[3830] CQWW RTTY P40MM(K3MM) SOAB LP

[tgstewart at pepco.com]

                     CQ/RJ Worldwide DX Contest, RTTY
                    
Call: P40MM
Operator(s): K3MM
Station: P40V

Class: SOAB LP
QTH: P4
Operating Time (hrs): 46
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band     QSOs   Pts  States   DX   Zones
------------------------------------------
   80:     90    267     34     20     10
   40:    305    889     46     55     18
   20:    794   2333     52     74     26
   15:    875   2575     54     85     31
   10:    908   2684     54     78     24
------------------------------------------
Total:   2972   8748    240    312    109  =  5,782,428

Club/Team: Potomac Valley Radio Club

Comments:

I set out to break the World SOLP record that WF1B set back in 97 from the same 
QTH using P40TT.  As it turns out, I set my sights a little too low!  After 
about 24 hours, the LP record was history.  What was left to do?  Break the HP 
record running LP, of course!  Tim, N4GN, set the World SOHP record from EA8BH 
last year.  I knew it was 5 million plus but couldnt remember the actual score 
I was shooting for.  I found at after I got back it was just over 5 million 
points.  When Tim called me on Sunday for a QSO, he started asking score 
questions.  When I told him I was at 4.73? mil, he said "Uh oh"! Heh heh...

I have to give a big "thank you" to Carl, AI6V, for providing a really fine ham 
rental QTH.  It was my first time to Aruba and it's by far the most "civilized" 
ham accomodations I've yet encountered in the "islands" at a very reasonable 
rate.  His place was impeccably clean and organized as well as being a first 
rate ham station.  It made my job of installing the additional gear for the 
RTTY contest very easy.  Although I had to rebuild the 80 meter dipole, there 
was plenty of spare material there as well as a climbing belt, so it was a 
fairly easy and safe job.

I'd also like to thank N3OC, Brian, the current PVRC president, who went to a 
lot of effort to provide me with 2 notebook computers that would run RITTY 
software.  I spent a lot of time playing around with Writelog and MMTTY, etc., 
but in the end came back to the old trusted WF1B/RITTY combo that works so well 
if you can get it to work!  The problem with the Windows alternatives are their 
reliance on pointing devices to get a lot of tasks done.  My notebooks had 
touchpads (nasty ones at that) and no spare ports for a mouse interface.  I 
would have committed suicide well be for the contest was over had I been forced 
to go that route.  Once tweaked, I found the MMTTY to be a very good 
alternative to RITTY performance-wise.  I wish I had set it up in parallel to 
RITTY to compare them in real time, but never got around to it.

Anyway, I ran good old WF1B's RTTY v 5.01 along with RITTY 4.53 and except for 
a couple of crashes from one of the notebooks, it worked great.

The station was an existing FT1000D along with one of my FT1000MP's, some added 
BPF's, etc., and the usual antenna farm at P40V:  a 10/15 "monobander", and 
20/40 "monobander, a C31XR, and dipoles for 80/160.  The 3 towers are about 35 
to 50 feet high I think, two of which are amazingly close together.  In fact, I 
had to be careful not to point the C31 thru the 10/15 and vice versa as they 
severely degraded each other when they were lined up.


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