Over 2700 logs have been received, topping last year's record number of 2374. However, there are another 2800 calls in the aggregate QSOs from the received logs, so potentially there are twice as man
With the log deadline just 24 hours away, a number of significant logs are missing: QSOs Missing Logs Logs are accepted after the deadline, of course, because they improve the log checking up to the
This Saturday is the semi-annual NA RTTY Sprint sponsored by the NCJ. It is a 4-hour slice out of your weekend running from 00-04Z, Sunday, 11 March (Saturday evening, NA time). The Sprint format is
Both WriteLog and N1MM Logger support the Kam TNC. Ed - W0YK _______________________________________________ RTTY mailing list RTTY@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/rtty
Results for last week's NA RTTY Sprint are posted on ncjweb.com at http://www.ncjweb.com/sprintrttyprelim.php Let me know any questions. The final results article will be in the May/June issue of the
The financial aspect of some DXpeditions is often the critical factor determining if the trip even occurs. There will soon be an announcement about a major expedition to a highly needed country that
Log checking and the results article for CQ magazine are complete as the May issue goes to press. Results will be on the website in June. There were 3373 submitted logs, up from 2681 in 2010. 12 worl
Online access to contest logs hasn't been set up yet for CQ WW RTTY, but it is "on the list". 73, Ed - W0YK CQ RTTY Contest Director -- Ed Muns w0yk@cqwwrtty.com www.cqwwrtty.com www.cqwpxrtty.com ww
As with many things, "it depends". FSK requires a homebrew or commercial interface and AFSK (with respects to Uncle Bill's history lesson!) requires proper adjustments of drive level, compression off
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Apparently the RS unit comes with 3.5mm stereo adapter: What's in the box: Ground loop isolator 1/8 inch-jack adapter Ed W0YK Don AA5AU wrote: _______________________________________________ RTTY mai
As I recall, the original transformer was $6, so two would be $12 (stereo) and the additional $8 for this product is well worth the already-cabled and packaged configuration. If it really is a 1:1 ra
Great advice and well-summarized. Isolation transformers are a work-around for system grounding problems. However, isolation transformers are useful when it is not easy or quick to do these two thing
The discontinued Radio Shack transformer (p/n 273-1374) cost $6.95. The much superior Bourns LM-NP-1001-B1L is only $1.85 from Mouser. Three of them are used in the K3 for stereo LINE OUT and mono LI
Many RTTY demodulators such as MMTTY can be configured to change the audio pitch, or tones, to zero-beat a signal within the IF passband of the radio. In MMTTY the function is called AFC (Automatic F
In most contests, the running station K6LL would not give up the frequency and would continue working stations there. However, the Sprint rules are unique in that only one station may be worked as a
7. Exchange: To have a valid exchange, you must send all of the following information: the other station's call, your call, your serial number, your name and your location (state, province or countr
The NS rules (RTTY and CW) are slightly modified from the NA Sprint rules. Here are the differences below. There are NS contest modules for N1MM and WriteLog. For more info on NS, please see www.nccc
When I worked Bouvet several decades ago on CW, the operator never called CQ but roamed around the band answering stations who were calling him blind. He didn't have any jammers or policing but I'm n