SARTG New Year RTTY Contest
Call: P49X
Operator(s): W0YK
Station: P40L/P49Y
Class: SOAB
QTH: Aruba
Operating Time (hrs): 3
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band Qs Mults
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80: 20 6
40: 61 19
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Total: 81 25 Total Score = 2,025
Club: Northern California Contest Club
Comments:
Thanks for the QSOs! That was fun. At least I seem to remember it was fun.
I'd been up for 50 hours with only 1.5 hours sleep when doing it. Now, with
a whopping four hours of sleep I'm a bit groggy. Arrived at midnight New
Year's Eve with the whole island exploding in fireworks. It was quite a
sight from the plane and even moreso on the ground where there was so much
smoke from the explosions that we were choking.
I was wondering why everyone was sending RST in the exchange and checked the
rules again this morning and see that was required. Sorry folks ... it was
the sleep deprivation. I arrived at the station at 1pm and started setting
up the three computers and two K3s I had in my carry-on luggage. (How often
can you carry a SO2R station on the plane with you?) Had a number of issues
as always, so wasn't as well setup as I'd like, but I was happy to be able
to operate. Trying to make sure I got a good print on 'HAPPY NEW YEAR' in a
foreign language I don't understand was tricky. Log checking must be
exciting in this contest.
I was able to work a few EU stations at 08Z from here on 80, but most
couldn't hear me over the other EU stations calling. I had to wait until
now one was calling and even then I got CQ'd in my face. Of course, 40 was
wide open the whole contest period. However, most signals were marginal
copy for me. The 08-11Z time slot is when I'm usually taking breaks in
Round-Up so I don't expect much anyway. There were some EU stations with
twice my QSO total. I had a couple JAs call in and one ZL that I never
could get, even with the East-West Beverage. Everything else was NA and EU.
Worked a few CA stations, but none from my club, NCCC. Guess they were
either celebrating or sleeping.
See you in the Round-Up practices tonight.
Ed - P49X (W0YK)
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