[RTTY] CQWW DX RTTY OZ1ADL

[K0RC - Robert Chudek]

As a long-time RTTY enthusiast and admirer of the talented Ham Band, I think 
there might be a new song brewing after this event!  ?

73 de Bob - KØRC in MN (1/6th of the KØIR MO2T RTTY Team)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jan Thøgersen" <jan at thogersen.dk>
To: <rtty at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 3:32 AM
Subject: [RTTY] CQWW DX RTTY OZ1ADL


>        CQ Worldwide DX Contest, RTTY
>
> Call: OZ1ADL
> Operator(s): OZ1ADL, OZ1JUX, OZ7AM
> Station: OZ1ADL
>
> Class: M/S HP
> QTH: Galten
> Operating Time (hrs):
>
> Summary:
> Band  QSOs  Pts   State/Prov  DX   Zones
> ------------------------------------------
>   80:  406   867       15      63    18
>   40:  426   968       26      63    20
>   20:  875  2300       53      85    33
>   15:  280   749       32      84    30
>   10:   13    32        0       6     5
> ------------------------------------------
> Total: 2000  4916      126     301   106  Total Score = 2,620,228
>
> Club: Bavarian Contest Club
>
> Comments:
>
> Holy  Moly - What a week-end !
>
> This was my first major RTTY - week-end ever...
>
>
> I thought  Iknew what it was like to do a major RTTY Contest, but this one
> surely beats them all !!!!
> I had planned some Radio time this time, along with family activities and
> started out all alone, but after 18 hours and 18 minutes, I had beat 
> OZ1AAs
> existing SOAB Danish  CQWW RTTY Record from 2001 of 831,776 points - and 
> things
> were moving along splendidly ...so I decided to call for a little help 
> from my
> friends and after about 20 hours of operation Kim, OZ1JUX showed up after 
> a
> long drive all the way from Germany, and he took most of the next next 
> night
> after having just had 2 RTTY QSOs in his whole life...Boy, was he in for 
> some
> practising!
>
> He diddled through the night till I came back around 04 and we basically 
> split
> the whole next day until Alex, OZ7AM came over all the way from Copenhagen 
> with
> new energy on sunday morning - and suddenly we found ourselves operating a 
> nice
> little MultiSingle operaion on RTTY for the first time, with a lot of life 
> in
> the Shack, frozen microwave food, visitors, buzzling energy and the 
> station
> working very hard indeed ! And us as well, but during this one, we
> could actually have conversations etc. without anyone shouting CQ Contest 
> in the
> middle of a sentence :-)
>
> We ended up with 2000 QSOs  & 2.620228 points
>
> Holy Moly
>
> 73 de OZ1ADL
>
> Jan
>
>
> http://www.thogersen.dk
>
>
>
>
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