Hi all,
Due to a sick PC, and the fact that I had a lousy cold over the New Year
holidays, and the fact that it was freezing here, I opted to start early on
Sunday morning.
Also, as the PC wasn't behaving too well, I opted to stay S&P, as I really
didn't want the PC to freeze in mid-flow in a pileup.
I was most surprised to start on 80m (much later than planned!) and find
P49X loud here. He didn't hear me too well, but we made it! I also found a
few W's, which was nice, and a few more on 40m up till about 0830UTC, which
was way after sunrise.
Mid morning was fairly quiet, with mostly eastern EU sigs, but by midday,
20m had opened nicely to the USA.
Managed a few nice mults, and was aiming for 200 Q's to satisfy my needs.
20m seemed to get very noisy by around 1700UTC, and closed shortly after
that. I tried 80 and 40 for a while, then decided to check 20 again, only to
find the band was open again, and all the noise had gone.
Enjoyed a few nice QSO's with good wishes, which is always pleasant, and one
of the better sides of RTTY!
Like Susan K5DU, I find those leading dots a real pain, (is this MixW doing
this??), along with those that send incorrect reports.
I had one W who would not accept just a serial number from me, and insisted
on me giving him a QTH, so I just sent GU. Dunno where he was gonna log
that, but what the heck!
Anyway, the PC kept going for the 10 hours I operated, which was a bonus,
but the new kit is on the way!
I think I gave GU to quite a few new calls on RTTY, so maybe the postman
will be busy in the coming weeks!
Here is what I managed:
Summary:
Band QSOs
------------
80: 11
40: 41
20: 152
15: 1
10: 0
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Total: 205 State/Prov = 40 Countries = 45 Total Score = 17,425
States worked:
CT MA ME NH RI VT NJ NY MD PA AL FL GA KY NC
SC TN VA AR NM
TX CA AZ OR WA WY OH IL IN WI CO IA MN MO SD
Provinces worked:
NB QC ON SK AB
DX:
3V 9A 9M2 CN DL E7 EA EA8 ER ES EU G GM
GW HA HB HS I KP2 LA
LY LZ OH OK OM ON OZ P4 PA PY S5 SM SP
SV TF UA UA9 UN UR YL
YO YU Z3 ZC4 ZL
Thanks to all for the fun, and I hope to be all sey up and ready for the
BARTG Sprint with my new setup!
I have a nice new PC ordered (built locally from parts) running Win7, and I
have also ordered a MicroKeyer II to go with it.
Looks like I will be busy for a while, installing everything from scratch!
73 and HNY to one and all
Phil GU0SUP
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