[NCC] WRTC / IARU

[Thomas Roscoe]

It was fun chasing the WRTC R3 guys. I did manage to work all 48 teams 
at least once. I made over 90 contacts with the teams (plus Cal a few 
times, AZed  and a few other friends). 20 meters was the band from here. 
There was a good band opening on 20 Saturday night and their sigs were 
around S9 for a while. The rest of the time they were workable but not 
very strong. I thought I would be able to work some of them on 40 but I 
was wrong. Their 100W and cloud burning antennas weren't the hot item to 
the states. The static was just too high for what they were using. I did 
spot check 15 from time to time. I did hear some EU but no R3's.
It was fun watching Andy and Tim move in the standings. I think at one 
point they were in 3rd place.  They were #1 in Q's for quite a while. It 
should be interesting to see the final results. I uploaded my log a 
minute after the WRTC part was over.
73,
Tom K8CX