ARRL RTTY Roundup
Call: N5TW
Operator(s): KC5YKX, NA5TR, N5TW
Station: N5TW
Class: M/S LP
QTH: Team Sloth HQ, TX
Operating Time (hrs): 23.5
Summary:
Band QSOs
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80: 68
40: 237
20: 363
15: 249
10: 14
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Total: 931 State/Prov = 56 Countries = 40 Total
Score = 89,376
Club: Central Texas DX and Contest Club
Comments:
What a fun contest. I am really hooked on this RTTY
stuff and now I hope another is hooked. NA5TR, Rusty
Hill (Yet another Hill in 5 land that is on RTTY) came
in from Tomball, TX to op with Team Sloth at N5TW this
weekend. Rusty had never been on RTTY so the whole
thing was new to him. After a tour of N5TW and an
overview of how Writelog works we where off and going.
It did not take Rusty long to catch on and he was off
running and S&Ping on his own. Rusty put in alot
of chair time and to this I am thankful because I was
coming down with a cold and it was making life a
little rough. Tom did his usall best with propagation
advice and other staion functions.
Now on to the conditions. I was hopeful going in that
15M would be good to EU and JA but that was not the
case for us in central Texas, at least at Tom's. We
got some mults but rate was not there. Stateside it
was better and we pulled many W/VE mults there along
with rate. 20M was good for W/Ve as well but no EU
rate there either. So there is 40M, got to be some EU
rate there right? NOPE,worked some stations but as
many as I would have thought. JAs where there but
not enough to bump the meter. Did not have a problem
with CW guys as we stayed above 7050 while running to
give em space. 80M was 80M, what can you say.
Conditions where disturbed with and A of 40 Saturday
dropping to 20 Sunday so that played a part in things
from here.
Looks like the CARIB stations had it going on this
weeked with great QSO numbers. Particapation was up
for sure from the W/VE area. We worked about 20
more people this weekend than last year with 12 less
mults. 91% of out QSO total was W/VE so lots of folks
on just not alot of DX. We missed ND for WAS on RTTY.
Made WAS last year with VT holding out til the end but
no ND called us and all spots led to other places.
The staion played well again. Putting the Orion in FSK
made a big difference in filters and that thing has a
rock solid frontend. WOW. We did have a problem with
MMTTY in Writelog freezing and having to switch to
RTTYRite on the fly, so sorry to those left hanging
while we switched. I do not know if it is something
to do with the installation or the PII it is on or
both but we will have it fixed for next time I hope.
Thanks to everyone for the Qs and I will see you all
for XE and WPX next month from the Gulf Coast at home.
And a BIG thanks to Tom and Judy for hosting us, FB
visit as always and to Rusty, NA5TR, for being part of
Team Sloth this year.
73
Reid
KC5YKX
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