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To: 3830@contesting.com, cfmorris@bellsouth.net
Subject: [3830] RTTY WPX KI5XP(@W5WMU) SOAB HP
From: webform@b4h.net
Reply-to: cfmorris@bellsouth.net
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 15:38:18 -0800
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                    CQ WW RTTY WPX Contest

Call: KI5XP
Operator(s): KI5XP
Station: W5WMU

Class: SOAB HP
QTH: Lafayette, La
Operating Time (hrs): 30
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Pts
-----------------
   80:  133   308
   40:  342  1184
   20:  440   613
   15:  529  1053
   10:  103   157
-----------------
Total: 1547  3315  Prefixes = 446  Total Score = 1,478,490

Club: 

Comments:

Overall was a great contest.  Too bad it was Valentine's day weekend.  Because
of important things, I ended up taking my break at the worst possible time, from
8:00pm till about 5:00am Saturday night/Sunday morning.  This no doubt cost me
very valuable Q's on 40 and 80 that night.  Those points are worth their weight
in gold, but its a bit more important to keep the YL happy!  First the Sugar
Bowl intercepts Roundup and then WPX on Valentines day.  Cant wait until next
year, maybe it'll be a bit better.

Plenty of 5 banders, too many to recall.  Good openings on all bands, and as
usual, 15 carried the day.  40 on Friday night was a hoot, and looks as though
having monobanders on 40 in multiple directions is going to be a big advantage
as we slip further down the cycle.  

Once again, I was haunted by a Yaesu FT-990.  For some reason, when Writelog
polls the CAT interface, the RX is completely blanked.  I figured I could still
use it for PTT, but since the Freq. readout didnt work correctly, I'd have to
manually select the band each time I changed the second radio.  Well, changing
that in the Frequency selection box also disables the CAT interface completely. 
So 30 minutes in, I had to emergency wire a PTT off of the same comport as the
FSK feed.  Thank goodness for the great idea from the picture on Don's site. 
That 3 way box with FSK, PTT and CW on one port works great.

Hopefully next year, there wont be holidays, I'll have both FT-1000's back, and
I wont have any power failures.

Rigs: FT-990 and FT-1000D
Antennas: Stacked Mono's on 10, 15, 20, NE, NW, and SW.
          3 Ele mono's NW and NE on 40
          3 Element veritcal arrays NE and NW on 80.
Software:  Writelog and MMTTY

Thanks to Pat for the use of "The Camp" again, and for keeping food and drink at
hand.

73
Charlie


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