<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div><span>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.</span></div><div><br></div><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"> ----- Forwarded Message -----<br> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> "webform@b4h.net" <webform@b4h.net><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> 3830@contesting.com;
aa5au@bellsouth.net <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, November 9, 2014 6:49 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> WAE RTTY AA5AU Single Op LP<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br> WAE DX Contest, RTTY<br><br>Call: AA5AU<br>Operator(s): AA5AU<br>Station: AA5AU<br><br>Class: Single Op LP<br>QTH: LA<br>Operating Time (hrs): <br>Radios: SO2R<br><br>Summary:<br> Band QSOs Pts QTCs Mults<br>------------------------------<br> 80: 32 0 16<br> 40: 73 60 30<br> 20: 260 200 70<br> 15: 418 568 92<br> 10: 292 602
77<br>------------------------------<br>Total: 1075 0 1430 285 Total Score = 1,583,160<br><br>Club: Louisiana Contest Club<br><br>Comments:<br><br>Didn't plan on spending this much time in the contest. The priorities for the<br>weekend were to get FT4TA in the log on 30 and 80 meters. I spent a good bit of<br>time calling them on 80 CW Friday night before finally making the contact. Then<br>did the same Saturday evening on 30 meter RTTY and worked them there to<br>complete the bands I needed.<br>Conditions were pretty good. Glad it was a "Work all Europe" contest<br>because there were a LOT of Europe! Fifteen was the best overall band for QSOs<br>and mults but ten was king for QTC traffic.<br>Having not done serious efforts in this contest for a couple few years, I<br>decided to go back to what I do best - low power. Running SO2R I devised a plan<br>to RECEIVE as many QTCs as possible. With two 2Tone decode windows and one
MMTTY<br>window on each radio, receiving QTCs are nearly painless. While RECEIVING QTCs I<br>could still transmit legally on the other radio. This strategy worked very well.<br>Out of 1430 QTCs logged, I only sent 220 of them. In my case, it's better to<br>RECEIVE than to give. HI<br>There are still a lot of people who shy away from QTC traffic but that's OK.<br>And there are still some in Europe who believe they can only receive QTCs. In<br>those cases I had to send mine.<br>It was not a 100% all out effort. I took a lot of breaks and some time off to<br>help the XYL clean up the garage Sunday and took some time to go to the grocery<br>store before the end of the contest. After working FT4TA on 80, then on 30<br>meters, I didn't go back to the contest on the low bands and thus my low band<br>totals are, well, low.<br>One observation the past couple of RTTY contests. With the popularity of JT65<br>and JT9, the low end of the 10, 15 and 20 meter RTTY
sub-bands are now .080. I<br>looked below .080 a couple of times on those bands but did not hear any RTTY<br>signals. I think this is a good thing.<br>I had a lot of fun. I really enjoy exchanging QTCs. It's a challenge, but with<br>2Tone and multiple decode windows, it's much easier than back in the day.<br>Thanks to everyone for the contacts. I don't know when I'll get a chance at<br>another decent effort in this contest so glad I was able to get some good seat<br>time this year in case conditions start to go down.<br><br>73, Don AA5AU<br><br><br>Posted using 3830 Score Submittal Forms at: <a href="http://www.3830scores.com/" target="_blank">http://www.3830scores.com/</a><br><br><br></div> </div> </div> </blockquote><div></div> </div></body></html>