WAE DX Contest, RTTY
Call: VE3IAY
Operator(s): VE3IAY
Station: VE3IAY
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: ON
Operating Time (hrs):
Summary:
Band QSOs Pts QTCs Mults
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80: 20 0 32
40: 71 20 96
20: 135 10 102
15: 121 100 106
10: 121 140 94
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Total: 468 0 270 430 Total Score = 317,340
Club: Contest Club Ontario
Comments:
Unassisted.
TS-850S: 100W AFSK, except when a flaky audio cable adapter led to sudden drops
or rises in my audio signal. That started on Sunday morning, but I only tracked
it down an hour or so before the end. I hope I didn't QRM anyone while juggling
audio levels.
Ground-mounted trap vertical antenna. I was going to try a wire antenna that had
worked well in SS CW, but RFI crashed the computer so I went back to the
vertical.
Software: MixW 2.06M, QTCs done by hand (cut & paste from text files). Next time
I hope to be doing QTCs automatically like everyone else. By hand was slow and
clumsy, and I lost time fussing with text files every time I sent or received
QTCs. Even so, I enjoyed the QTCs, and being able to send them in either
direction gives the RTTY version of this contest a character all its own.
High point was working 8N1OGA during the last hour for a new one. Also worked
3XY7C on 4 bands.
Thanks to all for the QSOs and QTCs, and my apologies for bad signal quality
while I was wrestling with audio problems.
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