[RTTY] 2005 NAQP RTTY - All 3830 Claimed Scores 28Feb2005

[tgstewart@pepco.com]

Nice to be back on RTTY for my favorite contest!  Auto road racing is my 
"hobby du jour" right now, but I always find time for some radio 
contesting!

I'll have to check my log, but I doubt I got to 40 much earlier than 2100 
at all.  The way my station is set up right now, one radio does 40 (& 160) 
+ high bands (usually 15) and the other does 80 and the main high band. So 
there was a radio on 40 a lot more of the time than any of the other 
bands.  I was VERY aggressive with passing just about anything for a QSO 
late in the contest, which helped keep rate going.  It was kind of 
interesting how the QSO's came in spurts.  I could go 2 or 3 minutes 
without a bite and then all of a sudden work 5 in a minute between the 2 
radios.

Frankly I thought I'd get clobbered because of 15 and 10, but I guess they 
were so long that the midwest had a hard time using them to advantage. 
They did shorten up a bit on high angles as they were closing, but it 
still wasnt great and passes were very low percentage so I stopped trying 
after a while.  W6YX was definitely the beacon on 10 and 15.

Tyler K3MM




"Don Hill AA5AU" <aa5au at bellsouth.net> 
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K3MM               780   194    10    151,320 PVRC
AA5AU              739   202    10    149,278 

Wow, that's close.  It's not the first time Tyler and I have been neck & 
neck in
NAQP RTTY.  Welcome back Ty!

Congrats to Tyler on what looks like a new NAQP RTTY Record, depending on 
what
the log checkers do.

I made a tactical error by not operating the first 10 hours straight.  I 
took a
rest period just as my rate started to increase.  I did not realize 40 
meters
would start so early (2100Z maybe earlier?).  I'm figuring I probably 
missed
20-30 QSO's because of it.  It looks like I came up 11 QSO's short, but 
you
never really know until the final results are out.  Got to love this kind 
of
competition though!

In my experience, even with close scores such as these, Claimed Scores 
usually
are close enough to reflect the actual outcome as far as standings are
concerned.

Congrats to everyone for increased scores across the board despite only 
mediocre
conditions.  It's says a lot about the caliber of NA RTTY operators.  It 
was the
most fun I've had in an NAQP RTTY event.

73, Don AA5AU


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