CQ Worldwide DX Contest, RTTY
Call: ZB2TT
Class: SO(A)AB LP
QTH:
Operating Time (hrs): 37.3
Summary:
Band QSOs State/Prov DX Zones
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80: 8 1 7 4
40: 328 35 50 14
20: 670 37 59 19
15: 668 31 70 21
10: 31 1 19 14
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Total: 1705 105 205 72 Total Score = 1,478,722
Club:
Comments:
Rig: IC-7300 100w (SO1R)
Antenna 20m-10m: Hex Beam @9m / 29ft
Antenna 40m-80m: Folded 30m Dipole (ATU needed)
Software: N1MM (using MMTTY & GRITTY)
Nice to work many UK stations in the contest, thank you all for the QSOs.
Contesting from ZB brings a lot of challenges, little space and high population
density do not help for antenna space or QRM. CQWW RTTY SOAB excluding 160m
helps in this respect, I wish more contests had a 20m-10m category for those
who don't have acres of space and do not like single band entries.
Massively restricted antennas on 80m and 40m did not help my score,
congratulations to all of the 8 stations that managed to decode me on 80m my
ERP was probably less than a watt (NR4M your have some RX!)
10m brought short openings to EU and Central America, with South America very
loud for most of the contest. 15m was fantastic with massive signals from EU
and US bringing fantastic rates both days. 20m offered nice long path openings
to JA during the morning and runs into the US until late evening. 40m was
brilliant Sunday morning, loud west coast US and some very loud ZLs too.
Being low power with poor antennas also affected my mult score, for example
Sunday morning I could hear many Asian stations (most double mults) on 15m but
I was unable to break the pile ups. I also had rotator issues throughout most
of Sunday did not enable me to turn the beam, which was stuck to the south.
Both RTTY and CW are fantastic contest modes since the advent of skimmers and
the RBN, it brings a lot of technology into the contesting skill set.
Personally it was what has brought be back into the hobby after an absence of
almost 10 years.
Significantly less Caribbean operations on this contest, I hope all the ops
over there are able to get back on the air soon.
Overall a fantastic contest and hope to see you all in WAE RTTY.
73 DE ZB2TT / M0TTT
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