[RTTY] GU0SUP Sprint SOABLP

[Tom Moore]

yes, it seemed pretty clear that MANY people didn't read the rules, huh? 
lots and lots of 599's. Maybe their software 'required' it?? And yes, saw 
lots and lots of 2 and 3 line responses. But it could be there were lots of 
new folks who just haven't gotton the hang of it yet and surely don't read 
this reflector or Don's web page. There were a tremendous number of people 
who had less than 50 Q's throughout and late in the contest. They weren't 
contesting, just getting a few Q's and having fun. But that's ok, in fact 
great. But sure wish there was some sort of way to get to them to show them 
and even a good bunch of the old timers the proper way. Maybe Shelby's idea 
of emailing, those who we can find addresses for, a short 'contest procedure 
info note' would, afterall, be helpful. Also there were quite a few apparent 
AFSK very wide over driven signals on the air this time too, even from at 
least one well known contest station. But I understand. I worry about over 
driving my amp, bad SWR etc but 'in the heat of the battle', I forget to 
check it as often as I should. Additionally I've been fighting a recurring 
mistake where when calling CQ, I set my 2nd VFO for xmit and use the main 
VFO for receive so I can tune in those a tad off freq. The problem is that 
when I quit CQ'ing and go S&P I've been forgetting to return xmit to the 
primary VFO. You know what happens! I get severely embarrassed at least a 
couple of times in each contest. That second VFO light needs to flash at 
me.. Hi.  I sincerely apologize to anyone I've stepped on when that occurs. 
I'm not going to chalk up that error to age (I just turned 63) but rather to 
a shear lack of concentration.

73, Tom WX4TM

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Cooper" <pcooper at guernsey.net>
To: "RTTY" <rtty at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2006 9:06 AM
Subject: [RTTY] GU0SUP Sprint SOABLP


> Hi all,
>
> Not such a good contest for me! I missed out on an OC mult, although I did
> hear ZL2AMI on 40m, but not sufficiently for a contact.
> Other than that, it seemed quite hard work, with very little activity on
> 15m, which I guess is due to the mult counting only once. 20m was where 
> most
> of the activity was, and the band was pretty crowded.
> Here, 20m closed early on Saturday, around 1900UTC, with only a few W's
> audible. I moved down to 40m, and found very little to work, and 80m 
> wasn't
> much better.
> As I don't have good low band antennas, I called it a night around 2000, 
> and
> decided to get up early on Sunday morning. Sleep got the better of me, and 
> I
> didn't get into the shack till just before 0700.
> 80m was poor, and 40m wasn't much better. Went to 20m and that was poor 
> too,
> but decided to stay there and go for it.
> My aim of 300+ Q's was way off the mark, but maybe conditions just weren't
> that good.
> I see that many regulars were playing in the Top Band contest, or REF or
> UBA, which explains why I missed out on so many of the usual calls.
>
> For your info, GU0VNK was operated by Jan DJ8NK, and he was active for 
> some
> of the contest.
> QSL is via DJ8NK.
>
> During my CQ sessions, I had lots of QRM from folk who insisted on calling
> during the exchange with another call, or folk who just didn't respond to 
> me
> sending them a report. Also got "told off" for not sending a signal
> report!!!! One guy said he had to have an RST or I was not going in his 
> log!
> And HE called ME!
>
> And how about this for a response.....
> GU0SUP GU0SUP GU0SUP DE XX1XX XX1XX XX1XX RGR RGR AND TNX
> UR RST 599 599 599 599
> SERIAL NUMBER 049 049 049 049
> TIME 1016 1016 1016 1016
> HOW COPY AND BTU AR GU0SUP GU0SUP GU0SUP DE XX1XX XX1XX XX1XX KN
>
> Interesting response from this station, which was an IW1. Not only that, 
> but
> his clock was an hour early too (or should that be one month, and an hour
> early?).
>
> Here is my claimed score:
>  QSOs
> 80m: 12
> 40m: 26
> 20m: 233
> 15m: 13
> 10m: 0
> Total: 284
> Continents: 5
> Call Areas: 13
> DXCC: 51
> Total multipliers: 64
> Score: 90880
>
> Thanks to all for the points, and my log is now on LoTW.
>
> 73 de Phil GU0SUP
>
>
>
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