[3830] RTTY Roundup K9TM SOLP

[T Mitchell (Tim)]

K9TM Single Operator, Low Power, Ohio

First the Score:
1121 Qso's
 105 Mults (48 states + 10 Canada + 47 DX Countries) (Missed NT VE8,YT VY1)
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117,705   Points

22 Hours of operation

Station:
10/15/20   KT34XA Stack 32' & 68'
40         Cushcraft 40-2CD 75'
80         Inverted V 60'
Radios:    FT1000D and IC756
S/W:       NA10.35 & RITTY

Next:
Thanks to mother nature, I had to take 2 hours off Sunday to tunnel a path
thru the snow to get my car out for Monday morning.  This resulted in a loss
of more than 80 QSO's at the rate I was going before and after that time off.
 This is because I had already taken my two, three hour off times.  Couldn't
find any kids in the neighborhood who wanted to make a buck!

The big experiment that failed miserably!  With the week off before the
contest I spent a lot of time switching the station over to run Writelog &
WinRTTY.  After numerous problems and not being satisfied with the receive
performance offered by WinRTTY not to mention Win95 problems, who invented this
god awful plug-n-play stuff ?  I had more conflicts and lock-ups... give me
back the old days where I told the computer what was in it... everything worked
then.  This was my third and final try with Writelog/WinRTTY and Win95.  I am
staying with DOS for my contesting !!!  Anybody want my copy of Writelog ? ...
they will not take it back.

I bailed out and went back to good old NA and RITTY.  Boy am I glad that I
did. NA worked flawlessly and so did RITTY !!!  RITTY copies stuff at my place
that WinRTTY apparently can't hear!

Anyway, all that aside... it was great fun.  I was pleasantly surprised at
the amount of activity and pleased that the station performed well again.

73 Tim K9TM tim.k9tm@totalink.net

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