[3830] CQ WW RTTY KU2M SOSB20 Classic HP

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                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, RTTY - 2022

Call: KU2M
Operator(s): KU2M
Station: KU2M

Class: SOSB20 HP
Class Overlay: Classic 
QTH: Wayne, NJ
Operating Time (hrs): 21.8

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  State/Prov  DX  Zones
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   80:                           
   40:                           
   20: 1114      51      73    25
   15:                           
   10:                           
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Total: 1114      51      73    25  Total Score = 389,933

Club: Frankford Radio Club

Comments:

Thanks to all who called in as I operated on and off during the weekend. I had
originally planned to do SOSB 15M but in my excitement to get going somehow I
found myself on 20M, not 15M, so I stayed with it. I might have tried a Classic
All Band effort, but my 80M antenna is still broken. (Well, maybe one of these
weekends...)

Condx were fairly good but nothing to get excited about. I was glad to hear and
work more Ukrainian stations than I have in any contest since February, and was
at the same time disappointed that I didn't work as many Russian stations as
usual. Condx into European Russia were poor, and signals were marginal and
sparse, with little penetration further east and north into the Eurasian
continent. Nothing east of Turkey was heard, except for RW0SR in zone 18 - who
was loud, and coming in over the pole.

Other than that, only ONE (count 'em) JA was heard or worked - at the likely
times of day, I turned the main antenna toward JA and called CQ for extended
periods, but worked bupkis from that area. I did hear EU stations and Ws further
west running JAs, but they weren't heard here in the KU2M Triangle.

There were NO continental African stations heard or worked at all up until about
90 minutes before the end of the contest, when I stumbled upon D2UY, who was
blasting in S9+ with flutter on his signal, as if he was coming in over the pole
and not via a trans-equatorial path. Being unassisted, I didn't have the
advantage of DX posts and finding him was the biggest surprise of the contest
for me, and a nice double mult. But that was it for continental Africa.

As the popularity of RTTY contesting continues to grow, it was gratifying to see
the entire RY segment filled with signals, from 14080 all the way up to just
below the phone band edge at 14150. I appreciate the skill set and equipment
needed to turn what may at first look like Martian crossword puzzles into real
callsigns, and RY has matured into a serious mode for those up to the challenge.


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