[RTTY] Surpassing the 100,000 RTTY QSO mark

[Andrew O'Brien]

Don,
Do you know which callsign is in your log the most ?


Andy


On Nov 11, 2007 12:09 AM, Don Hill AA5AU <aa5au at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> This weekend, although I had hoped to work WAEDC RTTY, I am moving the contents of my garage into a pod so that the ceiling can be
> replaced next week.  It's the last hangover from Katrina. Several years ago I had a hard drive failure on my main contest PC. At the
> time I feared I had lost all the logs that were on that PC.  Last night I came across several old computers in the garage, three of
> them DOS machines and one old Dell machine with Windows 95.  In the DOS machines I was able to recover 8122 RTTY contest contacts
> made with WF1B from 1992 to 1997.
>
> In the Win95 machine I found copies most of the logs that were on the PC that had the hard drive failure.  I was able to recover
> 29,532 RTTY contest QSO's made with WriteLog from 1999-2002. Still missing about two years of logs 1997-1998 which I believe are
> permanently lost.
>
> I also found CW logs containing 3750 contacts and PHONE logs with 439 contacts.
>
> All 41,843 QSO's were just uploaded to LoTW a few minutes ago.
>
> In addition, I found logs for the 1992 P40RY CQWW RTTY contest effort, my 1993 HK0/AA5AU DXpedition (both CW & RTTY logs), and my
> 1994 ARRL RTTY Roundup effort as C6A/AA5AU.  These logs have NOT been uploaded to LoTW yet.  I am in the process of getting the
> certificates for these callsigns and will upload these logs when possible.
>
> The total number of RTTY contacts in my master log is now 123,436.  This does not include hand logged RTTY contacts prior to using
> WF1B in 1992, which I have but that's a project for a later time (including hand logged VP5, more C6A, V2 & VP2M logs). hi
>
> Hope to get on to make a few contacts in WAEDC RTTY this weekend...
>
> 73, Don AA5AU
> http://www.aa5au.com
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