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CQ/RJ Worldwide DX Contest, RTTY
Call: P40MM
Operator(s): K3MM
Station: P40V
Class: SOAB LP
QTH: P4
Operating Time (hrs): 46
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Pts States DX Zones
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80: 90 267 34 20 10
40: 305 889 46 55 18
20: 794 2333 52 74 26
15: 875 2575 54 85 31
10: 908 2684 54 78 24
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Total: 2972 8748 240 312 109 = 5,782,428
Club/Team: Potomac Valley Radio Club
Comments:
I set out to break the World SOLP record that WF1B set back in 97 from the
same
QTH using P40TT. As it turns out, I set my sights a little too low! After
about 24 hours, the LP record was history. What was left to do? Break
the HP
record running LP, of course! Tim, N4GN, set the World SOHP record from
EA8BH
last year. I knew it was 5 million plus but couldnt remember the actual
score
I was shooting for. I found at after I got back it was just over 5
million
points. When Tim called me on Sunday for a QSO, he started asking score
questions. When I told him I was at 4.73? mil, he said "Uh oh"! Heh
heh...
I have to give a big "thank you" to Carl, AI6V, for providing a really
fine ham
rental QTH. It was my first time to Aruba and it's by far the most
"civilized"
ham accomodations I've yet encountered in the "islands" at a very
reasonable
rate. His place was impeccably clean and organized as well as being a
first
rate ham station. It made my job of installing the additional gear for
the
RTTY contest very easy. Although I had to rebuild the 80 meter dipole,
there
was plenty of spare material there as well as a climbing belt, so it was a
fairly easy and safe job.
I'd also like to thank N3OC, Brian, the current PVRC president, who went
to a
lot of effort to provide me with 2 notebook computers that would run RITTY
software. I spent a lot of time playing around with Writelog and MMTTY,
etc.,
but in the end came back to the old trusted WF1B/RITTY combo that works so
well
if you can get it to work! The problem with the Windows alternatives are
their
reliance on pointing devices to get a lot of tasks done. My notebooks had
touchpads (nasty ones at that) and no spare ports for a mouse interface. I
would have committed suicide well be for the contest was over had I been
forced
to go that route. Once tweaked, I found the MMTTY to be a very good
alternative to RITTY performance-wise. I wish I had set it up in parallel
to
RITTY to compare them in real time, but never got around to it.
Anyway, I ran good old WF1B's RTTY v 5.01 along with RITTY 4.53 and except
for
a couple of crashes from one of the notebooks, it worked great.
The station was an existing FT1000D along with one of my FT1000MP's, some
added
BPF's, etc., and the usual antenna farm at P40V: a 10/15 "monobander",
and
20/40 "monobander, a C31XR, and dipoles for 80/160. The 3 towers are
about 35
to 50 feet high I think, two of which are amazingly close together. In
fact, I
had to be careful not to point the C31 thru the 10/15 and vice versa as
they
severely degraded each other when they were lined up.
73, Ty K3MM/P40MM/KF3P...
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CQ/RJ Worldwide DX Contest, RTTY<br>
<br>
Call: P40MM<br>
Operator(s): K3MM<br>
Station: P40V<br>
<br>
Class: SOAB LP<br>
QTH: P4<br>
Operating Time (hrs): 46<br>
Radios: SO2R<br>
<br>
Summary:<br>
Band QSOs Pts States DX Zones<br>
------------------------------------------<br>
80: 90 267 34 20
10<br>
40: 305 889 46 55
18<br>
20: 794 2333 52 74
26<br>
15: 875 2575 54 85
31<br>
10: 908 2684 54 78
24<br>
------------------------------------------<br>
Total: 2972 8748 240 312
109 = 5,782,428<br>
<br>
Club/Team: Potomac Valley Radio Club<br>
<br>
Comments:<br>
<br>
I set out to break the World SOLP record that WF1B set back in 97 from the same
<br>
QTH using P40TT. As it turns out, I set my sights a little too low!
After <br>
about 24 hours, the LP record was history. What was left to do?
Break the HP <br>
record running LP, of course! Tim, N4GN, set the World SOHP record from
EA8BH <br>
last year. I knew it was 5 million plus but couldnt remember the actual
score <br>
I was shooting for. I found at after I got back it was just over 5
million <br>
points. When Tim called me on Sunday for a QSO, he started asking score
<br>
questions. When I told him I was at 4.73? mil, he said "Uh oh"!
Heh heh...<br>
<br>
I have to give a big "thank you" to Carl, AI6V, for providing a
really fine ham <br>
rental QTH. It was my first time to Aruba and it's by far the most
"civilized" <br>
ham accomodations I've yet encountered in the "islands" at a very
reasonable <br>
rate. His place was impeccably clean and organized as well as being a
first <br>
rate ham station. It made my job of installing the additional gear for
the <br>
RTTY contest very easy. Although I had to rebuild the 80 meter dipole,
there <br>
was plenty of spare material there as well as a climbing belt, so it was a <br>
fairly easy and safe job.<br>
<br>
I'd also like to thank N3OC, Brian, the current PVRC president, who went to a
<br>
lot of effort to provide me with 2 notebook computers that would run RITTY <br>
software. I spent a lot of time playing around with Writelog and MMTTY,
etc., <br>
but in the end came back to the old trusted WF1B/RITTY combo that works so well
<br>
if you can get it to work! The problem with the Windows alternatives are
their <br>
reliance on pointing devices to get a lot of tasks done. My notebooks had
<br>
touchpads (nasty ones at that) and no spare ports for a mouse interface.
I <br>
would have committed suicide well be for the contest was over had I been forced
<br>
to go that route. Once tweaked, I found the MMTTY to be a very good <br>
alternative to RITTY performance-wise. I wish I had set it up in parallel
to <br>
RITTY to compare them in real time, but never got around to it.<br>
<br>
Anyway, I ran good old WF1B's RTTY v 5.01 along with RITTY 4.53 and except for
<br>
a couple of crashes from one of the notebooks, it worked great.<br>
<br>
The station was an existing FT1000D along with one of my FT1000MP's, some added
<br>
BPF's, etc., and the usual antenna farm at P40V: a 10/15
"monobander", and <br>
20/40 "monobander, a C31XR, and dipoles for 80/160. The 3 towers are
about 35 <br>
to 50 feet high I think, two of which are amazingly close together. In
fact, I <br>
had to be careful not to point the C31 thru the 10/15 and vice versa as they
<br>
severely degraded each other when they were lined up.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">73, Ty K3MM/P40MM/KF3P...<br>
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Posted using 3830 Score Submittal Forms at:
http://www.hornucopia.com/3830score/<br>
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