[3830] RTTY Roundup K8AJS Single Op LP

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Call: K8AJS
Operator(s): K8AJS
Station: K8AJS

Class: Single Op LP
QTH: OH
Operating Time (hrs): 24

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
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   80:  167
   40:  188
   20:  314
   15:  147
   10:   70
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Total:  886  State/Prov = 57  Countries = 51  Total Score = 95,688

Club: 

Comments:

That was fun.

I really was hoping for better propagation, but it wasn’t to be. It seemed
worse on Sunday than Saturday, but neither day was really outstanding. I got
more multipliers than I did two years ago, when the solar flux was almost ready
to bust 90 (Last year doesn’t count; I was part of a scheduled multi-op at
another station that flopped because of antenna problems, and I wound up
putting in 5 and a half hours at home), but not much more. I really was hoping
for more DX; two years ago I had 48 countries, this year I had 51. The rest of
the (small) multiplier increase was in states and provinces. I got all the
states, but where was DC? Others have compared this contest to Sweepstakes;
they may not be far wrong. I’m primarily a DXer, not a contester, I don’t
like Sweepstakes.

Things went well, I had a good time. Well, mostly well, on Sunday I was having
some rotator problems, the rotator didn’t want to turn clockwise farther than
120 degrees, so 120 to 180 was a no-show. That’s South America. I worked
around it, though, and it didn’t seem to hurt me. I wasn’t aware of any
stations on in that quadrant that I missed. Most of my contacts were on 80, 40
and 20, thanks to propagation, but 15 made a worthwhile contribution, and I was
even able to do some good on 10 meters; it surprised me by waking up on Sunday
for a lot of US stuff.

Activity was good, and I made a lot of contacts. Thanks to all of you for the
contacts, I appreciate it. I had fun overall and I’m looking forward to next
year’s run. Maybe we’ll even have more DX…☺ 

Rig: FT1000MP
Antennas: Quad, 3 elements on 20 and 15, 4 elements on 10; 204-foot G5RV
Software: WriteLog 10.81f


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