[RTTY] 10 Meters for NAQP RTTY

[Ktfrog007 at aol.com]

Before the contest I did a quick run-through with HamCAP and the  
indications were that propagation would be 10m<15m<20m and that's how it  turned out. 
 20m was my base band and I made forays upwards, especially to  15m and 
occasionally 10m, but I had only 5 QSOs on 10.
 
In the evenings 40m and 80m did really well but 20m had some kick to it for 
 quite a while.  Got AK there quite late.
 
It was a fun contest.
 
73,
Ken, AB1J
 
 
In a message dated 2016-02-28 4:16:01 P.M. Coordinated Universal Tim,  
akozak at hourglass.com writes:

I  operated on 20, 15 and 10 starting at 1815. After 30 minutes of both S&P 
 and running, I had only 12 contacts, got discouraged and gave up.   
Stations that were S8 and above did not answer repeated calls from me. I think  I 
had one 10m QSO.  Figured I had an antenna problem of some  sort.

Went out to dinner later in the day and gave it a second go  starting 
around 0330. 80m was hopping and I had some great fun there with my  20 foot high 
inverted V that's used only for SS and NAQP. 40m did not seem as  active 
but had great fun there as well with the Butternut vertical.   Ended up with 
110 contacts after an hour and a half of a very unserious  overall effort.

I'm beginning to think that the daytime propagation was  long and my 
vertical was overshooting everyone. On the same antenna at night,  everything was 
normal.

Al
AB2ZY

-----Original  Message-----
From: RTTY [mailto:rtty-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of  John Bastin
Sent: Sunday, February 28, 2016 8:43 AM
To: reflector  RTTY
Subject: Re: [RTTY] 10 Meters for NAQP RTTY

I wasn’t in the  contest for long, but I did get 16 contacts on 10 meters, 
11 from 1912z to  1925z and another 5 from 2014z to 2018z.

73,

John  K8AJS
bastinj at gmail.com
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