[RTTY] Also a FIRST

[FireBrick]

I'm impressed!
And I bet he's young and can stay up late! :-((((


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "roofus" <roofus at sbcglobal.net>
To: <rtty at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 10:31 AM
Subject: [RTTY] Also a FIRST


> Well not really my first, I did play in the NAQP RTTY but wasn't set up very
> well running AFSK.  With the help of many on this reflector and MTTY,
> WriteLog and YAESU reflectors I was much better prepared to put my mark on
> the wall.  I have been looking for my "NITCH" in contesting and think I have
> found a home among the RTTY ranks mostly because of the operators.  I'm sure
> no records were set by my station but I can't remember having this much fun
> on the air in a long time and please forgive any mistakes I made chalking
> them up to a ROOKIE operator.  I live in the city so kept my high power down
> to 500 watts most of the time to keep any rocks from coming through the
> windows and the police from knocking on the front door and seemed to work
> well.  My only regret is my new call sign didn't come in time for the
> contest so in the next one if you hear KI8U it's me (AB8NI), but on the up
> side what a great way to get rid of all these old QSL cards and you can
> expect one from me, with WAS and DXCC RTTY now on my to-do list.  You are a
> great bunch, thanks.
> 
>                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, RTTY
> 
> Call: AB8NI
> Operator(s): AB8NI
> Station: AB8NI
> 
> Class: SOAB HP
> QTH: OHIO
> Operating Time (hrs): 35
> 
> Summary:
> Band  QSOs  Pts   State/Prov  DX   Zones
> ------------------------------------------
>   80:  144   180       40      14     8
>   40:  268   473       44      46    16
>   20:  457  1200       32      63    22
>   15:  266   709       13      61    19
>   10:    1     3                1     1
> ------------------------------------------
> Total: 1136  2565      129     185    66  Total Score = 974,700
> 
> Mentor, Oh (Lake county)
> YASUE FT1000MP MARK V
> ALPHA 99 @ 500 watts
> 3 element SteppIR @ 50'
> 140" inverted vee @ 50'
> WriteLog 10.49
> Log will be uploaded to Eqsl and LOTW
> 
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