WAE DX Contest, RTTY 2011 Call: DL1IAO Operator(s): DL1IAO Station: DL0WW Class: Single Op HP QTH: JN49FO Operating Time (hrs): 36 Radios: SO2R Summary: Band QSOs Pts QTCs Mults ------------------------------- 80: 209 219 10 48 40: 286 496 210 79 20: 366 1003 637 98 15: 381 1291 910 99 10: 325 1014 689 100 ------------------------------- Total: 1567 4023 2456 1023 Total Score = 4,115,529 Club: Bavarian Contest Club Comments: Radio A: IC756Pro3(INRAD) + Alpha87A Radio B: IC756Pro3(INRAD) + IC4KL TopTen decoders, WX0B bandpass filters & homebrew 2R-switching WT v3.27.1 / MMTTY on 2x HP Omnibook XE3 another 2 Omnibooks running HAL DXP38's in receive only (80) Bobtail (NW/SE), Delta Loop, DP @10m (40) 3el M2 Yagi @20m (linear-loaded), DP @10m (20) 5el M2 Yagi @27m (15) 5el Yagi @25m (10) 6el Yagi @24m (sharing tower with 40m) Off-Times: Sat 00:00-04:50 -> 04:50 Sat 23:28-06:10 -> 06:42 Sun 11:32-12:01 -> 00:29 Thanks to DARC, the propagation gods and the RTTY community for making my first ever WAEDC RTTY such a fun weekend! Every time I enter a RTTY contest I'm delighted by the friendship and excellent operating style of most operators. I wish WinTest had more keys left to program some "73" and "TNX" messages! 4 computers? That's right, darling. One for each eye of the DL1IAO mutant ;-) I expected less QTCs in RTTY but most people seemed to handle them and they were almost as much fun as on CW. Being able to send them was a nice option when the other station was too weak for a reliable copy. The high bands were the place to be for QTCs and at the beginning I almost skipped 40/80 except for some multipliers. WinTest was stable and easy to use as usual, even though I used a really outdated version. Time to upgrade the old contesting notebooks. Being called by AH2J (40m), AH0BW (10m), FO5QB (20m), KH6 (15-40m), KL7 (15-40m) and several VK/ZLs was a real treat. However, it was not less thrilling to work some weak EU multipliers on scatter, and I want to thank MW0CRI, GU0SUP, EI3GC and LX1TI (to name just a few) for their patience to complete the QSO. DL3TD was missed in the QTCs. 73, Stefan DL1IAO@contesting.com http://www.dl1iao.com