[RTTY] GU0SUP SOABLP OK RTTY

[DESLOOVERE DIRK]

Phil,

Intresting contest story, thanks for working me on 80m !

In the past I have send my log in as a cabrillo file, so no problem.   The
cabrillo stuff is highligthed in writelog.

73
DIRK
ON4ADZ


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Cooper" <pcooper at guernsey.net>
To: "RTTY" <rtty at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2003 1:00 PM
Subject: [RTTY] GU0SUP SOABLP OK RTTY


> Seasons greetings to one and all!
>
> Conditions were great, which helped a lot, and it was very enjoyable to
work
> Norman VK6GOM on 10m and 20m.
> Some nice short openings to W6/W7 as well, and I even copied Bob VE6YR,
but
> didn't manage to find him CQ'ing.
>
> I had planned to start at midnight, but felt too tired to do that, so
> decided to get up early instead. That didn't work, and it was just past
0700
> when I woke up. Got to the shack with a cup of coffee, fired up everything
> and got started. After 6 QSO's, I noticed that the IC756Pro was making a
> funny sound, the display went dark, and I was only putting out about 10
> watts! PANIC set in, and I started to play with the settings, trying to
see
> if I could isolate anything, then found it did this on all modes, and even
> into a dummy load with no ancilliary equipment plugged in. Even more
> worrying! I had to nip out to our club, as my IC756 was there, so that was
> more time lost. Swapped rigs over, and that did much the same thing! Tried
a
> different PSU, and still the same!
> In the end, I found it was only the power lead that was causing the
problem,
> so I swapped that and got back into things after losing about 1 hour of
> contest time. Sadly, it meant that I lost out on a few 80m contacts at
that
> point.
>
> Although 10m was open, I couldn't copy any of the OK stations, so didn't
> really try hard on that band. 15m was in good shape, with plenty of W6/W7
> around, and even a few OK's.
> 20m seemed good, but now I look at the score sheet, the points are well
> down. Looks like 40m was the better band for me, which surprised me, as I
> didn't really think I had done much on that band.
>
> There were quite a few calls that I haven't seen before, which is always
> nice, but some clearly need to watch the flow before they start hitting
> keys! I had several instances of having to repeat exchanges, simply
because
> someone kept calling me in mid-QSO.
>
> Looking at some of the scores posted on the 3830 reflector, I think I did
> quite well!
> This is what I managed:
>
> CALL USED - GU0SUP    Zone  14
>
> Class A) Single operator all bands
>
>
> BAND     QSOs      Points      DXCC      OK stns
> 80             53          162           17            9
> 40             73          234          28           15
> 20             71             93          24           12
> 15             75           125          22            2
> 10             30             50           9             0
> Totals:     302          664         100          38
>
> 664 pts X 100 DXCC X 38 OK stns  = 2523200
>
> Station:    IC756Pro about 60 - 70 watts out
> Antennas:   MQ1 minibeam for 10, 15 & 20, half-size G5RV on 40 and an
> inverted L for 80.
> Logging:    Writelog 10.44B + MMTTY
>
> Does anyone know if we can submit a Cabrillo log for this one?? And why
does
> Writelog not produce the usual RTF layout?
>
> Seasons greetings to you all, and I hope Santa brings you all the radio
gear
> you asked for!
> Very best 73, and see you all in the SARTG HNY contest.
> de Phil GU0SUP
>
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