[RTTY] RTTY Honor Roll and SV2ASP/A too!

[k0bx at arrl.net]

Hi Guys, some of you might recognize my call-sign, K0BX, as I have been on 20 
meter RTTY for the past 38 years (1974) and in most of the RTTY contests.
Well, I finally made RTTY Honor Roll.  At the end of 2011 I had 329 confirmed on 
RTTY.  I then got PJ5/SP6IXF in the mail bring the total to 330.
So I looked at my needs list and saw that XV2RZ was going to be on RTTY.  I 
watch for him every day and found him on 20 meter RTTY at high noon local time.  
After the Europeans faded away, I was able to snag him.  Oh happy days!!  But, 
like they say on TV, there's more!  3 weeks later I was tuning around 20 RTTY at 
my early gray-line (5 PM Local) and found SV2ASP/A calling CQ!  I have been 
trying to work him since he got on RTTY in the 90's.  He finally stopped calling 
CQ, I called and he came right back!  When we finished our QSO, I expected a 
pileup, but no, only one 2 land station called and worked him.  The Monk went 
back to calling CQ.  I didn't want to spot him as I wanted others that were 
tuning the band to work him first, but no one was comming back to his call.  So 
I wented ahead a spotted him.  After that a small pileup started and the Monk 
stayed on RTTY for several hours giving out a new one to many.

I am going to Dayton Hamvention this week and will have my cards check.  So in a 
week or two my RTTY Count will be update.  I don't think in my lifetime that I 
will get to "Top of the Honor Roll on RTTY" but at least now I am up with the 
big boys; NA0Y, N4CC, AA5AU and WX5L.

BTW here is the list of remaining countries that I need on RTTY:
1A, 7O, BS7, BV9, FT5W, VK0M, VU7, ZS8.  No I  have not worked the 7O6T on RTTY 
yet.  I have tried but when he is readable here, the pileups are really big.

I will see some of you at the RTTY Forum Noon on Saturday at the Hamvention.

Joe K0BX
Florissant, MO.  Part of the Metro of St. Louis MO
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