[RTTY] BARTG ZL2AMI SOAB

[Bob Stewart]

                 BARTG Spring RTTY Contest

Call: ZL2AMI
Operator(s): ZL2AMI
Station: ZL2AMI

Class: SOAB HP
QTH: Quartz Hill
Operating Time (hrs):

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Countries  Call Areas
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   80:          3             3              1
   40:      140          29            19
   20:      184          37            20
   15:      129          14            23
   10:          0            0               0
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Total:    456           83            63  Continents = 6
Total Score = 399,456

Comments:

The propagation was very poor the first day but much better on the second 
day. I finally managed to work Phil GU0SUP and a good few more EU's. All the 
paths from
ZL were bad and there were many hours of no signals. My greatest problem 
came from the Chinese OTHR which blanked out the digital bands on 40m and 
80m at my sunrise and sunset both days. The thing would QRT for a few 
minutes and I would get in a few contacts before it came back on. A real 
turn-off as I should have
been able to make lots more contacts on 40m than I managed. Some of you must 
have been surprised by my antics and annoyed that at times I could not 
omplete
some contacts.

73

Bob ZL2AMI