[RTTY] VK4UC VOLTA SO AB HP

[John Cashen]

I agree with K4WW that this one was more work and had slower rates than 
some of the "bigger" RTTY contests.  Although signals were weaker, there 
was also a noticeable lack of activity, particularly from NA.  Perhaps 
Shelby hit it right that there are just too many RTTY contests, at least at 
this time of the year.
10m was simply a disappointing bust!  My 40m beam is down for repairs, but 
40/80m are always a waste of time from VK in all but the "really big" 
tests. Mother's Day commitments limited my participation to less than 11 
hours and maybe that's another reason for the general fall off in 
participation. The hours I was on would have usually produced a lot more 
than 183 Q's.  My highest peak run rate was only about 70 with 30-40 being 
the norm. I did work the AP off the back of his antenna and also worked 
several NA stations with strong signals on 20 LP over Europe.  That's 
always a kick!
Being a long way from the population centres of NA and EU I always enjoy 
these contests where the scores are weighted for distance. Oh, BTW another 
"distance" one, ANARTS, is coming up next month.

Its nice to be finally back into it again.....

          qsos   points  dx:     call areas
80m:    0       0       0       0
40m:    0       0       0       0
20m:    103     4392    27      15
15m:    70      3089    24      6
10m:    10      505     2       6
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total:  183     7986    53      27

bonus multipliers:      0
total multipliers:      80
score:          116,915,040

Rigs: 2x FT-1000MP w/ Quad and Alpha78
Ants: C-31XR@22m; KT-34A@ 18m; C-3 @ 4m
Comp: AMD-K6 500Mhz
S/W: WriteLog (SO2R)
Decoders: RITTY 4.53 and MMTTY 1.62 w/ 2x SB-16 ISA soundboards

John   VK4UC


  

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