[KCDXC] Contest weekend

[Tom Baugh]

I got in 2 contests this weekend
the NAQP RTTY and a much smaller effort on the 160M SSB mess.
Made 201 QSO's on SSB in a very casual effort of 4 hours (including 90 Q's
for one full run hour)
I think Alan is going for the worked all Lone Jack 160M every month of the
year (Nice to see you on)

In a more serious effort for our Nitty Gritty Rtty Team.
I may have broken a Missouri and ZERO Record with th results below.

North American QSO Party, RTTY

Call: AE9B
Operator(s): AE9B
Station: AE9B

Class: Single Op LP
QTH: MO
Operating Time (hrs): 10

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
  160:    0     0
   80:   86    33
   40:  128    43
   20:  172    46
   15:  103    35
   10:   22    12
-------------------
Total:  511   169  Total Score = 86,359

Club:

Team: Nitty Gritty Rtty

Great contest.  10M was not very good was awful but 15,20,40,80 provided
plenty
of action for this 10 hour contest. Despite the noise on 40 and 80 my BIG
verticals seemed to do the trick. Sorry if I did hear your call.

Not sure of an updated record as the NCJ Web site shows the lates records
from
1999. Perhaps someone can direct me to an updated site? If these numbers
hold
true, this would be a new Missouri record (by a bunch). Nice to print some
quality DX in HR, I, YU, ZF, EA, JA, PJ7, UA9, VR. Thanks to Bruce (ZF) and
Mike
(KH) for moving bands.

Should have taken dinner a little sooner (there was a real dead period here
late
afternoon) when I got back thing were hopping again.

My first real effort runnig SO2R. What an incredible difference. In this
mode,
it allows you to keep the ball rolling when the bands change, always able to
"sense" what's going on on the other bands.
Thanks to the NCJ for putting on this event. I'm looking forward to many
more
to
come.  Thanks for the QSO's.

Station "A"
Yaesu 1000MP
Writelog V10.10.39C with MMTTY
Gateway PII-450
Win98SE

Station "B"Antennas:

Yaesu 1000MP
Writelog V10.10.39C with MMTTY
Generic PII-350?
Win98SE

Antennas:
Force 12 C4SXL
Wilson trapped tribander
40M 4 Square
80M dipole
80M 1/2Wave vertical