Ed, thanks for all the fun, looks like I worked you on 12 thru 160.
Enjoyed it, 73
Earl N5ZM..
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J. Edward (Ed) Muns wrote:
> The RTTY operation from P49X on Monday and Tuesday on the WARC bands and 160
> meters was a lot of fun. Not quite the rates as over the weekend, but it
> seemed that people enjoyed the diversity. I ran two radios in auto-CQ and
> removed the TX interlock in WriteLog, so both were transmitting some of the
> time. That was certainly a challenge for this operator when a couple
> stations were backed up on each radio! Complicating it further were two
> other factors. First, the rate simply wasn't high enough to sit there
> focused on the two radios all the time. I also didn't want to do too much
> rag chewing in order to keep the frequency open for everyone to get through
> who wanted to. So, I was catching up on email and web site administration
> while listening to a radio in each ear. Second, on 160, I was therefore
> often slow on the uptake in picking up callers. What would happen is that I
> was busy with something else and EU would call me while the Beverage switch
> was on one of the US antennas ... or vice versa. The Beverages had good
> selectivity. This is great when people call in from both regions and I am
> attentive switching back and forth but caused me to be slow in responding
> sometimes because I was distracted with other things. Anyway, thanks for
> your patience. I think most everyone got through where they wanted to. 12
> meters was rough and many never got an opening. But, I did work 12 meter
> stations from all over the US, Canada, Central and South America plus one
> Azores station.
>
> A number of stations worked me on 6-7 bands overall. I only worked one
> station on 10 meters. I know there were more 10-meter openings, but it
> simply wasn't a productive place for me to have one of the radios,
> particularly during RU. I did QSY several times on Monday and Tuesday when
> someone thought we might have propagation. 12 was also a challenge but most
> made it if they persisted. I imagine that 10 would have been about the
> same, had I auto-CQ'd there for long periods of time. On the other side, I
> think most everyone got through on 160. Some were surprised to get a reply
> by loading up some other band antenna on 160.
>
> Speaking of which, on the WARC bands I was running 100 watts to out-of-band
> antennas:
> 12 on a 4-el 10 or the C31XR,
> 17 on a 4-el 15 or C31XR and
> 30 on an 80-meter inverted V.
>
> Here are the band summaries for the five days prior to Round-Up and then the
> two days following:
>
> 2-6 January 2006
> QSOs Countries
> 80 70 12
> 40 266 37
> 20 149 27
> 15 115 22
> 10 1 1
>
> 9-10 January 2006
> QSOs Countries
> 160 78 8
> 30 111 19
> 17 127 24
> 12 38 4
>
> Thanks again for calling in,
> Ed - P49X (W0YK)
>
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