BARTG RTTY Contest 2009

Monday, 23 March 2009 19:53

Last weekend I took part on BARTG (British Amateur Radio Teledata Group) RTTY contest. This year very poor propagation conditions were on the band and I left behind 2008 result quite 100 thousand points.

Small satisfaction were saturday half-hour run on 80m with plenty of europian stations, contacts with Peter (HA3AUI) working as J5UAP from Guinea-Bissau, YB0 (Indonesia, bringing Oceania continent), YV5 (Venezuela), LT0H (Argentina), TR8CA (GABON) as well as WA5ZUP (USA, New Mexico - my #40 US state for WAS award).

eQSL card from Indonesia

eQSL card from New Mexico

Searching in internet for J5UAP working condition I found that HA3AUI is nowadays staying in Senegal (as 6W2SC), near the border of J5 land and often drives over to Cabroxo in J5 to make QSO contacts as J5UAP.

Comparing to BARTG RTTY Contest 2008 I was working with new station setup based on Writelog logging software which is well suitable for this contest, but I had some crashes with MMTTY running in this environment. I went later back to internal RITTY processing with no remarkable problems.

Final results

Continents:        6
Total multipliers:    100
Score:        148800

Points and Multipliers breakdown

Band	QSO	DXCC	Call Areas
80m	78	26	3
40m	36	16	1
20m	134	37	17
15m	0	0	0
10m	0	0	0
Total Points	248	79	21

Last Updated on Friday, 27 March 2009 07:18