[LCC] LCC Digest, Vol 134, Issue 3

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Don,

WOW!  I knew you had been dominant, but not to that degree!  
Congratulations!

--Scott, W5WZ



On 2020-01-07 16:41, Don Hill AA5AU wrote:
> Thanks Marcel. The ARRL RTTY Roundup is a special contest for me. I
> won Single Op Low Power in the very first RU in 1989. It was the first
> contest I ever won. When you win a major contest, you get a feeling
> that you want to win again. It took 4 years but I finally won it again
> in 1993.
> 
> I have operated full-time 24-hour efforts in all 32 Roundups to date
> and was fortunate to have won my category 25 times including a 14-year
> winning streak from 1995-2009 in SOLP that included 8 world records in
> SOLP. Only six times did I not win SOLP (1990 3rd, 1991 2nd, 1992 2nd,
> 1994 3rd, 2009 2nd & 2014 2nd). The ARRL added Unlimited classes for
> high and low power in 2014 but I did not start operating in that
> category until the next year 2015. So far I have not been defeated in
> SOLP Unlimited in five tries (not including this year). I own the
> current world record in both the SOLP (2012) and SOLPU (2015)
> categories.
> 
> I have won this contest so many times that for the past few years I no
> longer care about winning. To me, I get more fun out of this contest
> than any other. I obtain rates higher in this contest than any other.
> I hope to continue operating this one until I no longer can. If I
> would only be able to operate one contest a year, it would be this
> one.
> 
> 73, Don AA5AU