR
>Z3
>
>Call Areas
>K4
>
>20m Summary
>Countries
>9A A6 CN DL DU EA EI ER ES EU
>F GI HA HB HS I KL LA LY LZ
>OE OH OK OM OZ PA S5 SM SP SV
>UA UA2 UA9 UN UR YB YL YO YU Z3
>ZC4
>
>Call Areas
>K0 K3 K4 K6 K9
>VK4
>VE2
>JA1 JA3 JA4 JA5 JA6 JA7 JA8
>
>15m Summary
>Countries
>4X 9A CN DL EA ER ES EU HA HZ
>I IS KL KP4 LA LY LZ OE OH OK
>OM PY S5 SM SP SV SV5 TA TF TK
>UA UA2 UA9 UN UR VU YB YL YO YU
>Z3 ZC4
>
>Call Areas
>K0 K1 K2 K3 K4 K5 K6 K7 K8 K9
>VK3
>VE2 VE3 VE4 VE7
>JA0 JA1 JA3 JA4 JA5 JA6 JA7 JA8
>
>10m Summary
>Countries
>4X 9A CE CN CT3 CX DL EA EA8 ES
>EU F G GM HI HK HZ I J3 KP4
>LY LZ OH OM OZ PY S5 SM SV TA
>TF TI TR UA UA9 UN UR VP8 VU XE
>YB YO YU ZC4 ZS
>
>Call Areas
>K0 K1 K2 K3 K4 K5 K6 K7 K8 K9
>VE2 VE3 VE4
>JA0 JA1 JA2 JA3 JA4 JA5 JA6 JA7
>
>So, thanks to all for the amazing fun, and my log is finally on LoTW. It
>appears to have taken quite a time before it was accepted, so I guess that
>was due to the servers being busy after the WAG contest.
>
>73 all
>
>Phil GU0SUP
>
>
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