[RTTY] GU0SUP WAEDC

[Phil Cooper]

Hi all,

An excellent contest, and probably my favourite of the year. The QTC's are
great fun, and a real test of concentration.
I only had a few "SRI NO QTC" messages this year, and way less than previous
years, which was good to see.

Conditions could have been better, although they weren't as bad as I thought
they might be. Sadly, there was nothing on 10m here, so missed out on a few
mults there.
The contest started well here, with a nice rate going, and I was planning on
600+ QSO's and 500k points. The afternoon slowed down a bit on 15 and 20,
but during the evening, 40 opened nicely. I did make contact with JA6ZPR on
40m, but the contact failed due to HA5OMM repeatedly calling me! Boy, that
got me rattled!
Also nice to work some W's on 40 during the course of the evening.

I had to call it a day by about 2300UTC on Saturday, as I was just too tired
to concentrate. Went to bed, and planned to be up at 0500. Somehow woke up
just after then, but fell asleep again, and didn't wake till 0700.
Oh well, missed 80/40, but my first contact on Sunday morning was with JA7IC
on 20m, and we exchanged QTC's.
I also enjoyed exchanging QTC's with Bud VA7ST, as conditions were that
good, and also with RG9A on 80!
Until about 1800 on the Sunday, I had more QTC's than QSO's in the log!
Ended up the contest on 80m, and had a real ball there with a huge pile-up.

Had a few lowlights, such as HA5OMM screwing up my contact with JA6ZPR on
40m, but also a few stations calling me, and then not replying when I went
back to them, only to call again after me sending QRZ?
And then there were a few stations, who, in the midst of my small pile-ups,
asked me to QSY NOW to another band!

There were numerous highlights for me, and working VE6YR and VA7ST are up
there, also the W6/W7's, and others.

Anyway, enough of that, so here is what I am claiming:
CALL: GU0SUP
Single OP., All Band, Low Power
 	 QSOs	QTCs	Multipliers
80m: 	134	10	104
40m:	125	10	123
20m:	279	353	126
15m:	32	93	34
10m:	0	0	0
Total:	570 +	466     *   387	= 400932

Had all 10 W call areas, and VE1 - VE7, on 20m, and even got W1 - W4 and VE3
on 40m.
Station:
Rig:   IC756Pro at 100 watts
S/W: Writelog 10.63H
Antennas: 2-ele mini-beam, plus Inverted L for 40/80

Thanks to all for the fun, and my log is already on LoTW, but paper cards
are still most welcome, either bureau or direct.

73 de Phil GU0SUP