[3830] BARTG Sprint KI5XP(@W5WMU) Single Op HP

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                    BARTG RTTY Sprint

Call: KI5XP
Operator(s): KI5XP
Station: W5WMU

Class: Single Op HP
QTH: Lafayette, La
Operating Time (hrs): 23.5
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Pts
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   80:  204   204
   40:  333   333
   20:  477   477
   15:   94    94
   10:    0     0
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Total: 1108  1108  Mults = 99  Total Score = 618,264

Club: Cajun Ham Club

Comments:

What a nice contest.  Its a shame that the high bands never really came around. 
There's a lot of extra time on hand when everything goes quiet.  Its funny to
hear the mass migration from one band to the other when it dies.  One second it
seemed there were plenty of people on 80 and the next, it was K4GMH, AA5AU,
WW4LL, and myself and that seemed like it was it.  

It was nice to work ZL2AMI.  I gave him a welcome back message and im glad to
see him back.  Not for the mult, but just to have a ham brother trying to get
things back to normal.

I know this is a British contest, but I sure seemed to work a lot of 007's.  No
pun intended, I truly received a lot of serial number 007's!

Things went as planned other then the late start.  Started 20 and 40, switched
to 20/15, and then back to 40 when 15 died.  As 20 started duping out, I moved
that radio to 80.  40 is usually my hoss band, but 20 proved to pull the most
q's.  I think I parked at 14.082 and held a run for somewhere near 6 hours.  It
would come and go, but with no more then 2 or 3 cq's between times, it was hard
to leave the frequency.  What a fun run!

40 pulled in some really nice DX.  I was quite surprised for JY4NE.  I asked for
a repeate to make sure I had the call correct.  Thats a new one on RTTY for me,
he'll be getting a card.  ZS6WN was also really loud on 40 at 10:00pm local
time.  The JA runs started around 2:00am local, which is their sunset time, so
that went pretty well as planned.  I was disappointed that it wasnt a "flood"
though.  Chasing Mike all night, I figured a NW run of Asia would be the only
way I'd catch him.  The weather here was not very pleasant, and kept waiting
each time I'd hear the swoosh of the rain for the lights to go out.  Mentioned
that to Don, and he said it was time for me to go to bed.  

I know that not everyone who works contests reads the reflectors, but I guess we
need to help the new guys along in other ways.  I'll admit that during a
contest, I try to be all business, but the timeouts to give someone suggestions
always worries me that they'll think, "whos this guy to tell me what to do". 
Well, a suggestion that I kept making all night was mentioned in the reflector. 
Unless you're one heck of a big-gun station, sending your serial number 1 time
on 80m rtty with a 100watt station and a dipole aint gonna cut it, period.  You
could pick out the more experienced ops, when you ask for a repeat, a different
macro was sent, with ONLY the serial number, thats a great heads up!

Thanks to Pat once again, he came in handy during the slow times for sure.  The
food's getting better, but not quite yet 5 star!  I'll be working on that during
the next few weeks.   Wonder if we can get pizza delivered out in the country.

Thanks for the q's, see yall in the next one.

73
Charlie
KI5XP


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