A lot of fun!
The new tried setup was a real pleasure to operate.
Used a friend's of mine FT1000D with full dual receiver
and narrow INRAD filters. I made the second receiver's
knob "burning" in a intense job of search & pounce
on a second band than the one I was running.
A new Matrox G450 video card was a really good improvement
to run RCKRtty+PK232 & MMTTY on two different big windows:
it was amazing!
Condx on Friday night were good enough, interesting long skip openings
on 15 and 20 open all the night long.
On Saturday I found a good short skip activity, working a lot of EUs. Several
band's change were very usefull to have a good overall rate, jumping between
10, 15 and 20. Usual booming signals from SA in the evening/night hours.
Less then good propagation on low bands and poor activity: run there just to
take some mults. I must also consider that my simple wires on 40/80 aren't
able to perform in a competitive way, of course.
On Sunday, everything was about the same; good LP conditions on 20 to VK/ZL
but only few stations on the air. Some good mult from AS and a lot of EU
traffic to the end of my run.
I was hoping to find more VKs active; with that conditions it could be
a lot of fun more.
30 hours limit for SO was a pity to me (it's the same in every contest
with time limits inside. I hate to stop contesting if I'm still in condition
to run.... short sleeps are very dangerous to me: more than once I didn't
ear my alarm clock and slept more then planned :-((
Too many stations answering out of frequency; sound cards' use needs to
pay a little bit of attention more.
Some problems with the "Contest delle sezioni", a national all mode contest
yearly organized by ARI. The excange (obviously only between I stations)
consisted in RS(T) and operator's own local ARI section(department) code
number (4 digits).
It was a big problem to Italian ops running the ANARTS; a lot of times,
I was "compelled" to a double excange (one for each contest!), to gain a
good QSO for my ANARTS log :-)). Sometimes it was better to skip and loose
some contacts because the really "one-way" brain of some operators.
Some DX: 4K6DI,A45WD,BX4AF,CN8LI,PY0FF,VK2CT,VK2KM,VK2SG,
VK4UC,VK6GOM,VU2SJV,VP5/KW4DA,ZL2BR,ZL2AMI,ZP6DN
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ANARTS DX WW RTTY Contest
Callsign : IT9BLB
DXCC/Cont. : I / EU
Category : Single Op. / All Band
Mode : RTTY
Club Competition : Tikirriki Contest Club
Power : HIGH 500 Watt
Contest Date : 08.06.2002
Default Exchange : 599
Operating Time : 30 h
Software : RCKRtty V2.15
BAND QSOs Valid QSOs Points DXCC Dis. Cont. VK-Bonus
10 184 184 1177 37 11 5 600
15 383 383 4610 52 25 6 800
20 302 301 3416 45 23 6 600
40 45 45 307 16 4 4 400
80 35 35 154 19 3 3 0
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949 948 9664 169 66 6* 2400
* = Counted only once (not once per band)
Final Score: 9664 * (169 + 66) * 6 + 2400 = 13628640
Equipment: FT1000D, AL-1500@4/500w
Antennas : 10/15M 3el. @ 20mt.
20M 5el. monoband @ 21mt.
40/80M inv_VEES
Digital : PC Thunderbird 900Mhz, Matrox G450 Dual Head,
WIN98se, RCKRtty V2.15 & PK-232 on left monitor
MMTTY V1.61 on right one.
73s, "Joe" IT9BLB/KF6FBC/9H3DC/IH9P
http://www.ih9p.com/
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