OK DX RTTY Contest, Croatian CW Contest, and RAC Winter Contest

The Czech RTTY Contest was one of the first RTTY contests I worked back in 2000. For the first time in 11 years, I was back at it this past Saturday. Conditions were not great. I got started just after 1330Z and easily made a few EU contacts on 15m in the first half hour: YL2CI in Latvia, DL0TTY and DK0EE in Germany, and OK1KSL in the Czech Republic. Signals were fading in and out as the solar flux was a bit lower than it had been over the past few months and I only made two more European contacts in the contest: OK6W in the Czech Republic and M0IKW in England. In between working RTTY, I also made a handful of contacts in two other contests that were going on simultaneously: the Croatian CW Contest and the Radio Amateurs of Canada Winter Contest. I worked three stations in the Croatian contest: 9A5Y and 9A5MT in Croatia and E73W in Bosnia. I also worked one station in the RAC Contest: VE1OP in Nova Scotia. Those 4 QSOs were all made on 15m CW. The rest of the day was spent making mostly domestic contacts on 15m and 20m in the OK RTTY contest. One interesting station worked was P41HQ in Aruba (though they were sending the wrong zone - Aruba is in CQ Zone 9 and they were sending 11 as their exchange). P41HQ is a unique effort from the Aruba Amateur Radio Club to promote Amateur Radio in Aruba and lobby the Aruban Minister of Communication to make changes to the laws governing Amateur Radio in Aruba. The goal is to work as many stations as possible and have those hams send QSL cards directly to the Aruban Minister of Communication as part of the lobbying effort. I will definitely be sending my card.

My score summaries for the three contests, are submitted to 3830, is below:

OK DX RTTY Contest

Call: N8HM
Operator(s): N8HM
Station: N8HM

Class: SOAB LP
QTH: Washington, DC
Operating Time (hrs): 

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Pts  Countries  OK Stns
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   80:                           
   40:                           
   20:   9    11       4         
   15:  23    32       8        2
   10:                           
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Total:  32    43      12        2  Total Score = 602

Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club

Comments:

Rig - Yaesu FT-817ND
Antenna - Alexloop Walkham Portable Magnetic Loop

Croatian CW Contest

Call: N8HM
Operator(s): N8HM
Station: N8HM

Class: SOAB QRP
QTH: Washington, DC
Operating Time (hrs): 

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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  160:          
   80:          
   40:          
   20:          
   15:   3     2
   10:          
-------------------
Total:   3     2  Total Score = 30

Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club

Comments:

Rig - Yaesu FT-817ND
Antenna - Alexloop Walkham Portable Magnetic Loop

RAC Winter Contest

Call: N8HM
Operator(s): N8HM
Station: N8HM

Class: SOSB/15 QRP
QTH: Washington, DC
Operating Time (hrs): 

Summary:
 Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs  CW Mults  Ph Mults
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  160:                              
   80:                              
   40:                              
   20:                              
   15:   1               1          
   10:                              
    6:                              
    2:                              
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Total:   1      0        1         0  Total Score = 10

Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club

Comments:

Rig - Yaesu FT-817ND
Antenna - Alexloop Walkham Portable Magnetic Loop          

And the QSO map (includes QSOs from the OK RTTY Contest only):