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Cq ww rtty full#
You can see a full log analysis by clicking here. Finally this happened and I was able to make a nice few contacts before it slowed right down at around tea time and I stopped operating at just after 18:30z.Įxcluding the 20m and 40m contacts, my final tally was 326 QSOs including 7 duplicates. However I persevered and waited for the band to open to the west again as it did yesterday. When I finally did get on the air at around 08:00z, the bands were in even worse condition than yesterday and it was just slow that I nearly gave up and started learning to knit instead. This morning I didn’t start as early and it’s just as well. I even popped back on a bit later in the evening and worked another twenty or so on 40m. My day ended on 15m with a total of 250 QSOs in the log. I was even called by Mike, VP8NO in the Falkland Islands who readers may remember from my sked with him back in 2012. I worked Chile, Cuba, Bolivia, Uruguay, Canada, Colombia, Martinique, Sardinia, Argentina, Peru, Lebanon, Brazil and many others. I switched back to 15m and after a while, I turned the beam west and started working a lot of stations in North and South America. At least I knew that if 15m carried on as badly, I would be able to run on 20m and get a half decent score. In order to alleviate the boredom, I switched to 20m and worked 65 stations in about 75 minutes. I had a goal to make 300 QSOs on 15m and was beginning to think that this would be totally impossible.
The whole morning was painfully slow, to the extent that by lunchtime, I’d only worked 25 stations or so.
Strangely enough, out of my first twenty or so Qs, half of them were with stations in Finland. I started operating shortly after sunrise yesterday morning and it took well over an hour of calling before I even made my first contact. I’ve won the Single Operator, High Power 15m section four times in the past for stations in England and always been reasonably well placed throughout European and World entries.ġ5m is still my favourite band and I decided to make a proper entry this year into CQ WW RTTY despite the fact that conditions on HF have been steadily going downhill over the last few years as the solar cycle declines and have been pretty dreadful on the higher bands over the course of the summer with major solar flares and storms. Looking back at my old contest entries, I noticed that I’d never made a serious entry into CQ WW RTTY on 15m in the past and have always concentrated my efforts on CQ WPX RTTY instead.