Worlded All Europe RTTY, 8. November 2003
HB9CZF - SOAB LP
My initial plan was to try SO2R and operate all 36 hours. I abanded my plan. Friday I visited my dad's and instead of my planned work (several cables, a SG-231 control box) we ended up building his KPA100 (100W PA for K2). Late evening I arrived at my contest hut and I started to install my rig. Soon I had to learn that I have to much 50Hz hum on the RX-line. Therefore I changed the setup to TT only and the desperately needed AF-transformers are a project for the future.
Omni VI+ was operating in FSK mode (a straight cable from COM1); audio was connected between "Audio OUT" at the back and "Line IN" at the Soundblaster. Some OM/YL called up to 200Hz away from my QRG and I RIT-ed them in or pressed the AFC button on MMTTY. BTW: don't forget to switch off AFC when you start S&P later!
Conds overall were not great. Weak signals on higher bands and QRN on 40 and 80m.
Highlights were: VK9XG lonely on 15m, I cracked AP2IA pile-up, lonely 3B8/PA0VHA on 20m,
and ZA1A on 40 and 15m.
Over the weekend I could work all stations I heard but rarely got an answer (espcially on
the higher bands) when I CQ-ed. Therefore, I assume the activity from DX wasn't to high
and for Europe I'm to central. Forget a decent signal within 1000km (DL, G, OK, OM, 9A,
S5, ...) from HB on 20, 15 and 10m.
Writelog performed without issues. The only problem was between the keyboard and the chair. I messed up a few QTC from Scott, VE1OP. Other people asked questions and I typed my reply directly in the Rttyrite window. Everybody received diddles from me until Bill, K2NJ told me. Aha, ALT-K was the solution and suddendly people responded to my queries, hi.
Before WAE RTTY I installed a new toy on my PC. MultiNEC by Dan, AC6LA, acts as a frontend for VOACAP. I had VOACAP installed since a few months, played a bit but it has way to many parameters and options. MultiNEC drills it down to a few. Great software!
I never played WAE RTTY but I assumed activity comes form K/VE and JA. This is now confirmed. Pictures below show the 10m opening between JA and Europe. Each picture shows a consecutive hour starting with the first at 4am UTC. Since WAE RTTY is a rather slow contest I had plenty of time to check this simulation against real world.
Rig: Ten-Tec OMNI VI+ with FSK
Ant: 3el Yagi for 10-20m and 41m LW for 40/80m.
Log: Writelog 10.42C
Claimed Score
QSOs QTCs Multipliers
80m: 34 0 72 40m: 77 18 108 20m: 95 50 90 15m: 118 283 90 10m: 33 70 34
Total: 357 + 421 * 394 = 306532
Rate Sheet
QSO/DXCC by hour and band
Hour 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm OffTime
D1-0300Z - 29/14 - - - 29/14 29/14 D1-0400Z 29/17 4/1 - - - 33/18 62/32 D1-0500Z - 15/8 12/4 - - 27/12 89/44 D1-0600Z - 5/4 1/0 13/9 - 19/13 108/57 D1-0700Z - - 21/14 9/3 5/1 35/18 143/75 D1-0800Z --+-- --+-- 6/3 10/2 8/3 24/8 167/83 D1-0900Z - - 9/4 9/4 3/0 21/8 188/91 D1-1000Z - - 13/3 4/2 1/1 18/6 206/97 25 D1-1100Z - - - - - 0/0 206/97 60 D1-1200Z - - 2/1 10/8 3/3 15/12 221/109 7 D1-1300Z - - 4/2 12/5 6/5 22/12 243/121 D1-1400Z - - 8/3 11/3 3/2 22/8 265/129 D1-1500Z - - 3/1 16/4 4/2 23/7 288/136 D1-1600Z --+-- --+-- 1/0 19/2 --+-- 20/2 308/138 D1-1700Z - 10/5 11/7 1/0 - 22/12 330/150 D1-1800Z - 14/4 4/3 4/3 - 22/10 352/160 D1-1900Z 5/1 - - - - 5/1 357/161
Total: 34/18 77/36 95/45 118/45 33/17
Country & Call Area Distribution
80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total
3B8 1 1
3W 1 1
4X 2 2
5B 1 1 1 3
9A 1 2 3
A6 1 1
AP 1 1
CT 1 1
CT3 1 1 2
DL 12 2 3 7 2 26
EA 1 1
EA8 2 1 3
ER 1 1
ES 1 2 1 4
EU 1 1 2 1 5
F 1 1 1 1 4
G 3 1 4
GI 1 1
GM 1 2 3
HA 1 1
HB 1 1
I 1 1 1 3 1 7
IT9 1 2 2 5
JA 1 5 6
K 9 6 44 9 68
LA 2 1 3
LU 1 1
LX 1 1 2
LY 1 2 3 6
LZ 1 1 2 4
OH 1 6 4 3 14
OK 2 1 3
ON 1 1 2
OZ 1 1
PY 2 1 2 5
SM 1 3 2 6
SP 3 5 3 1 12
SV 1 1 2 4
TA 1 1 1 3
TF 1 1
UA 3 14 18 18 12 65
UA2 1 1 2
UA9 4 7 2 13
UN 1 1 2
UR 5 9 2 16
VE 3 3 8 1 15
VK9X 1 1
VR 1 1
XE 1 1
YB 1 1
YL 1 2 1 4
YO 2 2 4
YU 1 1 2
YV 1 1 2
Z3 1 1 2
ZA 1 1 2
ZF 1 1
ZL 1 1
Contintent Distribution
80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total %
AS 0 3 8 19 3 33 9.2
NA 0 13 9 53 10 85 23.8
EU 34 60 71 41 16 222 62.2
AF 0 1 3 1 1 6 1.7
SA 0 0 3 2 3 8 2.2
OC 0 0 1 2 0 3 0.8
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