The Andaman and Nicobar islands (VU4) were activated by a team put togerher by the ARSI. This was a good chance to work this entity on all bands and modes. The operation was good, as expected, as we had some pretty good ops out there.  I managed to work them on 13 band/mode slots.
Back after a break
It’s been a while since I dropped out of sight from my blog. It’s a been a busy few months.
However, here are the final scores for India in the 2010 CQ WW RTTY contest:
| Â |
Band |
Final |
QSOs |
Countries |
Zones |
US/VE |
| VU2LBW |
A |
798,342 |
1,010 |
186 |
72 |
24 |
| VU2RMS |
A |
87,084 |
250 |
92 |
31 |
0 |
| *VU2PTT |
A |
223,275 |
351 |
146 |
65 |
18 |
| *VU2ABS |
A |
41,261 |
124 |
77 |
40 |
4 |
| *VU3DJQ |
14 |
15,759 |
120 |
33 |
15 |
3 |
| VU2NKS |
A |
508,295 |
632 |
201 |
70 |
6 |
Will keep posting more stuff as I get back to speed.
CQ WW RTTY 2010
Went into this contest without the time to sling up and test a 40M dipole. When the contest started, 80M was teeming with stations, but I could not work them as I did not have an antenna.
15M turned out to be the best band. It was open through the day here in India. I had long runs most of the day before I moved to 20M later in the evening. 20M was chaos – I could hear RTTY stations from 14.050 to 14.145!
It was nice to work Phil/GU0SUP for the first time. Most runs on 20M slowed down with unruly pile-ups with stations calling on top of each other and continuing to call when I was answering someone. I am certain I would have had many more of the calling stations in the log if they had a little more patience.
It was good to hear a few VU’s on the contest. We had Ram/VU3DJQ from Delhi, Nand/VU2NKS from Thane, Prasad/VU2PTT and Ramesh/VU2RMS from Bangalore, and Aravind/VU2ABS from Chennai. Aravind deserves special mention as this was his first RTTY contest and he got organized in a couple of days to get going. Working without an interface, he used a speaker-mic combination to work AFSK. Pretty good effort!
Here are some claimed scores from VU:
| Callsign | Category | Claimed Score |
| VU3DJQ |
SOSB/20 LP |
Unknown |
| VU2NKS |
SOAB LP |
488,542 |
| VU2PTT |
SOAB LP |
233,466 |
| VU2RMS |
SOAB HP |
97,857 |
| VU2ABS |
SOAB LP |
47,616 |
| VU2LBW |
SOAB HP |
818,818 |