ARRL RTTY Roundup
Call: KI7MT
Operator(s): KI7MT
Station: KI7MT
Class: Single Op HP
QTH: Montana
Operating Time (hrs): 13.5
Summary:
Band QSOs
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80: 0
40: 0
20: 433
15: 364
10: 207
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Total: 1004 State/Prov = 52 Countries = 32 Total Score = 84,336
Club:
Comments:
Well now, that was interesting.
Part time effort, daylight hours only.
I moved the shack this year and haven't put any low band antennas back up. In
addition to that, I had problems with RF in the shack on 10/15 so they were all
low power. I don't think I had RFI on 20M, or at least, any that I could detect.
I also had problem after problem with software, that was really frustrating.
That's the bad news, the good new is, who says you can't have fun contesting
with junk yard verticals :-) I knew things were on the up when, on Saturday, I
worked worked an East coast station, then West, then VK calls in, I was a bit
bit surprised, then ZL was shortly after, work a few more US, then ZS calls in,
all within the space of a few minutes.
You guys would laugh if you saw the antennas here (I should take a picture).
10M is a 3/4" PVC pipe with 10ga wire tapped to the mast with 4 radials & coax
choke, whole thing about 8ft off the ground. 15m is scrap piece of copper pipe
4 radials same style choke, 20m about the same as 15m but it's a bit higher.
I only spent 5 hours on 20M (most of Sunday afternoon), but it was allot of fun
(forgiving the qrm). At one point I had stack after stack that seemed like it
took hours to go though. I didn't clock it, but it's one of those things that
keeps golfers going back for more, had one great hole the whole day and he's
hooked.
It makes me wonder ( if not a little envious ) what I could do with a couple of
towers packed with yagis, or at least one on each and SO2R.
In any case, thanks to all those that called in, was allot of fun, and a good
warm up for the WPX.
73's Greg, KI7MT
Rig: FT-1000MP
Ant: Monoband Junkbox Verticals
Int: Navigator FSK Interface
SW: N1MM
AMP: AL-1500
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