G3TXF : CQWW RTTY Contest : Sep 2017 : 40m SOSB
G3TXF used a rotary 40m dipole (Opti-Beam) at 25m for a Single Band entry in the 2017 CQWW RTTY Contest.
The top-20 QSO countries are shown in this table with the non-EU totals in bold.

Other non-EU stations worked : RA9=11, PY=7, VU=7, JA=5, EA8=4, UN=4, CO=3, VK=3, YB=3, 4X=2, A6=2, CT3=2, HS=2, JT=2, V3=2, YV=2 and ZL=2.

And one each of non-EU mults: 5B4, A4, A9, BY, CE, DU, EA9, EK, FM, HP, KH2, LU, OA, OX, PJ4, TG and ZF.
W
229
 OH
27
DL
171
 S5
26
I
115
 G
25
UR
77
 F
21
SP
58
 YO
19
RA
56
 SM
18
PA
51
 EU
17
OK
43
 HA
15
EA
31
 HB
14
VE
29
 LZ
14
Zones missed (11) : 01, 02, 19, 29, 31, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38 and 39.

Nothing from Africa apart from CR3A / CR3W, four EA8s and one EA9 all in z33. I missed the V5 who was active - I saw his call garbled on my screen once, but didn't realise who it was until too late!
Many usually quite easy W/VE mults were missed including : VT, AR, MS, NM etc etc. No VE4, VE5, VE6 or VO1 either!
G3TXF : CQWW RTTY :

Single Operator Single Band (SOSB) 40m.

Operated in the non-Assisted category.

Operating required regular CQ-ing (often involving lengthy CQs with no replies - especially in the last hours on the contest!) interspersed with sweeps across the band looking for those elusive multipliers.

Most activity was between 7040 and 7065kHz, with just the occasional station between 7030 and 7040kHz. Contesters appeared to be keeping well clear of the FT8 (7074kHz ) channel.
The excellent graphs produced by Win-Test show the QSO distribution for the two days. Overall operating time in the 2017 CQWW RTTY Contest was about 36 hours, with six short snooze/meal breaks.
Installing a rotary 40m dipole (Opti-Beam) on a Versatower prior to the 2017 CQWW RTTY Contest. Take-off to the South-West (towards Hartland Point) from 225m asl.
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