[3830] Volta RTTY IQ1RY M/S HP

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                    Volta RTTY DX Contest

Call: IQ1RY
Operator(s): IK1HXN, IW1AYD, IZ1LBG, I1BEP, YV5JDT/I1
Station: IQ1RY

Class: M/S HP
QTH: BRA
Operating Time (hrs): 22

Summary:
 Band  QSOs   Pts   Mults
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   80:   53    428    22
   40:  265   2785    49
   20:  485   7265    77
   15:  193   3307    64
   10:    5     65     4
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Total: 1001  13850   217  Total Score = 3,036,183,150

Club: 

Comments:

We had a blast, well we have had three (tens) or more blasts, during the whole
Volta contest and some more after since we get an helping hand from K3CT. 
What we have done this time at the Volta RTTY Contest  will be written in our
history for years here at IQ1RY. First of all: we enjoyed a lot any single
contact, thanks to all. The Volta is one of the nicest contest from our
standpoint  and we enjoy participating it from here. It’s a unique RTTY
business and the operators are consciousness and highly motivated about. We
operated, well we hardly tried to operate,  during the event in five OM,  two
in charge for the whole contest operating time and three as welcomed guest
operators. The major part of the contest went on as pure adrenaline, well
sometime it was too much quite to be dead on.
We started putting in front of the operating position the last year plaque we
won as IQ1RY in MULTI ALL BANDS. It was the right memento to all the operators
in charge over time. Things started  smoothly  reaching levels  of pure
enjoyment as the local evening was coming. At night one of the blast was the
20m band fully open, as it was for the ARI International DX contest the week
before.  But something was better than then.  The 40m and 80m bands don’t
went abruptly closed, some more appreciable contacts on those band continued
well into ours night time, with the 20m band still working and 15m, well, so
so. 
A big loud software bang. At almost the 04Z AM local, 02 UTC, the logger
reached over 900 QSO and went screaming about a runtime error. We weren’t
able to make a workaround to this until 08Z AM. In the meantime we have had
some contacts,  during trying and troubleshooting  the mess. All those
contacts, counting on two hands, where recovered but we furnished some
duplicated numbers. Sorry for that, but we hope that this would not have any
consequence. 
After all we restarted one logger, it was almost the 80th I think,  and gained
the ability to log contacts without problems. That was done with a workaround
and we knew that we will have to do a heavy work in the post-contest to
reassemble the whole contacts data base. We have now done it, successfully we
think.
As the contest ended we asked for any help from the N1MM development team.  Oh
men, to make short a very long story. We had our last series of blasts after
the contest. But we are really lucky as we meet highly motivated and
professional peoples over there. Particularly instrumental for the solution we
had was John K3CT, TU John! You deserve all yours gratefully thanks.
Now Volta operations time for the 2011 is gone and we should be able to send
our results. WOW! What a bunch of blasts! It’s radio, it’s ours world.
   CU in contest!
              73 from the whole IQ1RY RTTY team


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