NA Sprint RTTY Contest
Call: W3YY
Operator(s): W3YY
Station: W3YY
Class: Single Op HP
QTH: VA
Operating Time (hrs): 3.6
Summary:
Band QSOs Op Time
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80: 33 1.0
40: 49 1.4
20: 24 1.2
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Total: 106 Mults = 33 Total Score = 3,498
Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club
Team:
Comments:
Having just completed building my new FSK opto-coupled interface I thought it
would be fun to try it out in a contest. It was!
I made the usual mistake of waiting an hour before the contest to try eveything
out. The FSK interface which had worked perfectly with MMTTY alone, failed to
initially work with N1MM. In fact the settings I tried caused the computer to
crash a cause numerous reboots. Nothing was wrong with the interface, but my
N1MM settings needed to be changed after going from AFSK to FSK. Reading the
manual and changing some settings solved the problem and about 5 minutes before
the contest I was go to go with pure FSK.
I've operated numerous CW and Phone Sprints, but RTTY was still a learning
experience. I made about 15 QSO's in the first hour, spending lots of time
repeatedly fine tuning the keyboard macros and getting used to finding guys
ready to answer a call.
I wound up with about the same number of Q's I made in my first ever CW Sprint
many years ago, but now I'm ready for the next RTTY Sprint.
Thanks to all for the QSO's. RYRYRYRY.
73, Bob - W3YY
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