[RTTY] ANARTS 2009

Fri Jun 26 09:58:44 PDT 2009

Hi Rag,

The ANARTS contest is finishing because they do not have any members who 
will take over the running of the contest. It is very sad to lose a contest 
that has been around for so long.

ANARTS, BARTG and the other original 'teleprinter' groups are run by 
volunteers from their membership. The fact is that even when a group has 
100s or 1000s of members, there will only be a small number who actually do 
anything for the group. When membership falls to very low numbers there is 
nobody left to run anything ........

73,

John GW4SKA
BARTG Contest Manager (and ANARTS for this year only)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stein Roar LA6FJA-K3RAG" <s-roabr at online.no>
To: "Andrei Stchislenok" <asnp3d at gmail.com>; <pcooper at guernsey.net>
Cc: "RTTY" <rtty at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 8:31 PM
Subject: [RTTY] ANARTS 2009

> Hi
>
> why are ANARTS closing down?
> it was sad to read
>
> 73s LA6FJA Rag
>
>> From: Andrei Stchislenok [asnp3d at gmail.com]
>> Sent: 2009-06-16 03:47:36 CEST
>> To: pcooper at guernsey.net
>> Cc: RTTY [rtty at contesting.com]
>> Subject: Re: [RTTY] GU0SUP ANARTS 2009
>>
>> Hey Phil;
>>
>> Great score indeed!
>>
>> I agree with you that this is sad we are missing such a nice Contest...
>>
>> It was a pleasure as usual to print you, Phil!
>>
>> 73's Andrei NP3D/W2
>>
>> 2009/6/15 Phil Cooper <pcooper at guernsey.net>
>>
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > Sad to know this is the last ever ANARTS! What a pity it has to close, 
>> > as
>> > the format is excellent, and makes you work harder.
>> >
>> > On the up-side, it was great to see 10m and 15m open, but what a pain 
>> > that
>> > the solar figures were so poor.
>> > I guess 10m was all Es, but 15m opened lightly to the States, and I 
>> > managed
>> > a few extra mults that way. Also bagged LT0H on 15m for continent 
>> > number 5,
>> > but missed out completely on OC. I did hear John 9M6XRO on 20m with a 
>> > huge
>> > pile-up, but he was suffering from bad QRN and couldn't hear a lot of 
>> > the
>> > callers.
>> >
>> > As I was busy on Saturday morning, I didn't get to start the contest 
>> > until
>> > after lunchtime, so it was a real plus to see the higher bands open. 
>> > The
>> > downside to that was the fact that 80m was very noisy, so I didn't 
>> > bother
>> > with that band.
>> >
>> > I spent most of my time calling CQ, which was fun, but with the short 
>> > skip
>> > on 20m, I had to resort to periods of S&P to pick up some of the mults.
>> >
>> > Was it just me, or were there a lot of folk responding to a CQ with 
>> > GU0SUP
>> > GU0SUP GU0SUP DE XX1XX XX1XX XX1XX PSE KN?
>> > I had a lot more of this than usual, and it often resulted in QSB 
>> > catching
>> > their call, and when I asked for their call, all they sent was the same
>> > message!
>> > Not sure why, but I also had more than a few callers (when I was CQ'ing
>> > above 14.105) who got my report, but then sent me their name, QTH, WW 
>> > LOC,
>> > station details, QSL route, etc etc!
>> > And did you also suffer from those who were sending serial numbers 
>> > instead
>> > of the time?? My first one sent me TU 599 065 065 065 BK, and when I 
>> > asked
>> > for the time, he sent NO TIME ONLY NUMBER. Sadly, he didn't get logged
>> > here,
>> > as he did not send me a valid exchange. I wonder HOW he managed to get 
>> > to
>> > 065 and still be sending numbers! And no, it wasn't an IK station in 
>> > the
>> > ARI
>> > Sezzione! He wasn't alone, and I had a few sending numbers, mostly 
>> > below
>> > 010, but almost all sent a time and zone when asked.
>> >
>> > My last rant is about the rather numerous callers who called OVER and
>> > existing QSO, assuming I would drop the contact in progress and work 
>> > them
>> > instead!
>> >
>> > So, down to the figures! Here is what I managed in about 12 hours of
>> > sporadic operating:
>> > Class: SOST LP
>> > QTH:
>> > Operating Time (hrs): 12
>> >
>> > Summary:
>> >  Band  QSOs  Pts   Mults
>> > -------------------------
>> >   80:    0     0     0
>> >   40:   37   119    21
>> >   20:  215  1223    57
>> >   15:   92   416    35
>> >   10:   36   106    20
>> > -------------------------
>> > Total:  380  1864   133  Continents = 5  Total Score = 1,239,560
>> >
>> > Power: 100 watts or less
>> > Ant 1 :  2-ele mini-beam, up 20'
>> > Ant 2 : Inverted L, trapped for 40/80
>> > Rig : IC756pro
>> > Writelog/MMTTY
>> >
>> > My log is now on LoTW, but paper cards are always welcomed!
>> >
>> > 73 all, and I look forward to seeing some of you at the Ham Radio event 
>> > in
>> > Germany in a little under 2 weeks!
>> >
>> > Phil GU0SUP
>> >
>> >
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>>
>>
>> -- 
>> 73's Andrei
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