[RTTY] 10 Meters for NAQP RTTY

[Jeff Stai]

I also did a prediction run using the excellent server at k6tu.net. If you
look at the 1800-1900z results you'll see that 10 was predicted to be open
in a swath on the eastern US bordered on the west by MI, IN, KY, TN, MS,
LA, and a small chunk of southern TX. Everything west of that was "NIL".
Other than CA, NV, and AZ, that's what ended up in my log. And it also
explains why I could work IN, but all of the IL and WI I tried to move from
15 were no shows. For those of you that did try, thanks for giving it a
shot. 73 jeff wk6i

ps: I have a screen shot of the map. I'm happy to send it via PM to any
that would like to see it.


On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 8:58 AM, Kermit (aka Ken) via RTTY <
rtty at contesting.com> wrote:

> 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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