[RTTY] K4GMH SOABHP SO1R

[Mike]

2002
CQ World-Wide RTTY DX Contest

CALL: K4GMH  STATE: Virginia   ZONE: 5
SINGLE OPERATOR ALL BANDS HP UNASSISTED (SO1R)
              
       QSOs  Points Zones DX: States Multipliers Score
80m:   127   227    12    30  36
40m:   286   656    17    47  40
20m:   403   945    26    68  39
15m:   520  1381    24    68  33
10m:   445  1255    21    67  24
Total: 1781 4464   100   280  172     552        2464128

Station Description: IC-746; 4CX1600B (1200 Watts)
Antenna(s): TH7DX @ 125 ft; TH6DXX @ 65 ft (fixed on Europe); Moseley S402
@ 135 ft; 
		80 Inverted Vee 2 120 ft

Remarks (Biggest thrill in Contest, funniest story, comments, etc.): 
Great conditions!  I beat my last year's score by ~ 600,000 points.
However, expect everyone to have better their last years score due to the
FB propagation.

Thanks to all who were kind enough to work me.  I appreciate all the QSOs.
Hope to see you after the contest to have longer QSOs.  

Activity was great.  Never heard the signals spread out so much over the
band.  Here is what I heard: on 80ty, they were starting at 3570 and going
to 3600; 40ty 7030 to 7060; 20ty 14072 to 14122; 15 21072 to 21120; 10
28073 to 28121.  Wall to wall loud signals.

This is definitely a SO2R dream contest.  Sure the scores of those stations
will be very good this year.

Nice to see Dick, 7J1BBC (exKD6AZN), from his new permanent QTH.  

Again, thanks to all whom I worked and to the contest committee who has the
job of sorting out all the long lists of scores.

	73,
	Mike, K4GMH