North American QSO Party, RTTY
Call: VA7IRL
Operator(s): VA7IRL
Station: VA7IRL
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: Richmond, BC
Operating Time (hrs): 1.25
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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80: 1 1
40: 11 3
20: 4 3
15: 0 0
10: 0 0
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Total: 16 7 Total Score = 112
Club:
Team:
Comments:
Got on for the last hour or so in a shameless attempt to use the contest to get
my RTTY setup working (I knew there'd be plenty of activity to tune with!).
I hoped just to get the thing printing, but ended up having a ball - worked 5W
on 20 (a first for that country on any band/mode) and made my first ever RTTY
contacts. It's great being new at this game - so many firsts.....
I used W7AY's new cocoaModem RTTY application (http://homepage.mac.com/chen/)
with the microphone and headphone jacks on my iMac and some regular phono leads
to the Patch In and Patch Out on my rig (Kenwood TS-940/SAT). Worked FB - in
spite of a fair amount of QRN and QSB, the thing just kept on printing, even
when the signal faded so much I couldn't hear it over the noise level.
Right now, I stuck using AFSK on LSB, so I can't use my rig's nice, narrow
filter for FSK - next step is to make a keyer for the FSK jack on the rig so I
can do just that. Any ideas, anyone?
So, I can now add another mode to my hopeless addiction, and another slew of
contests to my calendar..... is there any end to it? :-D
73 de VA7IRL
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