[RTTY] GU0SUP Russian WW RTTY SOABLP

[Phil Cooper]

Hi all,

Only a few hours of "playing" in this contest, but even so, I made my best
score yet in this contest.
It was good to see so much participation from the UA stations, with some
rare Oblasts about.
Spent a couple of hours in the morning, and conditions seemed quite good,
but I was hearing G's on 20m as well as JA's! After going shopping and doing
other household chores, I boooked a couple more hours in the shack, but what
happened to the bands? 20m just faded away until there was almost nothing
around. I could only hear a few of the big-guns, and they weren't hearing
me.
I tried 40m, but there weren't too many stations about, although I picked up
a few mults.
After tea, I was hoping for a better session on the lower bands, and 40m was
OK, but 80m was very noisy, and the QSO count reveals this. Each and every
contact on 80m was hard work.

I was very pleased to work UA0YAY on 40m, as this is Zone 23. Also very
pleasing was working Gerd J3/DL7VOG for a new band-country on 20m. Thanks
Gerd!

I had a problem with UA3SAQ and RA3SI who gave RA as their Oblast, but
writelog would not accept this. I entered RV instead (which is what I think
WL wanted anyway), and then edited the log file afterwards.
Oddly, WL did work with RA last year!

Like many others, I found that WL would not produce a Cabrillo file, but
there is a converter at the SP7DQR website if you need one.

Anyway, here is my claimed score:
A. Single OP., All band
 	 QSOs	Points	DX:	Oblasts
80m: 	13	70	10	2
40m:	57	325	24	17
20m:	152	1020	38	29
15m:	2	20	2	0
10m:	0	0	0	0
Total:	224	1435	74	48

Total multipliers:	122
Score:		            175070

Thanks to all for the fun, and my log is already on LoTW.

73 de Phil GU0SUP