I was only able to spend a total of 5.5 hours on the radio this weekend of which the first hour was very late on Saturday evening making local (US) contacts. The 5.5 hours this year was much less then the 28-30 hours I was able to put into the 2008 WAE RTTY contest last year.That’s about 1/5th the amount of time on the radio.

This year I was much more comfortable with QTCs and N1MM makes QTCs simple as pie, so I was more then happy to receive or send QTCs to any European stations. Last year in 2008 I made 420 contacts and this year 158 contacts.  Last year I had 188 QTCs and this year 190 in a fraction of the time.

I didn’t make any contact with any new DXCCs and didn’t make any exotic contacts but it’s fun none the less and I still enjoy RTTY contesting the most of all. I only had a little over a dozen paper QSL cards to write out and they are already done. eQSL and LoTW have been uploaded and confirmations have already been made.

Here’s my score summary.

Band   Q/QTC  QSOs    Pts  Cty
 3.5    QSO    20      20   56
 7      QSO     9       9   15
 14     QSO   123     123   80
 14    RQTC   110     110    0
 14    SQTC    70      70    0
 21     QSO     6       6   12
 21    RQTC    10      10    0
 Total  All   348     348  163

 Score : 56,724

Hopefully next time I’ll be able to spend more time in the chair and on the air.

73,
K2DSL