Got the official results from the 2008 Worked All Europe RTTY contest which took place in November. They send a great amount of information with the results that show what was logged which was in error/rejected and why. I had a 1.48% reduction due to errors associated with logging a call or QTC. If I recall, I think it’s real hard to tell if a received QTC is in error or not as you only receive it once from the other station and don’t really have anything to compare it against.

The results show that K2DSL, with 412 QSOs, 187 QTCs, 288 multipliers reaching 172,512 points for the SINGLE-OP LOW division finished:
#11 in United States,
#2 in Call Area K2,
#36 in World Outside Europe and
#18 in North America.

With my understanding of QTCs now (didn’t know much about them when I did this contest), obviously it would have helped me immensely to send/receive them much more then I did which would have probably increased my score by 50-75% and could have gotten me #1 in my call area. Something to concentrate on for this contest next year.

It really is an impressive amount of work the contest managers need to go through in processing all this and it’s nice to get back such detailed info, so my hat is off to the WAE Contest Committee!

73,
K2DSL