North American QSO Party, RTTY
Call: W0ETC
Operator(s): W0ETC
Station: W0ETC
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: IA
Operating Time (hrs): 10:00
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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80: 27 20
40: 94 38
20: 79 38
15: 53 23
10: 13 9
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Total: 266 128 Total Score = 34,048
Club: Tennessee Contest Group
Team: TCG ALLEY CATS
Comments:
A week before the contest the main frequency turning on my IC775 frooze stiff
and my IC756 developed less than 1 watt power output. My choices were to join
the multi op effort at N0NI (N0AC in the test) or to fire up a 22 year old
TS930S that had been on the shelf for 5 years.
Being a masocist I hooked up the old 930. As I didn't have an FSK interface for
it I would have to run AFSK mode during the test. That meant wide filters and
no rig/computer interface. I had doubts about the 930 holding up for 10 hours at
100 watts output, so I placed a large RS muffin fan on top of the case sucking
out air. Surprisingly the power supply and finals survived the contest.
Before the contest I decide even 20,00 points with this set up would be a
decent score. The solar flae made me think I had beeen too optomiistic. But I
kept plugging along. At times with the wide filters the QRM was so bad I felt
like pulling the plug, but I kept diddling away. In the end all things
considered I was happy with the score.
To all who joined with me and participated on a TCG team, my thanks. If you
want to do it again next time you are more than welcome to join us. If you
didn't play on a team please conside it for the next time around. And, you are
among those like me who are really insane, I will make an effort to organize a
TCG RTTY sprint team or two, or three.
73 W0ETC Lar IA
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