[RTTY] Volta

[Don Hill AA5AU]

Tom, W7WHY wrote:

"One really neat thing--I was tuning on 40 meters about 0500Z and saw on my
screen, "KRIFJGHHAMI CQ",  in the noise. Thought AMI must be ZL2AMI and gave him
a call and lo and behold, it was him,"

This is what Eddie, G0AZT, used to refer to as "pulling callsigns out of
alphabet soup" and he was one of the best I'd seen do it.  I do it all the time
but it's something that took me a few years to get good at and I still smile
when I'm able to guess who it is.  One year at Dayton at the RTTY Hospitality
Suite we had a grease board and someone starting writing partial calls in
"alphabet soup" and we would guess at who's callsign it was.  It was really a
lot of fun especially after a few toddies. hi

Sorry I'll be missing Dayton again this year.

73, Don AA5AU

-----Original Message-----
From: rtty-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:rtty-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf
Of Tom Osborne
Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2005 5:03 PM
To: RTTY
Subject: [RTTY] Volta

 Band    QSOs    Pts  Cty   Sec
  7           22    178    2   10
  14         22    161    1    9
 Total      44    339    3   19
Score: 328,152

Rig TS-450SAT 60 watts
Software N1MM and MMTTY (Super combo)

Not many contacts, but am still putting the station together.  Was still putting
up antennas on Saturday.  Lowered the tower with the 20 meter beam on it and
found the top section was bent.  Tried to crank it back up and broke the cable
so it was stuck at 20 feet pointing East, so didn't get to work any Eu.
stations.  Put some twinlead on the 80 meter dipole to load it on 20, but still
didn't hear any Eu.

One really neat thing--I was tuning on 40 meters about 0500Z and saw on my
screen, "KRIFJGHHAMI CQ",  in the noise. Thought AMI must be ZL2AMI and gave him
a call and lo and behold, it was him, and he heard my peanut whistle.  Thanks
for the only DX contact I had.

Tom W7WHY
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