I did work MT, and saw two WY stations who were S&P and I tried to "fish" for
them, but never got them in the log.
AK was abundant but only after the band had already closed to EU. Band
conditions got slightly better later in the day when the solar flux rose 4
points to 164 and the A & K indices dropped. But the sun had set in EU and it
was hard to find new stations to work in the last 30 minutes of contest.
Highlights for me were working VU2NKS and ZC4LI. Found Steve CQing all by
himself way up the band. There's a lot of be said for band scopes! I worked
more ND stations than SD stations (2 to 1). My problem area was W3-land plus
NC, SC and VA. I never had propagation there. Missed NC and SC and only
worked K4GMH through ESP. I thought I was going to miss OH and MI but the band
did open there later. I worked TN and KY via the NW scatter route - K4RO had
good ears!
73, Don AA5AU
>________________________________
> From: John GW4SKA <ska@bartg.org.uk>
>To: Don Hill AA5AU <aa5au@bellsouth.net>; 'RTTY Reflector'
><RTTY@contesting.com>
>Sent: Monday, December 5, 2011 8:03 AM
>Subject: [RTTY] 10-RTTY Contest
>
>What a great contest that turned out to be.
>
>Started a bit slow here and no sign of any of the Far East / Pacific DX that
>has been around lately. The band started to open around 07:30 to Europe and
>was steady through to 12:00. Very frustrating to see JA stations spotted
>from other parts of Europe and not a sniff of a signal here. Then the first
>NA stations appeared. 100s, maybe 1000s of them! At times the rate here was
>as high as it has been on any band at any time in the past. It went through
>to around 17:20 when the band closed.
>
>42 States, 6 provinces and 340 QSOs in 5 hours ..... on 10 Metres .....
>that's the way to spend a Sunday afternoon!
>
>Many thanks to everyone who called me and to Don and those others who put
>this on for us. Now all I need is AK, MT and WY for 10M RTTY WAS
>................
>
>73, John GW4SKA
>
>
>
>
>> I want to thank everyone who participated in this first contest. It
>> appears to have been a success and this would not have been
>> possible without your participation. I enjoyed the contest very much.
>> Hope you did too!
>>
>> We'll have to do it again next year.
>>
>> 73, Don AA5AU
>> http://www.aa5au.com
>> http://www.rttycontesting.com
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