North American QSO Party, RTTY - February
Call: AA5AU
Operator(s): AA5AU
Station: AA5AU
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: LA
Operating Time (hrs): 10
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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80: 172 44
40: 344 54
20: 349 48
15: 108 25
10: 10 2
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Total: 983 171 Total Score = 170,059
Club: Louisiana Contest Club
Team: LCC #1
Comments:
Best NAQP score ever by me or anyone else. Killed the record but not feeling
good about the west coast having their way on 15 and 10 meters. Unbelievable
activity. My new antennas worked well!
I've been doing NAQP RTTY ever since it started and cannot recall there being
a
better one than this one. I want to thank my wife Sharon for the wonderful
meal she cooked for me when I took a 45 minute break. I was so jacked up I
couldn't stop moving. I ended up washing and drying all the dishes. Forget
the dishwasher. I wanted to take a full hour but just had to get back to the
radio so only took 45 minutes and ended at 0444Z. It was too good.
Thanks to everyone who moved bands for me. Too bad I didn't have the midwest
on 15 meters or anything other than west coast on 10 or the damage could have
been worse. Averaging 98 Q's an hour for the ten hours is amazing even to me.
The only thing I can do now is sit and watch the scores and see how badly W0YK
beats me. hi Hopefully not because I put everything I had into this one. I
have dreamed of this for a long time. Nonetheless, it was the best NAQP RTTY
contest I've ever operated. I won't remember it tomorrow but I remember it
now!
Long live RTTY contesting.
Station A:
Icom IC-756 PRO III 100 watts output
Dell Dimention 4600 XP Pro running WriteLog 10.83C
Internal Creative SB Live! Soundcard
MMTTY plug-in for WriteLog
HAL DXP-38 in a cloned Rttyrite window
JPS NIR-12 Dual DSP Audio Filter
Homebrew FSK interface
Dunestar 600 band filter w/800-BPF switch
Icom PS-60 power supply
Station B:
Kenwood TS-870 100 watts output
Dell Inspiron E1505 XP Media Edition running WriteLog 10.83C
Outboard Encore ENMAB-8CM USB soundcard
Siig JU-HS4011-S2 4-port USB-to-serial adapater
Homebrew FSK interface
JPS NIR-12 Dual DSP Audio Filter
Dunestar 600 band filter w/800-BPF switch
Astron RS-35A power supply
Antennas/Rotors:
3 element SteppIR with 30/40 loop dipole @ 58' / Ham IV rotor
4 element KT34M2 @ 40' / M2 RC2800PX rotor/controller
80 meter inverted vee apex @ 55'
Thanks to everyone for all the QSOs.
73, Don AA5AU
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