WAE RTTY

The past weekend was again the WAE (Work All Europe) in RTTY.

In RTTY are different rules......all can work all....so not only EU with DX.....and DX with EU.

It's a 48 hours contest.

I started at 1.20 UTC.Was looking on 40M,but the band wasn't really open.

Worked in 1 hour 21 stations and didn't find any new ones.So i went to sleep a little.

At 5.41 UTC i logged again the first one on 40M.Worked so 5 stations and had a look if the 20M was already open.That was already open and stayed there a bit.Propagation was mostly Europe that time....also on 20M.

I always look on the other bands as well,to see if they are open for multies.

We where lucky that also the 10M was a little open on both days.

For me as a Novice,i have only the 10 , 20 and 40M to use.

So if the 10M is open,this means always new multies.

Nicest DX where:

10M EA8,UN8,RG9

20M OD5,7Z1,KP4,E21,5C,J39,HP3,YW5,VK3

40M FY1,5C,VK3

If you want to see more info from my WAE Contest,just have a look here:

http://www.pd7bz.nl/WAE

There i have used SH5..a very nice programm to get the information out of your contests.

It has many nice things you can see.I saw the programm first at the blog of my friend Bas,PE4BAS.Talked with him about it and also got it registrated now.

The free programm only goes till 200 QSO's.

My WAE was better again then in 2009.

Got 403 QSO's and over 100.000 points this year.

Shame that the propagation wasn't very well...maybe next contest better....

WAE RTTY

The weekend of 14/15 of November was the WAE RTTY Contest.WAE means Work All Europe.

In the RTTY contest the rules are different then in the SSB and CW.In the RTTY contest,everybody is allowed to work everyone...not only EU to outside EU.

The propagation wasn't very good the days before.Also the 20m band is closing early in the evening.For me this is a bad thing,because as a Novice HAM,i have only the 10 , 20 and 40m band.

I started at 6:00 UTC on the 40m band.In the first 40 minutes i got 25 QSO's and also 3 stations from NA logged.Propagation seemed to be ok...but not very good on 40M.

After that i went to the 20m band that opened just before.Worked on 20m till 11:40 UTC.We had to go away for some hours.In this periode on 20m,i got 2 Japanese stations.I could work them,but it went very difficult.Also i worked a Brasilian station via long path.

At 16:00 i did continue with the contest again,but the 20m seemed to get closing already.Staions from NA where not as strong as they where normal.Stopped the first day at 23:30,as there where no new stations for me to work on 40M.Also,propagation wasn't very well.Stations from outside EU where weak or not even readeble.I also had a 1 1/2 hour break....not much on 40M that time,so i could watch the soccer match from Italia against Netherlands.Last station worked was a nice one,that was Ted TI3TEJ.

Sunday i did start again around 9:00 UTC.The 20m was wide open into EU.Worked on 20m till 17:00 UTC.Then the 20m was most closed at my side.On 40m it was mostly EU that time.Worked till 19:00 UTC on 40m,then i had a break again,because no new stations for me to work.I did continue later at 22:30 UTC.I worked 2 stations from NA after that,mostly EU stations.I did stop at 0:40 UTC...with 351 QSO's logged.

Nice stations worked:

JA6ZPR,4Z5CP,ZX2B,JM1XCW,TK5EP,JA1OVD,VP2MNK,A45WG,VK3TDX,E21YDP,XE1GRR,

7Z1SJ,HI3TEJ,OY3JE.

I work in all contest also alot of stations from NA.But still i need one state,the state of Nevada.

If i get that confirmed at LoTW,i will have all 50 states in mixed mode.But it seems that they aren't much on the radio,or that i just don't seem to have propagation to them.

The last weeks i see and hear more and more stations from the West part of the US,but still no luck.On 40m the propagation to NA wasn't very good this weekend.I only got a few stations logged from NA.