BARTG Contests counts to my favorite RTTY contests (see also BARTG 2009 / 2008 participation) and this year I gave me clear target to beat all previous personal records. First day on Saturday 20th March 2010 starting very early in the morning I had some contact with US stations mostly on 7 MHz band.

With morning opening of 14 MHz band JA stations were comming. On afternoon I was working P40YL (Aruba) (14, 21 MHz) - contest style of this lady was very impressive and cheerish as well as VK3TDX (Australia)(14 MHz) bringing me 4th and 5th continent (South America, Oceania) to the contest log. On the evening finish of first contest day I was slightly better with contest results comparing to 2009 year, but nothing special. My main concern was how to get the 6th missing continent Africa to the log because in this contest the number of worked continents is the super-multiplier (without Africa I could loose quite 20% of total points). During entire Saturday day I did not hear any station from Africa teritorry.
Where to find this multiplier was my thought on Sunday morning.

But Sunday was very pleasant day. Already on the morning I worked TR8CA (Gabon) 6:41 UTC on 14 MHz band, later EA8OM (Canary Islands) and CN8LI (Morocco), , ZS10WCS (South Africa, World Cup soccer commemorating station) , 6W2SC (Senegal) all on 21 MHz band. This higher band was opened during the day bringing on afternoon some rare carribean stations FM1FV (Martinique - look on interesting pictures which Manuel sent me after the contest) and CO8LY (Cuba). 

In the evening the total result was best later years achieved :

Points and Multipliers breakdown

Total score :  points : 358  *  continents : 6 = 302,868