Mexico RTTY International Contest
Call: VA7ST
Operator(s): VA7ST
Station: VA7ST
Class: SO1R HP
QTH: BC
Operating Time (hrs): 12
Summary:
Band QSOs Pts Mults
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80: 43 129 6
40: 14 44 4
20: 238 721 43
15:
10:
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Total: 295 894 53 Total Score = 47,382
Club: British Columbia DX Club
Comments:
* FT2000 + SB221
* N1MM Logger + MMTTY
* Tribander at 45'
* 40M twin half-squares E-W
* 80M twin verticals E-W
SFI = 71 | A = 2 | K = 1
A bit of a shakeout for WPX RTTY next weekend. Put in just shy of 12 hours,
some LP but mostly HP, and all of it in casual contesting mode. I took plenty
of breaks to allow for a lingering head cold to fade out, after knocking me for
a loop Thursday and Friday.
Tried a bit of NA Sprint CW in the middle, which cost me all of 40M prime time
and probably 100 Qs and a dozen mults. By the time I bailed out of the sprint,
40M was toast. Figured 80M would be pretty good after working EA8 as a first Q,
but it was very slow going with rather few RTTY stations to work.
Got a few W/XE 40M QSOs early on Sunday morning waiting for the EU opening on
20M. Signals over the pole were scratchy at first, but firmed up and the
opening was quite good -- not a huge number of mults but a steady stream of
callers. Opening lasted from 1530z to about 1715z.
Workd 23 XE contacts, vs. 9 last year. Overall, activity seemed pretty good,
especially on 20M Sunday morning. Just a few points short of a second-best ever
outing, and another hour of energetic in S&P work on 40M early Saturday evening
would easily have provided the mults for a personal best in this one.
Looking forward to this one next year with 15M and 10M providing a bit of
action. Should be great fun having to figure out when to be where again.
Year QSO Pts Mults Score
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2009: 295 894 53 47,382 HP
2008: 82 255 17 4,335 HP
2007: 318 963 67 64,521 HP
2006: 312 920 54 49,680
2005: 271 816 55 44,880
2004: 74 0 20 4,540
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