Participated in many of the smaller events as well. Take part in the major events (CQWW, CQWPX or RTTYRU) and have Starting with the 2005 CQ Worldwide RTTY event. It was thus a natural progression to move into active RTTY contesting, I have family coming into town so I probably won’t operate much this weekend.Since starting HF operation in 2005, RTTY has been a mode dear to me. The 2nd column indicates QSO for contacts I made, RQTC for QTCs I received from other stations & SQTC for QTCs I sent other stations. Here’s a snapshot of the score summary for N1MM. Here’s a map of the stations I logged over this past weekend produced by ADIF2MAP (click for a larger map): 227 different call signs were logged out of the 309 QSOs logged.
4 stations worked on 4 bands and 10 additional stations worked on 3 bands. Stats show 51 different DXCC entities worked. I finished the 2 hours and the contest working 40m and 80m contacts, mostly local in the US and Canada with only a little DX. There was still activity on 20m but not so much on the higher bands. I stopped mid morning and was gone until 2 hours before the contest ended where it was already dark out. It was good to find and work GU0SUP on 20m in Guernsey. Other than sporadic checks on 10m for a single new station or two, 10m was quiet. 15m had stations on early, but 10m was pretty quiet with just a couple worked.
Sunday morning I could only spend 3 hours on the air before leaving for a football game for the remainder of the day. I came home late and made 9 quick contacts on 40m and 80m. I called it quits on Saturday about 6:30pm local time / 2330z and was gone for the rest of the evening. Since 10m and 15m weren’t super good, I did spend time on 20m with a bunch of stations worked there. About 2 hours after that I worked the same Israeli op on 15m. Just under 1 hour after starting, I heard 4Z5UN in Israel on 10m and I was able to work him for my 1st 10m contact with Israel.
Before I even had 10 contacts logged where I could send a batch of QTCs, stations were sending me there QTCs and I started out almost immediately with more QTCs then QSOs made by me. My second contact on Sat morning was to Saudi Arabia on 10m. It wasn’t as great as the CQ WW weekend but it was good. Conditions on Saturday morning were good with DX open on 10m & 15m to EU. That left the morning and day on Saturday, a little of the morning on Sunday and a couple hours at the end on Sunday. I didn’t operate Fri, Saturday night or most of the day on Sunday as I already had other plans.
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