I’m about 1 week late in posting this, but it’s a been a busy week at work and I have time now to get a quick update online.
The RTTY RoundUp is a great start to the year in an anyone-can-work-anyone RTTY contest. I got started just a little late after picking up one of my daughters from NYC. Conditions were ok but not a huge amount of DX so I turned the antenna back across the US and worked a lot of NA stations. I started out on 10m and worked my way down to 15m and 20m. 15m was very good working US stations as well as DX stations without having to point to EU. After dark I moved to 40m and it was very active being able to work much of the US without issue and even some easy DX. Later I went to 80m and there was a also lot of activity. Working 80m gave me a much of state multipliers in the surrounding states I hadn’t yet worked. I called it a night with 400 Qs in the log .
After waking up Sunday morning, I got back on and worked a good number of new NA stations on 40m before hitting the higher bands. Conditions seemed good on Sunday morning and I was pointing at Europe working stations on 10, 15 & 20m with ease. By the end of the morning I needed to call it quits. I had 100 Qs on all bands except 10m.
The log showed 564 stations worked with 52 of the 63 states/provinces accounted for. In the US I didn’t log Rhode Island, DC, Arkansas, Mississippi and Utah. The other 6 that were missed were Canadian Provinces. Looks like across the bands there were 41 unique DXCCs logged. 375 unique stations were worked.
N1MM Summary:
Band QSOs Pts Sec DXCC
3.5 109 109 1 0
7 142 142 10 4
14 110 110 12 8
21 132 132 22 13
28 71 71 7 13
Total 564 564 52 38
Score : 50,76073,
K2DSL