[RTTY] Surpassing the 100,000 RTTY QSO mark

[John - AI4FR]

Very well done Don!!! Thanks for keeping RTTY alive with them 100000 plus qso's!!

WOW!!!



73
John / AI4FR



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Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 23:09:53 -0600
From: "Don Hill AA5AU" <aa5au at bellsouth.net>
Subject: [RTTY] Surpassing the 100,000 RTTY QSO mark
To: <rtty at contesting.com>
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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
http://www.rttycontesting.com 



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