WAE RTTY Scores - Post Your Results And Stories Here!

[N1API]

Here are my results for the WAE Contest this weekend, stories after the results.

START-OF-LOG: 2.0
ARRL-SECTION: CT
CALLSIGN: N1API
CLUB: Meriden ARC
CONTEST: DARC-WAEDC-RTTY
CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP-ASSISTED ALL LOW
CLAIMED-SCORE: 351216
OPERATORS: N1API
NAME: Al
ADDRESS:
ADDRESS: CT
ADDRESS: United States
CREATED-BY: N1MM Logger V14.9.0

Band ------ Q/QTC ------ QSOs ------ Multi
14 -------- QSO -------- 185 -------- 126
14 -------- ROTC -------- 90 ---------- 0
14 -------- SQTC ------- 187 ---------- 0
21 -------- QSO -------- 151 -------- 114
21 -------- RQTC ------- 100 ---------- 0
21 -------- SQTC ------- 140 ---------- 0
28 -------- QSO -------- 101 --------- 84
28 -------- RQTC -------- 20 ---------- 0
28 -------- SQTC ------- 110 ---------- 0
Total ----- All ------- 1084 -------- 324
Score: 351,216

Well, this was an interesting and different weekend. The bands did not seem to be in as good a condition as other contest weekends. In fact I would say they were down because of the decline in solar activity and the events of some flares this weekend.

A "surprise" was pulled on me without warning, and that was when I was starting to exchange QTC with a European Station and all of a sudden he started sending HIS QTC to ME! I had to do some quick thinking, fortunately I had just gone over the N1MM section on QTC. I usually do a quick review before a WAE contest to refresh my memory on how to do it, so I was able to get the QTC received. Over the weekend I took a number of other QTCs so added more than double to my score. I did manage to "give away" all of my contact about 5 minutes before the contest ended and and said that's all I'm DONE! I hope I got the R QTC correct. When you send QTC the lot number goes into the "QTC?" field automatically. When receiving you have to type the stations call in the QTC Field so I was not sure if the format is "CALL" or "CALL N/N" I guess I will finding out when the scores come out. If I get banged for my R QTC I'll know I did it wrong.

I had a few nice runs on 10, 15 and 20 but spent a lot of time searching and pouncing. Nothing spectacular. I ended the contest with about a 3 1/2 hour run on 20 meters about 14.0935. There seemed to be little close QRM and I did about 80 contacts just sitting and calling CQ.

A fun and relaxing weekend in front of the radio and I ran into a couple of club members working the contest and caught a a couple of other members calls in the QTCs.