[RTTY] RTTY WPX KA4RRU M/M HP

[Michael Trowbridge]

                    CQ WW RTTY WPX Contest

Call: KA4RRU
Operator(s): KA4RRU, N4DXS, W4DC, K5OF, W4MGM, W4DAV, K3UI, K4RSU, 
WB4ZNH, KE4BUS, KG4HTL, WA4TK, LIANNA AND TESSA
Station: KA4RRU

Class: M/M HP
QTH: va
Operating Time (hrs): 48

Summary:
  Band  QSOs  Pts
-----------------
    80:  380  1050
    40:  472  1676
    20:  722  1534
    15:  633  1458
    10:  286   618
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Total: 2493  6336  Prefixes = 618  Total Score = 3,915,648

Club:

Comments:

We had a great time during this contest.  We had several of our ops not 
able to
come for one reason or another (2 )

We had a total 12 ops this year (not counting the girls - Harmonics)  I 
think
all but one had done rtty contesting at least once from here ...  looks 
like it
is starting to make a difference.  (nice to be able to get about 10 
hours of
sleep (off and on) during a 48 hour contest.


Writelog seems to work well .... one thing happened .... after logging 
a call on
15 meters  I noticed that the call was logged at the freq of 21000 ... 
(instead
ot 21092 or where ever we were ....  The RADIO changed to 21000 
??!!!???  (only
happened one time) other then that software seems to work fine.

The side yard is torn up from all the cars parking ... the ground was 
very wet
and NOT frozen like it was for weeks before and like it is right now... 
  Debbie
is not happy!!! Will have to have a work party to "Smooth" things out!


80 meters
Icom 756 pro with XR-30000 AMP running 600 watts into dipole at 80 feet 
... Plus
bev.(s)

40 meters
Icom 756 with alpha 76 running 600 watts into 2 el cushcraft at 100 
feet - or
KLM Dipole at 55 feet

20 meters
FT 1000D  with Ameritron AL-82 running 700 watts into two th6dxx at 90 
and 60
feet (Thanks a million Mike (K4MGH) -  for stack match)

15 meters
Icom 746 pro with SB-221 running 600 watts into th6dxx at 50 feet

10 meters
Icom 746 with Ameritron AL-811 running 400 watts into 5 el mono bander 
pointed
(bolted) NE at 60 feet  - or th6dxx at 30 feet pointed (bolted) to 
South.

We hope to be able to "turn" a 10 meter ant. next year (just in time 
for the
lower end of the cycle  hi hi) and to make a few other improvements. 
(inside on
out)

Thanks for the q's and 73 de Mike KA4RRU