[RTTY] Tara Melee amd Major Contests

[Bob Wanderer]

If possible, take off the Monday following a major contest
too.  This way you hopefully won't be hearing voices, CW,
and/or RTTY tones in your head.  If I had to choose between
taking off the Friday or the Monday, I'd go with the latter.
I get the station ready during the week preceding the event.
Also, I usually don't get on until early Saturday morning if
the contest started Friday night (i.e. 0000Z Saturday)

It seems to me that everybody would have different lists of
major contests.  Nevertheless, one I think almost everybody
would agree on would be the ARRL RTTY Roundup, held the
first weekend of January.  Three others would probably be
CQWW, North American QSO Party (NAQP), and WPX (prefixes).
I wish sweepstakes came in a RTTY flavor; one more chance
for a clean sweep, although I don't know if VY1JA and the
major Alaskan, Puerto Rican, US Virgin Islands, or Hawaiian
stations have RTTY capability.

73
Bob AA0CY

-----Original Message-----
From: rtty-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:rtty-bounces at contesting.com]On
Behalf Of WI8W
Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2003 8:13 PM
To: RTTY at contesting.com
Subject: [RTTY] Tara Melee amd Major Contests


I had a lot of fun in the Tara Melee.  Only managed to get
in about 6 hours
of op time due to lost propagation (I live in the Black Hole
of RF) and
other comitments.  Never did make the 160 contest. I did
make about 100
contacts running the local National Weather Service Skywarn
Recognition Day
Special Event Station (WX8GRR) here in Grand Rapids, MI
this morning. Nope,
they did not do any RTTY.

Thanks to all for the hints before the contest and also
thanks to those who
managed to hear my signal during the contest.

My score has been sent for posting on the TARA RTTY Melee
website.

157 QSO's  X 44 Multipliers =  6908 claimed score.

Sure did help on my RTTY WAS quest.

So now on the future events.

I have spent considerable time reading all I can about RTTY
contesting so my
question is this.

Don,  AA5AU recommends taking the previous day off from work
before a major
contest.

So what are the "major"  contests?

I need to do some advance vacation time planning before the
first of the new
year. Hey,  I am all for taking a day off, especially when I
get paid for
it.


73

Thom WI8W













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