[3830] OH0KAG M/S CQ WW RTTY and SAC PHONE

[Välimäki Juha]

	2003 SCANDINAVIAN ACTIVITY CONTEST PHONE OH0KAG M/S
 
      band      QSOs      points    mults
     -----------------------------------
      80        184         377      34
      40        294         629      46
      20        765        1608      60
      15        134         356      38
      10         15          32       8
     -----------------------------------
     TOTAL     1392        3002     186      SCORE: 558,372

CQ/RJ WW RTTY OH0KAG M/S

 	 QSOs	Points	Zones	DX:	States	Multipliers	Score
80m: 	  72	146	6	25	
40m:	 160	344	11	39	2
20m:	 284	632	18	54	15
15m:	 217	580	18	42	45
10m:	  29	81	6	11	11
Total:	762	1783	59	171	73	303	540,249

OH0KAG -SMALL GUNS IN ALAND ISLAND

OP'S: 
RTTY: OH6GLE, OH6XX, OH9MM
SSB: OH6GLE, OH6JHU, OH6XX, OH9MM

EQUIPMENT:
FT-1000MP, ALPHA 91B
FT-1000MP Mark V Field, HL-2K

ANTS:
80M: Dipole up 6M
40M: 2 el phased array
20M/15M/10M: A3S up 6m, single verticals

This is what happens if you do last minute operation with small equipment from "European Alaska". You get a small score! However, this was really fun!
 
We arrived to Aland Island late on Friday evening. Just two hours before completely darkness. There was no time to waste for putting up the antennas. First we tried to put up the A3S. We had a 12m mast but the weather was too windy. After the beam came down twice we had no other choice but put the beam up at 6m. That was a shame! We got an absolutely fantastic site for the beam but while it was only 6m up it was too low! 
 
After the beam was up we did not have any chances to put up the low band antennas before the RTTY contest. My purpose was to run RTTY as single op all band but it did not look that good. My worst nightmare came true while the RTTY contest started. 20M was closed! After operating 12 hours I got around 100Q! There was only one good hour: 11-12Z, just before SAC-contest started. 
 
There was nothing special while SAC conditions stayed poor. We tried to move every possible mult to 15/10 but with poor results, 99% with no luck. Everyone, thanks for trying!  On lower bands we had better luck. We tried to do our best but only 40q's on 15m! Lost absolutely too much multipliers on higher bands! Anyway, we had lots of fun temporarily on other bands!
 
After SAC was over  I started the RTTY contest again. After one hour I moved to 15M. WOW! What a great propagation to States! Even Californians came 599+ to our small beam! OH6GLE and OH6XX have never worked RTTY before and they thought all the gentlemen working rtty are weird ("£EUR%&#). OH6GLE even said that he would have ABSOLUTELY no intention to work rtty in his life! 
 
Well well....
 
After an hour they started to be interested in rtty, cause there was much better pile than in SAC! I thought that conditions on 15m were just temporarily good so I wanted give them a chance to operate. So we moved to M/S category with only one station operational for rtty. After 15M stayed open to States a few hours it was my time to pay back. OH6GLE and OH6XX had
continuous fight, who had the chance to run the pile! That has not happened for years in cw/ssb! This was my moment of FUN!

Because we haven't worked on lower bands before SAC the piles stayed also nice on lower bands for the rest of the contest. Most hours were around 60q/hour or more. I got the promise from other ops that they will also start doing rtty contesting in major contests. I am hoping to see OH6K active in cq ww/wpx rtty in future!

We used MMTY+ WRITELOG for rtty. That was absolutely a great combination! We did not have absolutely any problems with the software during the whole contest. The next time so2r or m/s with wi-fi network cards would do great improvement to the score!

Back to SAC. After sleeping a couple of hours after the cw ww we started to dismantle our antennas. Everything went okay and we were in the schelude. We went to the harbour and after 15min I recognized a familiar car. Yes, it was Martti, OH2BH, who had been running SAC as OH0B only 10km away from our QTH. At this point I got no comments about our upper bands score. Just had too small antennas (or poor operators, hi hi)!

Thanks to OH1MDR, OH3ES, OH3LQK, OH3MEP and OH3XR for their kind help before the operation!!!!!

73
Juha, G/OH0KAG (OH1KAG/OH9MM) 
p.s. cu next time as VP5X in cq ww cw