[3830] BARTG Sprint W0YK/6 SO Expert HP
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Sun Jan 23 14:01:51 PST 2011
BARTG RTTY Sprint
Call: W0YK/6
Operator(s): W0YK
Station: W0YK
Class: SO Expert HP
QTH: CA
Operating Time (hrs): 22:35
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Pts
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80: 193 193
40: 422 422
20: 482 482
15: 229 229
10: 0 0
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Total: 1326 1326 Mults = 85 Total Score = 628,050
Club: Loma Prieta Contest Club
Comments:
As always, it was a pleasure to work everyone! Thanks for all the band moves
and the many, many who gave me 4-band Qs. And, there were lots of Qs with
serial number 1 or otherwise low numbers. Several stations called in and asked
what the contest was and what they needed to send. That’s how contesting
grows and improves for everyone. Thanks for playing the game with me.
Another contest without 10 meters … and, for us on the west coast, virtually
no Europe. Our access to Asia and Oceania doesn’t begin to compensate for
the lost Europe QSOs and multipliers. Overall, it was “sprint-like†for
barely 12 hours, then a real grind, but good practice for personal management
of sleep deprivation and boredom that are a part of longer contests. BARTG
RTTY Sprint, in particular, is a great warm-up for CQ WPX RTTY which was my
objective this weekend.
20 and 40 long path to Europe early Saturday morning never really developed
although some signals were quite strong, e.g., the RF3, but I still couldn’t
get through even when no one else was calling! Saturday night yielded only 1-2
Europeans on 40. I kept checking EU spots and the frequency was always dead
quiet. Thank goodness for the call-area mults which were mostly worked in the
first few hours, ultimately missing only Canadian 0 and 8 plus six of the VK
areas. My 47 DXCC mults is a dismal result. I forgot about Packet until
half-way through and then turned it on to feed the bandmaps. Often found
myself arriving at a new mult just as AA5AU was finishing his QSO, hi!
Assistance is foreign to me, but it did offer another distraction to fight
boredom during the last 12 hours. It also served to exercise SO2V operating in
each radio to find mults and new stations while continuing to CQ on the same
band.
Despite thinking the station was ready to go when I went to bed Friday night,
at 12z Saturday I found the left radio wasn’t keying. It took 24 minutes to
troubleshoot and fix that while working the contest with the other radio. Made
for a slow start. There was also a noticeable difference in the effect of my
6-character call sign, vs. 4, and the 5-character ‘BARTG’ contest
identifier in CQ messages. This threw off the timing between the two radios.
I setup my new traveling computers, with USB soundcards and USB Serial
adapters, mainly to see if multiple decoder windows worked since I had lost
much of that capability on my home shack computers and prior traveling laptops.
Pleasant surprise was that the feature worked great all weekend. Accordingly,
I was able to get useful side-by-side comparison of different MMTTY profiles
and the Hal DXP38. Furthermore, there were a number of times where only one of
the four decoders printed properly … and each one of them was the winner at
various times and situations. This makes the case for the hassle of setting
them all up in the first place.
The new Dual Peak Filter (DPF) in MMTTY is a double-edged sword. It is very
selective and is able to pull single calls out of a pile-up nicely, but
requires precise tuning. If the signal was more than 10-20 Hz off, there was
often no copy, even for very strong signals. Turning off the DPF yielded more
tuning tolerance, but the winner in this regard is still the Hal DXP38 that can
typically decode signals further off frequency than MMTTY. The weak-signal
profile that AA6YQ created for MMTTY worked well, although there were very few
situations were it copied better than the Standard MMTTY profile. The Flutter
(FIR) and Multi-path profiles were also useful in a few situations. So, that
makes five parallel decoders, each of which saved the QSO in a number of cases.
Then, add one or more decoder windows for the second receiver and the LCD
screen is really packed! And this is just one radio, so there is no way to get
all these windows on one monitor for two radios … another advantage of a
dedicated networked PC and UI per radio.
Hope to do it again with you all during WPX RTTY in three weeks.
Ed â€" W0YK
QSO/Dx+Ca+Co by hour and band
Hour 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm OffTime
D1-1200Z 21/11 51/20 - - - 72/31 72/31
D1-1300Z 17/0 74/4 - - - 91/4 163/35
D1-1400Z 4/0 25/1 1/0 - - 30/1 193/36
D1-1500Z - 28/0 23/4 - - 51/4 244/40
D1-1600Z --+-- 7/1 61/12 --+-- --+-- 68/13 312/53
D1-1700Z - - 63/2 32/3 - 95/5 407/58
D1-1800Z - - 73/0 63/0 - 136/0 543/58
D1-1900Z - - 51/0 38/4 - 89/4 632/62
D1-2000Z - - 30/1 44/2 - 74/3 706/65
D1-2100Z - - 48/0 19/2 - 67/2 773/67
D1-2200Z - - 58/2 23/0 - 81/2 854/69
D1-2300Z - 18/0 49/2 1/0 - 68/2 922/71
D2-0000Z --+-- --+-- 24/2 9/0 --+-- 33/2 955/73
D2-0100Z 2/0 39/1 1/0 - - 42/1 997/74 41
D2-0200Z 26/0 35/2 - - - 61/2 1058/76
D2-0300Z 29/0 22/1 - - - 51/1 1109/77
D2-0400Z 28/0 15/1 - - - 43/1 1152/78
D2-0500Z 19/0 18/1 - - - 37/1 1189/79
D2-0600Z 2/0 5/1 - - - 7/1 1196/80 40
D2-0700Z 12/0 12/0 - - - 24/0 1220/80
D2-0800Z 11/0 12/0 --+-- --+-- --+-- 23/0 1243/80
D2-0900Z 5/1 16/2 - - - 21/3 1264/83
D2-1000Z 7/0 22/1 - - - 29/1 1293/84
D2-1100Z 10/0 23/1 - - - 33/1 1326/85
Total: 193/12 422/37 482/25 229/11 0/0
80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total %
NA 190 294 369 200 0 1053 79.4
AS 3 102 76 14 0 195 14.7
OC 0 15 6 6 0 27 2.0
EU 0 5 26 0 0 31 2.3
AF 0 1 2 3 0 6 0.5
SA 0 5 3 6 0 14 1.1
6W 1 1
9M6 1 1
BV 1 1
BY 1 1
CE9 1 1 2
CM 1 2 3
CT3 1 1
DL 1 1 2
DU 1 2 1 4
E5/s 1 1
EA 1 2 3
EA8 2 2 4
F 4 4
FG 1 1
FO 1 1
G 4 4
GI 1 1
GM 3 3
HI 1 1 1 3
HL 7 4 1 12
HS 1 1 2
HZ 1 1
I 1 1
JA 2 89 65 13 169
JT 1 1
K 165 257 326 184 932
KH6 3 1 4
KL 6 5 6 3 20
KP4 1 1
LA 1 1
LU 1 1 3 5
OA 1 1
OH 2 2 4
ON 1 1
P4 1 1
PA 4 4
PY 1 1 2 4
PZ 1 1
SP 1 1
TF 1 1
UA 1 1
UA9 1 3 4 8
VE 17 25 33 10 85
VK 4 1 1 6
XE 2 3 3 8
YB 3 2 1 6
ZL 1 3 4
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