[RTTY] A. Volta RTTY

[Dave W7DPW]

Joe,

I was suprised to work JA1XCW (14:16Z)  and VR2XLN (14:56Z)  on 20
Meters, antenna was pointed towards EU and took several repeats to
fingure out the JAs call, it took a few calls to figure out that it was
a JA as I was in RUN mode. .  I didn't want to swing the antenna all the
way around, so I just fought it out.  I didn't hear the E21 as I usually
do when I hear the VRs and the JAs comming through. I wasn't looking too
hard I guess.

They usually come out very strong in the afternoon and not in the
morning as they did this year. Funny prop. EU was comming through later
in the afternoon.

7XORY (19:29Z), YO2AOB (19:18Z), USØYW (19:41Z), were a couple more at
an unusual time.

I was runing a full KW out.

Condx here were pretty bad but did manage to work 138 Qs.


David J Drew  --  W7DPW
Over 50 Years with Same Call
Amateur Extra Since 1970
Continuous ARRL Member Since October 1957
ARRL Life Member October 1969
Vancouver, Washington  98664-4445




----- Original Message ----- 
From: <k0bx at arrl.net>
To: <rtty at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 12:00 PM
Subject: [RTTY] A. Volta RTTY


> I only had a couple of hours to work this contest and
> only made 18 Q's.  I was on 20 meters rtty on Saturday
> morning. about 9:30 AM (1430Z) and I had to turn the
> Amp on to about 400 watts to even get the Europeans to
> hear me.  Very slow going.
>
> But just after 10 AM there was a surprise opening to
> Asia.  I worked JA5JWQ at 1514Z, VR2XMT 1516Z, VR2XLN
> 1517Z and E21YDP at 1518Z.  Not bad for 4 minutes
> work!! Signals were pretty strong, way better than
> Europe.
>
> St. Louis MO is in the black hole of the midwest and
> Asia is rare.
>
> You just got to be in front of the radio when the band
> is open!
>
> Joe K0BX
>
> Stop the insanity!
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