Last weekend I decided to have a little dabble in the WAE RTTY Contest, this wasn’t a serious effort; more a have a play and see what could be added to my logbook. Doing a little bit of search and pounce and in the end called CQ a few times, but only got very short runs on 20 and 80m (the only QSOs on the band).
I found conditions hard going, but they didn’t look any different to the usual averages; so I’m guessing this was purely related to the antennas 1/2 G5RV and a 80m quarter wave L and the 50w from the Yaesu FT-950 none the less I had fun. This was also the first contest where I used Win-Test, for the whole operation with MMTTY and it worked pretty much flawlessly. Only one issue where clicking on the DX Cluster spots; it would switch the rig to LSB which got very annoying, but this was down to operating in AFSK I believe.
Total operating time was 7 hours 26 minutes according to Win-Test, and I can report some reasonable stuff worked including Japan and Mexico and lots of North America (All bands but 80m!) ending up with 200 QSOs.
Summary:
BAND QSO DUP MLTS QTC POINTS AVG
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80 14 0 5 0 14 1.00
40 55 0 21 0 55 1.00
20 83 0 34 0 83 1.00
15 18 0 13 0 18 1.00
10 30 0 16 0 30 1.00
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TOTAL 200 0 209 0 200 1.00
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TOTAL SCORE : 41 800
