[UK-CONTEST] GW3NJW WAEDC RTTY SOHPUA

[Clive Whelan]

Decided virtually on the spur of the moment, and in view of the 
cancellation of an event in my extensive (?) social 
calendar-owing to the inclement weather-, that I should get my 
feet wet on RTTY insted of tramping across boggy fields.

Sooooh my first ever RTTY QSO in modern times ( I am an old 
Creed 7B freak from the '70s!), was in the WAE contest. The jury 
is still out on whether this was a wise decision; suffice it to 
say that my feet got more than damp, and Wellies would have been 
an appropriate choice of footware in the shack! OK, so I have 
operated WAE on CW , and I know what QTCs are all about, at 
least on the receive side, but this was a quite different 
experience. In the CW event it was necessary to beg for QTCs, 
which made it tough, but I never dreamed that there would be a 
problem in " giving them away" in this event. Indeed there was, 
and bizarrely I failed to dispose of even 50% of my own QSOs. 
This- in hindsight- was due to a virtual total lack of strategy, 
and not really trying until the Sunday. This was a double edged 
sword, because I  was then so busy trying to send QTCs, that I 
had no time to concentrate on receiving them. My excuse?, I 
didn't really decide to do anything until almost midday Sunday. 
I can now see that if I had put in a full 36 hours *and* had a 
proper QTC strategy, that based on last year's results, other 
things being equal ( which they seldom are), that I could have 
made the top ten box. Oh well, sometimes scratch efforts go 
better than anything else, and now there is a target for next 
year.


73

Clive
GW3NJW



2002
+- WAE RTTY CONTEST -+

CALL: GW3NJW      
_____ Single OP., All Band , High Power,Unassisted 
         
   QSOs QTCs Mults 
80m:  27 0 56
40m: 101 40 111
20m: 128 67 92
15m: 187 195 118
10m: 152 78 102
Total: 595 + 380     * 479 = 467025

Station Description: TS870S, Alpha 78-400watts, Writelog 10.36G
                     MMTTY
Antenna(s):W1CF-Butternut hybrid array, 212ft inverted vee 
doublet at 30 ft. 
 
Off times ( > 1 hour): Saturday 00:00 to 11:29, 14:18 to        
                15:23,19:48 to 22:16,
                       22:44 to 00:40 Sunday 
                       02:03 to 10:04, 16:52 to 17:53 
Operating time: ca. 22 hours
This is to certify that in this contest I have operated my 
transmitter within the limitations of my license and have 
observed fully the rules and regulations of the contest.

Signature C Whelan  Call GW3NJW
Clive Whelan, GW3NJW 
Station House 
Peterston-super-Ely 
Cardiff, CF5 6NE, United Kingdom

80m Summary
Countries
DL     G      GM     I      LY     OH     OK     SM     SP     
T9     UA     UN     UR     Z3     

Call Areas


40m Summary
Countries
8P     A4     CN     DL     ER     G      HA     I      K      
LA     OE     OH     ON     PA     PY     S5     SM     SP     
SV     TF     UA     UA9    UN     UR     VE     YL     YU     
YV     Z3     ZC4    

Call Areas
K1   K2   K3   K4   K8   K9   
VE3  VE9  
PY7  
UA90 UA99 


20m Summary
Countries
9A     A4     DL     EI     EU     F      G      HA     HB     I 
     
IT9    JA     K      LX     LY     OH     OK     ON     PA    PY 
    
S5     SP     SV     T9     TA1    TF     TK     UA     UA9   UR 
    
VE     YL     YO     YU     Z3     ZL     

Call Areas
K0   K1   K2   K3   K4   K5   K8   K9   
VE1  VE3  
JA2  
ZL2  
PY2  PY7  
UA90 UA99 


15m Summary
Countries
3X     4J     5B     9A     A4     CN     CX     DL     EA     
ER     EU     F      G      GU     GW     HA     I      IT9  
K      KP4    LU     LY     LZ     OE     OH     OK     OM     
PA     PY     S5     SM     SP     SV     TA1    UA     UA9    
UK     UN     UR     VE     XE     YL     YO     YU     YV     
Z3     

Call Areas
K0   K1   K2   K3   K4   K5   K6   K7   K8   K9   
VE1  VE2  VE3  VE4  VE5  
PY2  
UA99 


10m Summary
Countries
3X     4J     4X     5B     9A     AP     CN     CP     CT3    
DL     EA     ER     ES     EU     G      HA     I      IT9   
K      LY     LZ     OH     OK     PY     SP     SV     UA     
UA9    UN     UR     VE     YL     YO     YU     Z3     

Call Areas
K0   K1   K2   K3   K4   K5   K6   K7   K8   K9   
VE1  VE3  VE4  VE6  VE7  VE9  
PY2  PY4  PY7  
UA99