[3830] NAQP RTTY VA7IRL Single Op LP

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                    North American QSO Party, RTTY

Call: VA7IRL
Operator(s): VA7IRL
Station: VA7IRL

Class: Single Op LP
QTH: Richmond, BC
Operating Time (hrs): 7.25

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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   80:           
   40:           
   20:           
   15:           
   10:           
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Total:  125    34  Total Score = 4,250

Club: 

Team: 

Comments:

This proved to be a bit of a slog - I have an infuriating and intermittent S7-S9
noise problem at my QTH that seems to be connected to a switch in my chair. It
started about 5 minutes after my lunch break and quit about half an hour before
supper, pretty much wiping out the entire afternoon. Once I came back to it in
the evening, 40 and 80 were noisy and quiet at the same time. if you know what I
mean.

Still, contesting beats not contesting, and it was a great opportunity to pilot
an all-Mac OS X setup, using the peerless (and free!) cocoaModem RTTY program
with the equally peerless MacLoggerDX logging program. There were a couple of
fat-finger moments early on (apologies in particular to WB9Z who worked me twice
in 10 minutes - and kudos to him for blithely answering the second time!), but I
quickly established a rhythm. I will be attempting a phone contest next,
followed by CW, once I can get the keying interface figured out.

Thanks for the QSOs - logs will be uploaded to LOTW and eQSL once the contest
log entry deadline has passed.

See you again soon!

UE ;-)

VA7IRL

TS-940S/AT
Cushcraft R7
Homebrew 40m and 80m cloud-warmers
cocoaModem
MacLoggerDX


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