BARTG contest 2010.
The annual BARTG RTTY contest took place this weekend just passed. Plenty of RTTY activity on the bands and conditions were pretty good.
Highlights of the weekend for me were working AL9A in Alaska for a new one on RTTY and WX7P for a new WAS state (Washington), both on 20m.
Other DX contacts of note were YB4IR, HZ1PS and CO8LY all on 15m and P40YL on 20m. I also heard 6W2SC on 10m but he was fading in and out quite badly. I called him a few times (more in hope than expectation) but no QSO resulted.
Less impressive was my 40m effort which amounted to a meagre 3 contacts. The band was surprisingly devoid of RTTY activity (at least during the times I was able to listen in). A shame really as I’d hoped there might be some rich pickings late into Sunday evening but it just wasn’t to be.
Looking forward now to the CQ World-Wide WPX SSB contest next weekend.