CQ Worldwide DX Contest, RTTY
Call: K0TG
Operator(s): K0TG
Station: W0AIH
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: WI
Operating Time (hrs): 19.5
Summary:
Band QSOs Pts State/Prov DX Zones
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80: 133 152 40 8 8
40: 346 483 51 31 17
20: 261 512 29 51 19
15: 66 126 23 20 14
10: 1 3 0 1 1
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Total: 807 1276 143 111 59 Total Score = 399,701
Club: Minnesota Wireless Association
Comments:
First of all, thanks to Paul, W0AIH for the use of his station. Due to other
things going on I did not get started until early afternoon Saturday.
I was really hoping that the low bands would be in better shape than they were.
With the thunderstorms in the area it was tough to hear. I had to shut down
for almost an hour on Saturday afternoon due to a lot of sparks flying. So
lost some valuable time on 20 and 15.
I managed to work LU1HF on 10. He was running EU but he was the only signal I
could hear. I tried CQing a bit, but no takers. It was nice to hear signals
on 15. I thought there would be some, but it was much more active than I
expected from the Black Hole.
In the last two hours I had set my sights on breaking the 800 QSO level. I had
about 75 to go to get there. I also wanted to break the 400K level for the
score. Well, I got to 807 for Q's but only to 399,701 for the score. DRATS!!!
Well it was not for lack of trying. An HB0 called me when I was on 40 and that
would have clinched it but we could not finish the QSO for some reason. He was
gone. I should have gone to at least a half hour earlier than I did. I tried
40 at about 2200Z and heard some DX, but it was tough to get thru the East
Coast wall. So I thought it might be better an hour later. I probably should
have toughed it out and gotten my run going earlier. 40 is a great band to end
this one on.
It was great to see the 10 minute rate above 100 many times! To bad conditions
were so poor. It could have stayed up there longer!
73, John K0TG @ W0AIH
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