[LCC] Fw: WAE RTTY AA5AU Single Op LP

[Don AA5AU]

I'm sitting atop the 3830 leader board for single op low power. The score may be good enough for NA or USA but certainly not the World.

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>From: "webform at b4h.net" <webform at b4h.net>
>To: 3830 at contesting.com; aa5au at bellsouth.net 
>Sent: Sunday, November 9, 2014 6:49 PM
>Subject: WAE RTTY AA5AU Single Op LP
> 
>
>                    WAE DX Contest, RTTY
>
>Call: AA5AU
>Operator(s): AA5AU
>Station: AA5AU
>
>Class: Single Op LP
>QTH: LA
>Operating Time (hrs): 
>Radios: SO2R
>
>Summary:
>Band  QSOs  Pts  QTCs  Mults
>------------------------------
>   80:   32          0    16
>   40:   73         60    30
>   20:  260        200    70
>   15:  418        568    92
>   10:  292        602    77
>------------------------------
>Total: 1075   0   1430   285  Total Score = 1,583,160
>
>Club: Louisiana Contest Club
>
>Comments:
>
>Didn't plan on spending this much time in the contest. The priorities for the
>weekend were to get FT4TA in the log on 30 and 80 meters. I spent a good bit of
>time calling them on 80 CW Friday night before finally making the contact. Then
>did the same Saturday evening on 30 meter RTTY and worked them there to
>complete the bands I needed.
>Conditions were pretty good. Glad it was a "Work all Europe" contest
>because there were a LOT of Europe! Fifteen was the best overall band for QSOs
>and mults but ten was king for QTC traffic.
>Having not done serious efforts in this contest for a couple few years, I
>decided to go back to what I do best - low power. Running SO2R I devised a plan
>to RECEIVE as many QTCs as possible. With two 2Tone decode windows and one MMTTY
>window on each radio, receiving QTCs are nearly painless. While RECEIVING QTCs I
>could still transmit legally on the other radio. This strategy worked very well.
>Out of 1430 QTCs logged, I only sent 220 of them. In my case, it's better to
>RECEIVE than to give. HI
>There are still a lot of people who shy away from QTC traffic but that's OK.
>And there are still some in Europe who believe they can only receive QTCs. In
>those cases I had to send mine.
>It was not a 100% all out effort. I took a lot of breaks and some time off to
>help the XYL clean up the garage Sunday and took some time to go to the grocery
>store before the end of the contest. After working FT4TA on 80, then on 30
>meters, I didn't go back to the contest on the low bands and thus my low band
>totals are, well, low.
>One observation the past couple of RTTY contests. With the popularity of JT65
>and JT9, the low end of the 10, 15 and 20 meter RTTY sub-bands are now .080. I
>looked below .080 a couple of times on those bands but did not hear any RTTY
>signals. I think this is a good thing.
>I had a lot of fun. I really enjoy exchanging QTCs. It's a challenge, but with
>2Tone and multiple decode windows, it's much easier than back in the day.
>Thanks to everyone for the contacts. I don't know when I'll get a chance at
>another decent effort in this contest so glad I was able to get some good seat
>time this year in case conditions start to go down.
>
>73, Don AA5AU
>
>
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