SWL WAEDC

European DX-Contest RTTY 2004

Kommentare

7L4IOU: Really fun contest, the QTC rule is interesting.

7N2UQC: I could enjoy this contest. And thanks to all who worked me. Rig: IC-706, ANT: Dipole

9A2KO: Nice ufb contest!!!

9A5W: condx were tipical fpr low sunn activity. RTTY by WF1B Software v5+ K6STI

B4TB: Great fun for sending and receiving QTC on RTTY.

DC3HB: Leider schlechte Bedingungen; bad condx tnx for QSO, cu next year!!

DE0MBS: Zäh... Generated by "SWL Cabrillo" - (c) SP7DQR

DF2RG: "First" WAE RTTY ever! Had to get used to it, and then had to change software in the middle of the contest to try out the QTC "stuff". After some hick ups, everything went OK, more or less. Anyway, in the end it was fun, and I will be there next year again ...

DF6ZY: Besten Dank fuer die Ausrichtung des immer interessanten Contestes. Wahrlich! In diesem Jahr standen leider keine 36 Stunden zur Verfügung. Auch waren die Bedingungen für mich nicht gut. Leistungsbeschränkung. Nächstes Jahr aktiv mit RCKRtty-Software. Bin an der Planung fuer 2005 Korsika, TK, zu aktivieren und suche noch Mitstreiter. Quartier ist schon geplant.

DF7JC: MY FIRST WAEDC RTTY SCORING WAS IN 1983. TODAY IT IS STILL A VERY FINE CONTEST WITH A LOT OF ACTIVITY.

DG7RO: First RTTY-Contest...Funnny, especially the rx of QTC in QRM. Who has stolen the condx? In the evening only 80m was usable. With 70W and duo-dipol calling on 80m was good, on 20m bad...

DH5HV: Congrats for 50 Year WAE-Contest. Funny like always with very poor conditions during the second morning. In the beginning lots of trouble with the logging software made us loosing QSOs and Multis. But after all Writelog performed with less problems than expected and we had great fun together. Equipment at DF0CG perfect like always with no faults or broken parts. The winter can come.

DJ5KX: meine erste Teilnahme

DK0OF: I activated our local clubcall dk0of for a few hours in this contest. With 40 Watts on a dipole I am very lucky to catch 9m2 and yb this are two new one's from the clubstation. Thanks fer all, vy 73 de Ron.

DK1RF: "UNBELIEVABLE"...More QSOs than last year, but less Multis and Points..! I guess that is the RTTY-Spirit, hi!!

DK5WL: Mein erster RTTY-Contest! Wegen PC-Problemen muß ich leider das Log auf Papier einsenden. Die QTCs sind vom Bildschirm abgeschrieben.

DL0DG: Had a lot of fun - cu agn next year! 73 de Bernd, DL1EIC

DL1DTL: Leider hat die automatische Nummerierung der QTC-Serien gesponnen.

DL1JB: TRX: Elecraft K2, abt 10 watts ANT: G5RV halfsize Cu agn next year!

DL1YFF: Leider hatte ich nicht mehr die Zeit an dem Wochenende wegen der Hauptversammlung. Nachdem ich nach Hause gekommen war, blieb nicht mehr viel Zeit, denn die Bänder waren dann auch zu. Deswegen leider nur 50 QSO's.

DL4MFP: Wg. div. fam. Verpflichtungen (mein 40er) leider nur sporadisch QRV .....

DL5KM: hat Spass gemacht......

DL5KMS: Es herrschten sehr "frustrierende" Bedingungen - anfänglich zweifelte ich an meinem Equipment.

DL5XL: I missed both the CW and SSB legs of WAE this year, as I was at sea from July to October, but I did not want to miss the WAE Super Bowl entirely, so I gave RTTY contesting with the SCS PTC-IIpro a try.

DL6MHW: Habe an diesem Wochenende die Mitgliederversammlung des Amateurrats besucht und dabei aus dem Bus noch etwas gefunkt. So konnte ich dem Wochenende doch noch was abgewinnen. Spaß hat es nur teilweise gemacht.

DL7MAE: Mit Ausnahme eines SV9 habe ich nur EU-DX-Verbindungen im Log, wie es sich für einen WAEDC gehört!

DL7VOG: Diesmal leider nur kurz im Contest, hatte das ganze Wochenende über zu arbeiten.

DL8AWK: IC737 Ant: 84cm Loop Indoor! Mit 5 Watt und einer Indoor Ant hat man schon seine Probleme bei diesen Bedingungen. Aber es hat Spass gemacht!

EA4AFP: after many WAE SSB contests as EA1AIB and EA4AFP (since 2002) this has been my first WAE-RTTY. I am sorry for my mistakes, sended several duplicated numbers, I was using MTTY for contesting... but hope to improve for next contest

ES4MM: CONGRATS with 50 Years WAEDC !

F5IHP: alls antennas falls down due to a strong wind !!!

F5RD: A good contest, More QSOs than 2003 but practically the same score. Only 28 QSOs outside Europe and no much QTCs exchanged. Thanks to all who contact me See you again next.

F6FTB: rig K2 from elecraft + 80 watts + dipole bands condx poor saturday; slightly better sunday

F6IRF: KT34@21m 2EL40@22m DIP80@20m

SO1R: IC756pro2/hb amp/MMTTY/N1MM 4.0.179 One of my preferred contest if not my preferred. Score only slighty better than last year despite better station. Terrible meteo conditions with high winds generating high level of power lines QRN... several power cuts (fortunately without PC or log damage). Propagation as bad as meteo conditions: NWRA SSNe (based on ionosonds data) 25 to 40 for the weekend. 80m: high level of static discharges on top of PL QRN - only 5-W / 1VE 40m: band closed to states second part of night - only 39-W despite beam 20m: closed early to W - low level of signs / high PL noise level - only 9-JA 15m: very bad to JA (only 2 wkd) - poor to W / high level of PL noise 10m: a few openings to AS and eastern EU on top of usual AF/SA TEP's Without 40 and so poor 80, I took more rest than expected... Anyway, thanks to DARC for organizing such a nice event and happy birthday!

GØMTN: Very poor conditions, but a great contest. A pleasure to work EU for mults and points in this contest, especially on the low bands Sending / Receiving QTCs was very easy thanks to Writelog, and did a lot to boost my score.

G1W: POOR CONDITION ON 40.ONLY KM4M AND K9MUG/4 FROM USA ON 40!!! ANYWAY,NICE CONTEST, ACTIVITY IS GROWING UP. SEE YOU NEXT YEAR

G3YJQ: Not too much time to operate, but enjoyable

G7TMU: Thanks for running the contest.

GM2Z: The propagation was terrible... There wasn't any desire to take part fully due to poor propagation... Anyway thanks for sponsoring...

GM8OEG: Do we get a refund on our radio licences when conditions are that bad?

GU0SUP: Great fun as always, and fewer stations sending "SRI NO QTC" this year. Fewer QTC's this year due to conditions, but I guess this applies to all. Had to keep checking 10m for any propagation. Thanks to WAEDC team for the great contest, and HAPPY BIRTHDAY! QSO No 011 was a mistake, so it is left out. QSO No 061 was listed because after QSO with 4Z5CP, we had a go at exchanging QTC's and Writelog listed a QSO number.

GW4MVA: Low Power, Low Sunspots, Low Dipole = Low Score Many big teeth and no ears on 80m....! See u next year hi

HB9AVK: TNX for the contest management! For me it was - nice to meet good old friends, - interesting to test filters, macros, antennas and - my (and others) physical constitution, hence, I had some fun most of the time. 73's Paul HB9AVK

I1COB: ALWAYS BEAUTIFUL!!! TNX DE ROBERTO I1COB

I2DMI: Enjoyed taking part to your nice contest. Band's condition was very poor. On Sunday afternoon it was difficult to work so many DX stations to send them all available QTCs. In the evening 14-21-28 were closed. Hvy QRN/QRM/QSB on 3.5 & 7. Thank you for organisation of this nice contest! 73 Frank

IK2LOL: Great contest, real enjoy with n1mm program and qtc. Not a lot time to spend but next year I...

IK5WQO: Hope to be in better antenna conditions next year !

IT9ORA: I am very glad to partecipe in this contest but i was little time, because they are many Stations on the air and this contest it's very interessant many thanks in advance

IT9SGN: Funny contest!

JA2FSM: This contest was in good condition, so that I could enjoy the wonderful contest.

JA2KCY: QTC Rule is very exciting, so that I could enjoy the wonderful contest.

JA5JWQ: This contest was in not good condition, so that I could enjoy the wonderful contest.

JA8EIU: Tnx for nice RTTY's contest.

JF2FIU: It was the contest currently employed happily.

JF2SKV: This contest was in good condition, so that I could enjoy the wonderful contest.

JM1NKT: This contest was in good condition, so that I could enjoy the wonderful contest.

JR3NDM: I had a mistake.

KØHW: Great Contest but poor conditions I thought, It must be the time of year as the band was not open to EU very long and was hard to make contacts that direction. I think I improved on QSO count but the mult count and the QTC count was down from last year. I will see you all in the next year WAE contests, I really like the format and the time span. I plan to keep improving.

K3DI: Software: Two computers used. Hal DXP38 for manaul RTTY and sending QTC from files. Logged with CT. Wrote a program to merge QTC files into Cabrillo from CT. No QTC received. Order of QTC groups sent were 1...9, 13, 10, 11. Missing 12.

K4AQ: WAC (2 of 6): NA, SA Best DX: LW5DR, Necochea (Buenos Aires), Argentina, 5015 mi (per DX Atlas), 1003 mi/watt Heard and called ZL2AMI but no contact. Yaesu FT-897 transceiver operated at 5 watts into an OCF 28-gauge insulated wire stealth antenna up 40 feet in trees next to I-75 in downtown Atlanta industrial area. SGC SG-237 Smartuner. Tigertronics SignaLink SL-1 sound card radio interface. MicroHAM USB rig control interface. WriteLog 10.48f with RTTYrite decoder.

K4GMH: Thanks to the DARC for sponsoring the WAE RTTY Contest. Alway an interesting Contest with the QTC feature. Bands started out in bad shape, but kept improving throughout the Contest. Even 10 meters was open to Europe from the East Coast of USA for a short time on Sunday. A number of Europeans were heard on 80 meters, but they couldn't hear me. Special thanks to all who took the extra effort to copy my QTCs. All the RTTY operators were very courteous and it was a pleasure to participate in this and the other RTTY contests.

K4SV: Had a great time using the new antennas but had to run outside in the cold to switch bands and turn beams because my new installation is not complete. Thanks to everyone, Dave

K5ZD: Many times I was on the air and could not find any EU stations!

K6OWL: Always enjoy the QTCs and work everyone format.

K9BJM: Propagation was minimum at best all weekend.

KA5DON/3: THIS IS MY 1ST RTTY CONTEST, I KNOW I AM NOT A "BIG GUN" BUT I BET I HAD AS MUCH FUN

KB1HDO: Just playing - thanks for a fun event!

KE1F: LOST POWER DURING THE CONTEST. MY FIRST 10 QTC WAS NOT SAVED AND WAS RE-SENT TO CN8KD. PROPAGATION WAS POOR. PERHAPS NEXT YEAR.

KF9YR: Had a busy schedule this weekend but I worked a few stations to give out some points. Condx to Europe were lousy from here. Hope others had better conditions.

KS0M: The first time I worked this contest the QTC's gave me a confusing time. I never tried to send or receive QTC's again. This year I decided that it was time for me to get with the program and learn to S/R QTC's. I sure messed up several S/R. But I finally got the hang of it. Now I will be S/R QTC's in the future. Propagation to EU was very spotty and poor.

LX7I: My first WAE RTTY, only wanted to give out the LX-Multi.

N2FF: I like contests but I don't like QTC's

NC2N: This was my Very first little Contest from new home. Spent just few hours and tripled my last year's result. Checked SpiderBeam antenna just installed. SpiderBeam Works! And most important, I managed to learn about "magic" QTC stuff. Will definitely try harder next year! 73's to All de Andrei EW1AR

NT2A: THANK YOU FOR THE NICE CONTEST

OH2LU: Contest Program OH2GI-HAM SYSTEM 7.1d Homepage for program www.iki.fi/jukka.kallio/

OK2-9329: Very good Contest and perfect DX and EU operators. See you again next year in WAE contests friends.

ON6NL: Fantastic contest! Just wanted to see how my IC756 performs in RTTY and it works great. N1MM did a very good job, just correcting incomming QTCs is not that easy. Hope to make the top-10 in RTTY. Rig - IC756PRO2, Ant - 10/15/20: KT34A, 40: vert+dipol, 80: dipol Software N1MM + MMTTY

ONL383: Very interesting contest as usual but the condx were rather poor. But the activity is growing up every year. Best regards to all entrants.

PA0FAW: there was also the OK/OM contest in cw and as that is easier for me with my indoor longwire I took part in that test. Condx were not very good at least the period that I joined RTTY.

PY2NY: Great challenge using 80 watts, MMTTY and sound board. Was nice to work on QTC. Could be better... Maybe next year!!

RK9CZO: RTTY by WF1B Software v5

RU4SS: I am not sure with score. Sri about AATest soft. See you next year!

RW0AR: My Power is 5 Wts only.

RW9UU: This contest was in good condition, so that I could enjoy the wonderful contest.

S5046A: I took decent participation in all three modes at ripe age of 59!

SM/5B4AGE: Poor condx

SM7ATL: Tnx fer this very nice contest

SP3ASN: first time in test

TF3AO: Operated only few hours. Bad condx, no replies to CQ on 40m.

UAØWL: My second RTTY WAE..and result more then in last year..

UA6XIS: It was my second WAE RTTY. Propagation was not so good on 28-14 MHz. Very few JAs and NAs on 15m. Many participants do not Tx and Rx Qtc's. With 50 anniversary and see you again next year!

US0HZ: THANKS SOO MUCH FOR THE NICE CONTEST

VE1OP: Great contest!! Too bad propagation was poor. In the last hour of the contest which was either via Sporadic E or perhaps Auroral enchancement - S9+20 signal no QSB each way.

VE3ESH: First WAE, loved the QTC rule I just need to be able to send a receive more often, I think better condition would certain help. See you all next year

VE9DX: Not many Europeans heard. To me condx seemed poor. Not a single European worked on 80. TX 30 Watts to a vertical 73 Andy (VE9DX)

VE9MY: Great contest but very poor band conditions

VK6DXI: No Internet or dx-cluster used during the contest. Propagation was not so good on Saturday, but improved on Sunday. It was my first ever WAE RTTY (done CW/SSB this year for Trifactor). Just switched from AFSK to FSK and it worked out perfect. IC756ProII decoder worked slightly better then PK232DSP. WriteLog coped very well with sent and received QTC's. Some stations (mainly JA's) were sending QTC's as one continuous string. This made the deciphering a bit nuisance and frustrating. I love the idea of searching and giving away QTC's... I will try to come back next year. Happy Birthday WAE and congrats DARC !

W0LSD: Tried first M/S and linking laptops with WL. Disaster. Only one computer would communicate. Started with really poor band condx at this latitude.

W2UP: QTC both ways is confusing. Maybe rule should be changed same as CW/SSB?

W4UEF: Many thanks to contest sponsors and all participants. I had a wonderful time.

W4UK: WIRE DIPOLES ONLY.

W7LD: Neat contest. QTC's are fun! See you next year...God willing.

W9ILY: Another great WAE contest. Wish condx had been better!

WM5DX: IT WAS VERY HARD TO WORK THE EU STATIONS FROM TEXAS WITH THE POOR SOLAR CONDITIONS, BUT WAS A GOOD CONTEST ANYWAY. THANKS TO ALL WHO TOOK PART, ESPECIALLY THE STATIONS WHO JUST WORKED A FEW FOR THE FUN OF IT, AND HELPED US ALL TO SCORE.

XE1ZVO: I HOPE TO WIN MY THIRD CONTEST AS XE OPERATOR. I WOULD LIKE TO THANKS TO: XE1TWG DOUGLAS AND HIS WIFE XE1TMD MONICA FOR THEIR SUPORT ON THIS CONTEST.

YBØDPO: First time join WAEDC RTTY, propagation is poor on 20m, not to many QSO I made, used a 75watts XCVR into a logperiodic (7 el) and a dipole on 40m and 80m, and the N1MM Logger contest software is made me easy to sent & rcvd the QTCs, really relax on this contest. And thanks so much to all friends gave me point and multiplier, enjoy and fun hope can join again next year if all the condition is ok. 73.

YB5BO: Thanks for a nice contest! I will be back next year.

YO6BHN: See you next year.

YT6Y: This is my first RTTY contest EVER! Big fun.

YU8/OK1CRM: I enjoyed the contest. It was a good time.

Z37M: No cluster, no multiplaer station, and we did what we did HI. We have a great a fun again, and tnx tu DARC for the nice contest and our congratulations for 50 anyversary. Happy holydays and see you next year, of course !

ZC4LI: Great contest as usual, thanks to all concerned for running it.

ZL2AMI: While everybody sufferd from poor propagation, from New Zealand to Europe via polar paths was an extra disadvantage. However a 10m opening to Europe on the second day was a surprise. I had a noteable 10m contact with Scott

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