[RTTY] VP2E/W1UE Results

[Andrei Stchislenok]

Dennis, thank you very much for 9 QSO's RTTY on 8 bands. This was awesome!
Got NEW Ones on several Bands, very happy!
God Bless you, Dennis!

2010/12/16 Dennis <egan.dennis88 at gmail.com>

> 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
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