ARRL RTTY Roundup
Call: WB0TEV
Operator(s): WB0TEV
Station: WB0TEV
Class: SO Unlimited HP
QTH: NTX
Operating Time (hrs): 10:31
Summary:
Band RTTY Qs Dig Qs
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80: 68 0
40: 138 14
20: 228 20
15: 17 4
10: 0 0
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Total: 451 38 State/Prov = 54 Countries = 40 Total Score = 45,966
Club: DFW Contest Group
Comments:
Only a part time effort (10h31m) due to competing opportunities/demands. As
expected, FT8's primary utility was for scooping up DX mults (40% of DX mults
came from FT8) while RTTY of course was the mode for rate. Of US mults, only
missed OK as I am too close here in NTX and I wasn't on the air Saturday night
when I could have gotten it on 80m. Only worked the main VE mults (QC,ON, MB,
SK, AB & BC) the remainder were conspicuous by their absence. Most exotic
mult from FT8 was 9L1YXJ.
I seriously doubt that FT8 will supplant RTTY in this contest long term, despite
the concerns of some. It will however make a nice supplement, a source of
otherwise unobtainable DX mults and for the big guns who manage to work the
bands dry otherwise it will provide a pool of fresh meat as I suspect there are
many FT8 types who don't do RTTY contesting but will dive in to the RU.
Kudos to Rick Ellison N2AMG (the chief RTTY/digital coder on the N1MM team) and
the rest of the crew for coding up an initial interface between N1MM+ and WSJT-X
in support of this and other RTTY/Digi contests. For something that was coded
up in a hurry it worked out pretty well and I'm sure will only improve in
further releases. Rick and others even hung out on the N1MM+ groups io
reflector during the contest fielding questions and assisting those that didn't
have a setting or two quite right. Indeed that's what alerted me that I needed
to go back into the N1MM+ contest setup and choose DIGITAL instead of RTTY and
do a Rescore Current contest to have it pick up and score the FT8 QSOs
properly.
73,
Victor WB0TEV
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