Russian RTTY WW Contest
Call: AB1J
Operator(s): AB1J
Station: AB1J
Class: SOAB LP
QTH: Waltham MA
Operating Time (hrs): 7
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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80:
40: 28 9
20: 59 20
15: 3 2
10:
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Total: 90 31 Total Score = 21,350
Club:
Comments:
For me, this is a warm up for the upcoming CQ WW RTTY. It seemed to be a bigger
deal in the past, smaller this year maybe due to poor conditions (SFI=90 A=20
K=3 Saturday morning), less 15m and 10m activity, or maybe folks are boycotting
anything Russian. Who knows?
One thing I've been struggling with is deciding whether to use N1MM+ or N1MM
Classic in the upcoming CQ WW RTTY. N1MM+ has problems, more of a beta-blocker
than a beta release, at least for me in RTTY. I have number of workarounds so
it's like playing video games and knowing the secret trap doors. Getting bugs
fixed is an ordeal in itself. I know N1MM Classic will do the job with no
problems. I would prefer to keep up with the current technology, but for
contest I need reliability.
In this contest, just to warp my mind further, I ran with five decoders.
That's a lot to watch, but if I could hear it I could almost always decode it.
I got mostly majority reports. There wasn't much left on the table, just a few
sigs that were too weak, garbled or QRMed. And I managed to pick most of those
up later under better circumstances. I'm not sure I'll run all these decoders
during the WW-RTTY. I'd need to hire a 2nd op just help watch them, making me
multi-op.
73,
Ken, AB1J
FT-2000
N1MM+ with MMVARI/MMTTY/2Tone/GRITTY TrueTTY WinH8
TS400S RCKskimmer XP
20-10M attic dipoles and outdoor 40m stealth antenna
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