[RTTY] BARTG K4GMH SOE

[Mike]

That was fun, I think as I slowly recover.  Nice to work all and especially
the contest regulars.

Good participation and reasonably good propagation.  Some local storm noise
made 80 and 40 difficult
at the start.  Only worked 2 hours and called it quits due to the storm.
Took an extended break
and got some sleep.  Got back on and picked up some mults on 40 meters that
may not have been able
to get any other time.  Here are some of the less frequent (for me) mults
worked: 3A, 3D2, 9M6, BV,
DV, E2, EK, FP, HI, HP, HZ, J3, J7, JA, LZ, P2, T6, TA, TF, VK, VR, YB & YC,
ZL, ZS.

Found all six continents with a contact spread across the 1849 QSOs of EU -
1031, NA - 733, AF - 5,
AS - 56, SA - 2.  (Yeah, the WL generated continent QSO numbers don't add up
to 1849 - close though.)

Couple of messages received had the time wrong by an hour or more.  Asked
for repeats and got the same
time.  Recorded the time received in the log.  Same for a few RST values
different from the contesting
standard of 599.  Same thing happened.  This issue of "record what was
received even though
wrong" seems to be a topic after every contests.  Will be interesting to
learn what the log checkers have
to say about these occurrences from the normal.

Box score:
*Band*     *QSOs*     *Mults*
80          196         41
40          457         63
20          702         89
15          494         72
*10  *        *   0*         *  0*
Total      1849       265    2,938,320

Never heard anything on 10 meters.  Only listened on Sunday and after a 10
meter spot was seen.   (Did I miss Cycle 24?:>)

Set a personal goal to try and average 60 QSOs per hour for the 30 hours.
Achieved it as the raw totals show.  Will the log checkers be kind?
-- 
   73,
   Mike, K4GMH