ARRL RTTY Roundup
Call: P49X
Operator(s): W0YK
Station: P49Y/P40L
Class: Single Op HP
QTH: Aruba
Operating Time (hrs): 24
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs
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80: 306
40: 705
20: 1020
15: 826
10: 16
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Total: 2873 State/Prov = 58 Countries = 76 Total Score = 384,982
Club:
Comments:
These results, and the great time I had, are a tribute to the ever-increasing
number of RU participants, especially the casual operators. This is a team
effort because of the endless pileups created by the multitudes.
Going into this year's event, I worried about living up to last year's results.
But after putting 733 duped contacts in the log in the first four hours, I had
very different thoughts. How could I hold on to this tiger's tail for another
20 hours?! And, with this level of activity, could the 3000-QSO mark be
broken? At 5Z, when the rate has normally dropped off, it was still averaging
120/hour. But, with 1665 QSOs in the log, I needed a break and had to take six
hours off sometime anyway. I find high-rate RTTY contesting much more tiring
than CW.
Normally, I take a full six hours off as in Sweepstakes, but this year I
experimented with two shorter breaks divided by a stint on 40 and 80 to see
what could be scared up in Oceania and the Far East around 6am local. And,
just like last year, I couldn't sleep anyway with my adrenalin overload.
During this time, I did pick up three mults that didn't appear elsewhere in the
contest for me and I maintained a 65/hour rate for 80 minutes. The three mults
were worth 63 QSOs to me, so my equivalent hourly rate was over 100. I guess
it was a wash, and it gave me something to do since I wasn't sleeping. I only
planned on about 30 minutes, but couldn't bring myself to walk away.
Unlike last year, when my Sunday afternoon rate stayed up closer to my average,
this year was more typical and fell off. The last four hours were really down
and I wish I could have traded one of those hours for staying on during the 06Z
and maybe even the 07Z hour. But, second guessing is always easier after the
contest and overall I'm pleased with my choices.
Another choice was 10 meters on Sunday. I didn't spend time checking 10 meters
on Saturday because I was confident there would not be enough activity to
warrant leaving 15 or 20. But, on Sunday, I checked all day and found little.
LV9V was on a lot and I heard a few US CQs occasionally (W5AP is one I recall)
but it didn't seem like there would be enough to work. Yet, I also knew that a
seemingly "dead" band can come alive if people show up and start transmitting.
I CQ'd for 20 minutes and worked 16 stations. Along with my periodic checks,
that was enough to tell me 10 meters probably wasn't going to help this year.
I recall at least one station (AA8LL - thanks!) who worked me on five bands.
(I'm eager to run a log analysis and see how many worked me on four bands ...
it seemed like a lot. There were 164 last year.)
I'm pleased, and somewhat surprised, that the mults were higher this year. I
missed ND, LB, YT, NU and NWT. I also missed PJ2 which I think was on. 80
meter Europe was incredible. Signals were as loud or louder than on 40. Noise
level was low and the vertical (thanks to W2GD the week before) was hearing as
good as the Beverages. The limiting factor on 80 was the lack of active
stations to work. I even picked up some nice EU mults via 80.
Thanks again to all who called in, multiple bands, to entertain me this
weekend!
73,
Ed - P49X
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Hour 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm OffTime
D1-1800Z - - 88/24 105/23 - 193/47 193/47
D1-1900Z - - 100/6 90/8 - 190/14 383/61
D1-2000Z - - 92/4 80/2 - 172/6 555/67
D1-2100Z - - 95/4 83/2 - 178/6 733/73
D1-2200Z - 28/12 76/3 32/0 - 136/15 869/88
D1-2300Z 13/0 85/7 26/2 - - 124/9 993/97
D2-0000Z 55/1 87/6 --+-- --+-- --+-- 142/7 1135/104
D2-0100Z 40/3 67/2 - - - 107/5 1242/109
D2-0200Z 44/0 95/0 - - - 139/0 1381/109
D2-0300Z 58/0 89/0 - - - 147/0 1528/109
D2-0400Z 44/1 72/1 - - - 116/2 1644/111
D2-0500Z 7/0 14/0 - - - 21/0 1665/111 49
D2-0600Z - - - - - 0/0 1665/111 60
D2-0700Z - - - - - 0/0 1665/111 60
D2-0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 1665/111 60
D2-0900Z - - - - - 0/0 1665/111 60
D2-1000Z 17/0 30/2 - - - 47/2 1712/113 10
D2-1100Z 15/0 29/1 - - - 44/1 1756/114
D2-1200Z - - 8/0 7/0 - 15/0 1771/114 60
D2-1300Z - - 62/3 63/1 - 125/4 1896/118
D2-1400Z - - 71/2 71/6 - 142/8 2038/126
D2-1500Z - - 73/0 41/2 - 114/2 2152/128
D2-1600Z --+-- --+-- 55/1 60/0 --+-- 115/1 2267/129
D2-1700Z - - 51/1 48/0 - 99/1 2366/130
D2-1800Z - - 52/2 34/0 16/0 102/2 2468/132
D2-1900Z - - 44/0 55/0 - 99/0 2567/132
D2-2000Z - - 40/0 33/0 - 73/0 2640/132
D2-2100Z - 4/0 55/1 24/0 - 83/1 2723/133
D2-2200Z - 66/0 26/0 - - 92/0 2815/133
D2-2300Z 13/0 31/1 6/0 - - 5781 2873/134
Total: 306/5 705/32 1020/53 826/44 16/0
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80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total %
NA 256 473 816 685 15 2245 78.1
EU 47 199 178 128 0 552 19.2
SA 2 7 8 6 1 24 0.8
OC 0 8 0 2 0 10 0.3
AF 0 3 3 3 0 9 0.3
AS 1 15 15 2 0 33 1.1
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80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total
4J 1 1
4X 1 1
8P 1 1 1 2 5
9A 2 2 2 6
CM 1 1
CN 1 1 2
CT 1 3 2 1 7
CU 1 1 2
DL 7 25 27 21 80
EA 2 10 5 5 22
EA6 1 1
EA8 2 2 2 6
EI 2 1 3
ER 1 2 3
ES 3 3
EU 2 2 2 6
F 1 9 9 5 24
FG 1 1
FM 1 1
G 1 12 13 4 30
GI 1 1 1 1 4
GM 1 1 1 3
GU 1 1
GW 2 2
HA 1 6 5 4 16
HB 1 5 1 2 9
HC 1 1
HI 2 2
HK 1 1
HR 1 1 1 3
HZ 1 1
I 3 14 11 20 48
IS 1 1 2
JA 9 12 1 22
K 234 433 740 625 15 2047
KH6 1 2 3
KL 1 1 2
KP2 1 1
KP4 1 1 1 3
LA 1 3 1 5
LU 2 3 1 1 7
LX 1 1
LY 1 2 2 5
LZ 1 2 2 2 7
OE 2 1 3
OH 1 3 6 5 15
OK 3 8 8 4 23
OM 4 3 1 8
ON 3 2 1 6
OZ 2 2
P4 1 1 1 1 4
PA 2 5 7
PY 1 2 2 5
S5 3 9 5 3 20
SM 5 5 8 5 23
SP 3 15 14 10 42
SU 1 1
SV 2 1 3 6
T9 1 1
TA 1 1
TF 2 2
UA 5 13 11 4 33
UA9 1 2 3
UK 1 1
UN 1 1
UR 5 23 10 8 46
V2 1 1
VE 19 30 63 55 167
VK 3 3
XE 6 4 1 11
YB 2 2
YL 1 3 5 9
YO 1 1 1 3
YU 1 6 2 2 11
YV 1 2 1 2 6
Z3 2 2
ZC4 1 1 2
ZL 2 2
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