[3830] LY6M WPX RTTY SO AB

[Dainius Savicius]

    1999 WPX RTTY CONTEST

     Call:  LY6M
  Country:  Lithuania
 Category:  Single Operator / All Band / High Power

  Time on: 28 hours

    BAND    QSOs      Pts  Pts/Q  Prefixes
     80      191      780   4.1       89
     40      156      672   4.3       47
     20      185      404   2.2       71
     15      341      880   2.6      136
     10       93      260   2.8       25
   --------------------------------------

   Totals    966     2996   3.1      368 

           Score:   1,102,528



          Continent Statistics

                   80   40   20   15   10    Total    %

North America       0    9   14  103   43     169    17.5
South America       0    0    0    9    5      14     1.4
Europe            183  132  150  142   19     626    64.8
Asia                8   13   18   79   23     141    14.6
Africa              0    1    1    2    0       4     0.4
Oceania             0    1    2    6    3      12     1.2

RIG: TS850, Amplifier 200...1000W (depended on day time, band, QRM level)
ANTs: 4 el tribander and dipoles.

Comments:

I prepared myself to my first serious atempt in RTTY Contesting.
Seems, I was not ready enough to some peculiarities of  RTTY contesting.
Freq stealing is common practice during a contests.   But I not believed
that is so pupular in RTTY contests. Some smart guys thinks if they have
KWs they are the Kings.  In CW you may pull out QSOs even if you are 
operating with another five station on a same freq, but in RTTY it's a bit
difficult.  Funniest moment was on 40m.  After short run of JAs YZ7ED came
on my CQing freq like a bolt from the blue and started CQing ,too....
UNBELIEVABLE  but, few min. later YZ7ED told me that I occupied his freq!?
After another few min. I "copleted" YZ7ED's lecture about:
CB,  "mother Russia" (!?),  Chernobyl (!?)  and in conclusion I heard that 
I'll die in Hell ....!!!  Nothing to add.... 
I CAN'T also understand LY8X deliberate QRM. At the begining of the contest 
quite a few times they were comming close to my running freq (by 0,1-0,3 kc)!
Did they checked my patience????
So, after slow start with low power I decided to finish with full power. 

Thanks to all for QSOs, and my excuses to those whom I asked many times 
to repeat again callsign or Nr. It was really hard weekend!

73  Dan
              


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