EA RTTY Contest
Call: 4U1ITU
Operator(s): F6IRF
Station: 4U1ITU
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: GENEVA - ITU HQ
Operating Time (hrs): 22
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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80: 108 39
40: 292 79
20: 198 77
15: 52 31
10: 2 2
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Total: 652 228 Total Score = 404,016
Club: INTERNATIONAL AMATEUR RADIO CLUB
Comments:
Antennae: FB53 tribander + 4 el monobanders yagi on 10/15. 2el Cushcraft on 40.
Dipole for NW/SE on 80m (all antennae 6 to 8m above the terrasse of the old 5
storeys ITU building in a urban noisy environment)
Rig: FT1011(JA version of FT990) + FL7000 solid state PA (abt 300W in RTTY)
(1)
Software: Writelog 10.43 with MMTTY plugin (2)
No need to say that the condx have been awful... The only signals heard on 15m
Sunday were from UP, 4X, LU and CX... what you normally expect on 10 at this
point of the solar cycle.
Long low-rate periods... especially on 20, so I went back a few times to 40,
even in the middle of the afternoon , which allowed me to work of few additional
multis and pass the 1000 Q/pts on this band (3). Missed several W-area
multipliers on 80m (collateral effect of the Aurora?), who could not hear me
despite they were printing 100% on my screen... (or maybe they should replace
their PK232 by MMTTY !). In general quite low activity on 80 (i.e. only 4
EA-stns despite the proximity and my attractive call !)
Anyway, it has been another great experience. Even though 4U1ITU is only at
place 222 in Don's "most wanted" TTY list, the call still provides some fun
pile-ups (and I guess quite a lot of "uniques", if I count the number of 001
reports I received !).
Thanks for calling and see you soon again on the bands.
73's Patrick
QSL's: LOTW is highly encouraged - bureau (thanks to USKA) or direct to
INTERNATIONAL AMATEUR RADIO CLUB P.O. BOX 6 CH-1211 GENEVA 20, SWITZERLAND
(please note that 4U1ITU does not have an external QSL manager and that the "I"
station who claims to be THE MANAGER, is just not...)
Infos, photos and more on 4U1ITU website: http://life.itu.int/radioclub/
(1) About the FT990 - Did not like: the VFO (too fast for comfortable
TTY-tuning) - The CAT interface (which I did not manage to get working with
writelog, despite the original Yaesu interface box).
Enjoyed: the 250Hz filter - especially on 40m - and the digital high/pass low
pass.
Really missed the band-map for Search&Pouncing, and forgot several times to
change the band on the log (Apologize if I called you twice - just that I am so
used to the CAT...).
(2) Had a second machine with "MMTY stand-alone" as second decoder - Used
"standard RTTY" MMTTY settings in Writelog, and experimented with other
settings on the second machine. In general The "fluttered-signal profile" has
been very useful as well as the "free shift" and the figure to letters
immediate conversion by "right clicking" in the receive window... (when you
receive a report like 599 PEU PEU PEU; happened quite a few times... ). Really
saved a substantial number of repetition requests having decoding diversity and
MMTTY is really the greatest decoder ever designed ! (sometimes you wonder how
it manages to read something from such an hugly and/or weak signal...)
(3) The rules clearly encourage the 40m, with 6/3 points per QSO... But TTY
contesting on 40 is not easy in Region1 between packet, pactor SSTV and
SSB'ers who keep using 040 LSB (eating half of the R1 exclusive data Narrow Band
portion) . Difficult to avoid conflicts on this band... Even though I remained
most of the time in the 035-040 segment especially during day time, I got a lot
of tunes, and had to support with stoicism quite a few PSK carriers and CW
string of dots right on my "mark freq" (on top of the broadband QRM...).
Everybody in region 1 is looking forward to the extension of the band...
QSOs Points DX: Provinces Call Areas
80m: 108 363 31 4 4
40m: 292 1053 48 18 13
20m: 198 268 46 13 18
15m: 52 86 21 1 9
10m: 2 2 2 0 0
Total: 652 1772 148 36 44
80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total %
EU 95 233 128 18 2 476 73.0
AS 3 12 22 5 0 42 6.4
NA 10 41 39 24 0 114 17.5
SA 0 4 2 3 0 9 1.4
OC 0 1 5 1 0 7 1.1
AF 0 1 2 1 0 4 0.6
QSO/Mul by hour and band
Hour 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm OffTime
D1-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 47/25 --+-- 47/25 47/25
D1-1700Z - - 61/39 - - 61/39 108/64
D1-1800Z - 26/17 18/7 - - 44/24 152/88
D1-1900Z - 57/13 - - - 57/13 209/101
D1-2000Z 29/18 23/5 - - - 52/23 261/124
D1-2100Z 24/6 9/1 4/3 - - 37/10 298/134
D1-2200Z - 32/12 - - - 32/12 330/146
D1-2300Z 27/6 1/0 - - - 28/6 358/152
D2-0000Z 2/1 21/11 --+-- --+-- --+-- 23/12 381/164
D2-0100Z 14/6 12/3 - - - 26/9 407/173
D2-0200Z 7/1 9/0 - - - 16/1 423/174
D2-0300Z 4/0 1/0 - - - 5/0 428/174 32
D2-0400Z - 2/0 - - - 2/0 430/174 55
D2-0500Z 1/1 11/2 1/0 - - 13/3 443/177
D2-0600Z - 10/4 16/1 - - 26/5 469/182
D2-0700Z - 6/0 13/2 - - 19/2 488/184
D2-0800Z --+-- 20/4 10/3 --+-- --+-- 30/7 518/191
D2-0900Z - 27/4 2/0 - - 29/4 547/195
D2-1000Z - - 25/11 - - 25/11 572/206
D2-1100Z - 5/1 8/4 - - 13/5 585/211
D2-1200Z - 13/0 4/3 3/3 - 20/6 605/217
D2-1300Z - - 9/2 - 1/1 10/3 615/220
D2-1400Z - 4/0 9/1 1/1 - 14/2 629/222
D2-1500Z - 3/2 18/1 1/2 1/1 23/6 652/228
Total: 108/39 292/79 198/77 52/31 2/2
80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total
4X 2 1 3
9A 2 7 1 10
9H 1 1
9M2 1 1
CN 1 1
CT 1 3 4 8
CT3 1 1
CX 1 1 2
DL 17 43 2 62
EA 4 23 16 43
EA6 2 2
EA8 1 1 2
EI 1 1
ER 1 1 2
ES 1 1
EU 1 1 2 4
F 1 6 2 1 1 11
G 2 16 18
GM 3 3 3 9
GU 1 1 2
HA 4 4 2 10
HB 2 1 1 3 1 8
HK0/a 1 1
HL 1 1
I 7 18 4 2 31
JA 2 1 3
K 10 37 31 20 98
KP4 1 1
LA 1 1 1 3
LU 1 1
LY 1 3 4
LZ 1 3 2 6
OE 6 1 7
OH 5 5 1 11
OK 8 14 1 1 24
OM 1 1 2 1 5
ON 6 6
OZ 3 2 2 7
PA 1 9 10
PY 2 1 3
S5 3 1 1 5
SM 1 4 6 11
SP 5 10 6 21
SV 1 3 4
SV9 3 3
T9 1 1
TA 1 1
TF 2 2
TI 1 1
UA 8 14 29 7 58
UA2 1 1
UA9 1 8 14 2 25
UN 2 2 3 1 8
UR 9 11 10 1 31
VE 1 8 3 12
VK 1 4 5
VP5 1 1
YB 1 1
YL 4 5 5 1 15
YO 1 2 3 6
YU 2 5 3 10
YV 2 1 3
Z3 1 1 2
ZL 1 1
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