[RTTY] K4GMH VOLTA SOAB HP

[Mike]

Hello,

Score: 1,148,112,900
Band    QSO     Pts     Mul
80      45      959     24
40      215     3389    58
20      396     6782    70
15      4       93      3
10      0       0       0
Total   660     11223   155

Thanks to the A. Volta folks for sponsoring and doing all the behind the 
scene work to put on this Contest.  This is one of the oldest RTTY 
Contests.  Remember working it in the 70ties.

Thanks as well to all who participated.  Lot of very courteous operators as 
the bands were crowded at times due to the lousy higher freq. band 
conditions.

Bands were very bad at the start of the Contest.  Signals were not strong 
on 20 m making any kind of a run rhythm difficult.  Even S&P was 
tough.  Only one European station worked on 15 the other three were SA 
stations.  Never listened on 10 meters.

In spite of the storms in the Mid-West, 80 was reasonable for this time of 
year.  The loud European signals were workable.  ZL4BR was kind enough to 
QSY to 80 during a lull in activity at 0800Z for a contact.

At the beginning wasn't sure how the Contest would turn out as still 
fighting the new computer (my original SO2R set-up doesn't work with this 
computer). Also, the amp. blew a xsistor in the bias circuit ~ an hour into 
the Contest.  Fortunately, the computer worked fine in a SO1R arrangement 
once the Writelog configuration file was set-up and the amp. was fixed in 
15 minutes (helps if you previously had to fix the same thing).  The ant. 
and other station stuff worked a lot better than the operator.  Turned out, 
this was my best score in a Volta Contest.

Had fun and learned a few things making this a successful contest.

         73,
         Mike, K4GMH