[3830] RTTY WPX YN2S(EW1AR) SOAB HP

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                    CQ WW RTTY WPX Contest

Call: YN2S
Operator(s): EW1AR
Station: YN2N

Class: SOAB HP
QTH: GRANADA, NICARAGUA
Operating Time (hrs): 30

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Pts
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   80:  189   854
   40:  443  2072
   20:  855  2034
   15:  270   688
   10:           
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Total: 1757  5648  Prefixes = 578  Total Score = 3,244,513

Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club

Comments:

Thanks to Octavio YN2N for his great hospitality!
Used one Radio - my trusty TS-570DG with Octavio's SB-200 amplifier. Power
output was mesaured by Bird wattmeter and was 270 watts.
Did not use DX Cluster, just forgot that rules allowed to do so. As a result,
missed lots of multipliers.
Antennas: A3S at 60 ft for 15 and 20 meters, Inverted Vees for 40 and 80
meters. 
Once I lost power at night time. Had to use generator and worked two hours with
low power - 100 watts, made 16 Q's on 80 meters.
Was surprised when VK6HD called me on 80 meters just in 5 minutes after
restoring the power. Thanks Mike! 
In general, 20 and 40 meters were most busiest bands during the Contest. Using
less than 300 watts, no surprise that 80 meters score was low. If you have 1.5
kilowatts, then you can run 80 meters and make some 500 Q's or so on that band
during the Contest. With 100 watts, I dont believe in it. Not possible. Almost
same picture on 40 meters - no power, no magic. We are all adult here.
Octavio's QTH is very quiet regarding QRM, his house is located some 20
kilometers off Granada and has no industrial intereferences, which is a big
Plus. And it was nice to come from frozen New York back to summer, hi. I would
love to visit YN2N place again, sometime. Nice country, nice people there.
Log was uploaded into LoTW right after the Contest.
Thanks to all who called me and answered my calls. Personally, it was my
highest number of QSO's made during RTTY Contest using just one radio.

73's Andrei NP3D - YN2S


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