DRCG WW RTTY Contest - 2021
Call: AB1J
Operator(s): AB1J
Station: AB1J
Class: SOAB-6 LP
QTH: Waltham, MA
Operating Time (hrs): 5:58
Summary:
Band QSOs Countries Call Areas
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80:
40: 26 8 8
20: 82 21 11
15: 3 1 2
10: 1 0 1
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Total: 112 30 22 Total Score = 62,296
Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
This is first time in a 6 hour entry in a 24 hour contest where I struggled to
find 6 hours good enough to work. Usually it's the other way around and I
struggle to cut down to 6 hours. Conditions seemed poor and there wasn't much
activity in these parts.
Progress was slow but I finally made it to 100 QSOs with an overshoot to 112.
Touch and go, that was. At 109 I didn't think I'd make it to 110, but then WQ5OO
showed up on 10m. When he turned his antenna toward me, he was boomin'.
I like distance contests, so I work this one although it's not tailored much
toward me. No low power category and few awards. It's mostly for Europeans, who
don't seem to care much about a worldwide appeal for their contests. The contest
world is full of people who want to exploit and maintain their geographic
advantages. I don't know of other competitions like that. I guess these folks
didn't go to kindergarten and learn to share.
The DRCG scoring is based on the table at
http://www.drcg.de/_static/pdf/drcgww/drcg-ww-rtty_points.pdf
The CQ zone resolution is pretty coarse, but is an interesting approach. It
makes it easy to rescore any log for contests using CQ zones, especially the CQ
WW events.
I think all worldwide contests scores should be based solely on radio
transmission characteristics: mode, distance, antennas, polar paths, solar
conditions, etc. All scoring based on arbitrary divisions like national
boundaries, zones, and continents should be eliminated. No mults except maybe
grid fields, which are uniformly distributed over the globe (although varying in
size by latitude).
Still, I liked doing a bit of RTTY to keep in shape. That mostly means hitting
the correct F-key at the right moment. I've still got it. I look forward to the
fall RTTY contests, the CQ-WW-RTTY and others, especially, the Makrothen.
Thanks for the QSOs.
73,
Ken, AB1J
Flex 6500
N1MM Logger+ MMTTY(narrow) MMTTY(wide) 2Tone(Selective)
20m, 15m & 10m attic dipoles
Outdoor 66' stealth wire for 40m & 20m, Dentron manual tuner and indoor
counterpoise
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