[3830] UKDX RTTY K4GMH Single Op HP

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                    UK DX Contest, RTTY

Call: K4GMH
Operator(s): K4GMH
Station: K4GMH

Class: Single Op HP
QTH: VA
Operating Time (hrs): 15
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Pts   Mults
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   80:  102          33
   40:  316          70
   20:  259          58
   15:  304          62
   10:  100          49
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Total: 1081  3006   266  Total Score = 799,596

Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club

Comments:

Thanks to the Contest Committee for your efforts in organizing and scoring the
Contest.  

Thank all the operators for the QSOs.  They are appreciated.

Bands were not as good as even last weekend for the ARRL RR, at least at this
location.  Part of the reason for the seemingly drop off of the propagation
could be the reduced USA activity.  Fortunately, there was a good amount of
European activity, maybe even more than last weekend.  

Forty meters was a surprise the last two hours of the Contest with a number of
European stations worked.  Also, the Southeast Asia activity was good up until
the end of the Contest on 40 meters.  

Eighty meter European activity around 0300 UTC was as good as I have heard in a
while.  The band was quite and the signals seemed to be easily copied by both
sides.  

The QSO rate for the first five hours of the Contest, from this location in the
central part of Virginia, was about the same as during the ARRL RR.  This
comparison is a stretch as the start times of the contests were not the same. 
My RR start rate was due to domestic (USA/VE) QSOs and the UK start rate
accomplished with European QSOs. 

The National Football League playoffs games introduced another distraction to
compound trying to keep up with the SO2R operation.  The TV is mounted over the
top of the two monitors used in for SO2R.  This arrangement does allow easy
viewing of all three screens for readily focusing on the screen of interest. 
Still, it was hard at times to keep up with the three screens even though one
was passive (the TV) compared to the other two.  A SO3R set-up has to be even
more strenuous.  

Again, thanks to all for the QSOs and hope everyone is having a very nice
2012.

  73,
  Mike, K4GMH


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