ARRL RTTY Roundup
Call: AA5AU
Operator(s): AA5AU
Station: AA5AU
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: LA
Operating Time (hrs): 24
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs
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80: 316
40: 641
20: 694
15: 277
10: 2
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Total: 1930 State/Prov = 58 Countries = 60 Total Score = 227,740
Club:
Comments:
What a great contest! I did not expect it to be so good but it was. It was
pretty much non-stop action but to me, Sunday was slow. I had a hard time
keeping the rate going all day Sunday. With the nice propagation numbers we
had, I would have expected more DX on 15 meters. 15 meters was better Sunday
than Saturday but it still seemed flat overall. 20 was good but the low bands
were fantastic!
I kept checking ten meters on Sunday but only worked two stations. I found
LV5V early and then later worked KU1CW on some weird path beaming west. I CQ'd
a few times but there was nothing there.
The rate was phenomenal for the first 12 hours. I normally take rest at 0600Z
but this year the low bands were so good I was going to go to 0700Z. Then we
had a momentary power outage at about 0620Z which really freaked me out. By
the time I was able to bring everything back on line, I had lost ten minutes.
Once I saw everything was OK and the logs were saved, I just went to bed.
Highlight was having VK6HD call me on 80 meters Sunday morning. Lowlights were
the power outage and missing North Dakota. Lots of dupes this year compared to
other years, but I never once received or saw the "WKD BEFORE" message!
Considering I'd just put the station back together a week before the contest,
I'm very pleased it worked well. I had my doubts about using TCP/IP networking
with WriteLog, but it never failed the whole weekend.
Thanks to everyone for the contacts. It was a lot of fun again this year.
73, Don AA5AU
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