NA Sprint RTTY Contest - September
Call: K6DAJ
Operator(s): K6DAJ
Station: K6DAJ
Class: Single Op HP
QTH: Berkeley, CA
Operating Time (hrs): 4
Summary:
Band QSOs Op Time
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80: 26 0
40: 41 24
20: 5 4
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Total: 72 Mults = 28 Total Score = 2,016
Club: Northern California Contest Club
Team:
Comments:
Ouch, more like a slog than a sprint! Much slower than I had expected/hoped (my
first NA RTTY sprint...is this typical?)
Seemed like too few participants and the propagation was lagging the band
changes... i.e. everyone left 20 too soon, then they left 40 just as it was
starting to get dark As for 80, for me it was a fight to be heard, even with a
KW. I guess that's the west coast experience.
Might have benefited from setting up 2tone, as had some trouble decoding people.
Half way through the contest, I started up the IC-7610 decoder which sometimes
beat MMTTY. Also, kept turning on and off the IC-7610 RTTY "TPF"
filter. Sometimes it helped and sometimes it hurt. Also kept switching between
my TX and RX antennas in an attempt to improve copy, Would have benefited from
monitoring two bands at once, but I hadn't set up the second decoder and didn't
want to try and do it in the middle of the contest. Need to spend more time
tweaking my macro file too.
20m: 4-el @ 28'
40/80m: 33' vertical
IC-7610, IC-PW1
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