[RTTY] VP2E/W1UE Results

[Dennis]

I recently completed a small DXpedition to VP2E, Anguilla, for the CQWW 
CW contest.  For those interested, I used a barefoot K3 on AFSK, 100w to 
a K4KIO Heaxagonal Wire Beam 16 meters high on 20 thru 10M, and dipoles 
on 80/30M 10meters high and a dipole on 40M 13meters high.  The station 
was on the north side of the island, with pretty much a water view from 
Europe to JA, roughly a mile from the sea.  Anguilla is NA-022, CQ zone 
8, ITU zone 11, and we were in grid square FK88lf.

Prior to the contest, I wanted to activate RTTY for the island, and made 
about 1350 QSOs on RTTY from there, band breakdowns as follows:
80M       62
40M     124
30M     147
20M     300
17M     220
15M     221
12M     202
10M       74
Total   1350

By Continent:
No Amer     744
Europe        464
Asia             115
So Amer        13
Africa             11
Oceania           3

I tried to concentrate on the WARC bands, Europe, and JA, but 15 and 20M 
propagation was just sooo good!  I also found I went through several 
iterations of replying to stations that may be of benefit to others.  At 
first, I just started sending "W1XXX 599".  That resulted in a lot of 
silence when I stopped transmitting- the pile-up hadn't yet stopped.  I 
then went to "W1XXX 599 W1XXX".  That was a little better, but still, 
too often silence greeted me when I stopped transmitting.  The best 
trade-off in rate vs repeats seemed to come when I sent "W1XXX 599 Op 
Dennis W1XXX"- the last callsign was now after the pile-up had subsided, 
and I never heard silence when I stopped transmitting.

QSOs are now on LOTW, QSLs have been ordered, and I should be able to 
start sending out paper QSLs in the next week or so.

I hope everyone had as much fun working me as I did working them!

Dennis VP2E/W1UE