[3830] 3830 Digest, Vol 135, Issue 210

Steve Dobbs ne3f at verizon.net
Wed Mar 19 21:43:11 EDT 2014


ok works for me

hope we ahve a dry run on the spread sheet

Steve
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>   1. CWopsT GW0ETF HP (webform at b4h.net)
>   2. CWopsT KI7Y HP (webform at b4h.net)
>   3. CWopsT W0EJ LP (webform at b4h.net)
>   4. CWopsT WB2VYK LP (webform at b4h.net)
>   5. CWopsT VE3KI LP (webform at b4h.net)
>   6. CWopsT W9CC LP (webform at b4h.net)
>   7. CWopsT K6HTN LP (webform at b4h.net)
>   8. CWopsT SM6CUK HP (webform at b4h.net)
>   9. CWopsT EA8OM(DJ1OJ) LP (webform at b4h.net)
>  10. CWopsT EA8OM(DJ1OJ) LP (webform at b4h.net)
>  11. CWopsT NN6T HP (webform at b4h.net)
>  12. BARTG AB1J SOAB LP (webform at b4h.net)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 20:28:41 +0000
> From: webform at b4h.net
> To: 3830 at contesting.com
> Subject: [3830] CWopsT GW0ETF HP
> Message-ID: <20140319202840.10543.79304 at b4h.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ascii"
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>                    CWops Mini-CWT Test - 1900Z Mar 19
>
> Call: GW0ETF
> Operator(s): GW0ETF
> Station: GW0ETF
>
> Class: Single Op HP
> QTH:
> Operating Time (hrs): 0.75
>
> Summary:
> Band  QSOs  Mults
> -------------------
>  160:
>   80:
>   40:
>   20:  17     17
>   15:
>   10:
> -------------------
> Total:  17     17  Total Score = 289
>
> Club:
>
> Comments:
>
>
>
>
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>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 20:31:08 +0000
> From: webform at b4h.net
> To: 3830 at contesting.com
> Subject: [3830] CWopsT KI7Y HP
> Message-ID: <20140319203104.10462.82341 at b4h.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ascii"
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>                    CWops Mini-CWT Test - 1900Z Mar 19
>
> Call: KI7Y
> Operator(s): KI7Y
> Station: KI7Y
>
> Class: Single Op HP
> QTH:
> Operating Time (hrs): 1
>
> Summary:
> Band  QSOs  Mults
> -------------------
>  160:
>   80:
>   40:
>   20:   7      6
>   15:  15     15
>   10:
> -------------------
> Total:  22     21  Total Score = 462
>
> Club: Willamette Valley DX Club
>
> Comments:
>
>
>
>
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> ------------------------------
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> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 20:35:28 +0000
> From: webform at b4h.net
> To: 3830 at contesting.com, w0ej at goldenwest.net
> Subject: [3830] CWopsT W0EJ LP
> Message-ID: <20140319203521.10522.75068 at b4h.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ascii"
>
>                    CWops Mini-CWT Test - 1900Z Mar 19
>
> Call: W0EJ
> Operator(s): W0EJ
> Station: W0EJ
>
> Class: Single Op LP
> QTH: SD
> Operating Time (hrs): 1
>
> Summary:
> Band  QSOs  Mults
> -------------------
>  160:
>   80:
>   40:
>   20:  12      8
>   15:  11     11
>   10:
> -------------------
> Total:  23     19  Total Score = 437
>
> Club:
>
> Comments:
>
> Thanks for all the Qs and warm welcome. Had a great time and amazed at how 
> many
> folks take out the time for a warm greeting.
> I was lucky to work Bert F6HKA, Lar K7SV, Marko N5ZO and Dean NW2K twice 
> each
> this session. What a blast.....
>
>
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>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 20:39:32 +0000
> From: webform at b4h.net
> To: 3830 at contesting.com, wb2vyk at gmail.com
> Subject: [3830] CWopsT WB2VYK LP
> Message-ID: <20140319203918.10563.30094 at b4h.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ascii"
>
>                    CWops Mini-CWT Test - 1900Z Mar 19
>
> Call: WB2VYK
> Operator(s): WB2VYK
> Station: WB2VYK
>
> Class: Single Op LP
> QTH: The Villages, FL
> Operating Time (hrs): .6
>
> Summary:
> Band  QSOs  Mults
> -------------------
>  160:
>   80:
>   40:
>   20:
>   15:   8     8
>   10:   3     1
> -------------------
> Total:  11     9  Total Score = 99
>
> Club:
>
> Comments:
>
> I listened to OM N4FP during 13Z session and thought it would be fun to 
> try, so
> this was my first CWT.  Kenwood TS-440SAT, 100 watts thru LDG Z100 tuner 
> to 20'
> fishing pole mounted against the house.
>
>
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> Message: 5
> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 20:44:34 +0000
> From: webform at b4h.net
> To: 3830 at contesting.com
> Subject: [3830] CWopsT VE3KI LP
> Message-ID: <20140319204432.10454.61050 at b4h.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ascii"
>
>                    CWops Mini-CWT Test - 1900Z Mar 19
>
> Call: VE3KI
> Operator(s): VE3KI
> Station: VE3KI
>
> Class: Single Op LP
> QTH: ON
> Operating Time (hrs): 1
>
> Summary:
> Band  QSOs  Mults
> -------------------
>  160:
>   80:
>   40:
>   20:   5      2
>   15:  21     21
>   10:   6      2
> -------------------
> Total:  32     25  Total Score = 800
>
> Club: Contest Club Ontario
>
> Comments:
>
>
>
>
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>
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> Message: 6
> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 20:46:07 +0000
> From: webform at b4h.net
> To: 3830 at contesting.com, lcard at hrtc.net
> Subject: [3830] CWopsT W9CC LP
> Message-ID: <20140319204604.16042.12345 at b4h.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ascii"
>
>                    CWops Mini-CWT Test - 1900Z Mar 19
>
> Call: W9CC
> Operator(s): W9CC
> Station: W9CC
>
> Class: Single Op LP
> QTH: IN
> Operating Time (hrs): 1
>
> Summary:
> Band  QSOs  Mults
> -------------------
>  160:
>   80:
>   40:   5      2
>   20:  11     11
>   15:   4      3
>   10:
> -------------------
> Total:  20     16  Total Score = 320
>
> Club:
>
> Comments:
>
>
>
>
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>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 7
> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 20:47:52 +0000
> From: webform at b4h.net
> To: 3830 at contesting.com, katehutton at gmail.com
> Subject: [3830] CWopsT K6HTN LP
> Message-ID: <20140319204739.11198.68178 at b4h.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ascii"
>
>                    CWops Mini-CWT Test - 1900Z Mar 19
>
> Call: K6HTN
> Operator(s): K6HTN
> Station: K6HTN
>
> Class: Single Op LP
> QTH:
> Operating Time (hrs):
>
> Summary:
> Band  QSOs  Mults
> -------------------
>  160:
>   80:
>   40:
>   20:   9     9
>   15:
>   10:
> -------------------
> Total:   9     9  Total Score = 81
>
> Club:
>
> Comments:
>
> Contesting skills rusty, was keying by hand & had some distractions.
> Otherwise fun.  Two non-members: K6MR KEN CA & W0EJ BILL SD. I think I
> needed SD! Nice.
>
>
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>
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>
> Message: 8
> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 20:52:58 +0000
> From: webform at b4h.net
> To: 3830 at contesting.com, sa6g at hotmail.com
> Subject: [3830] CWopsT SM6CUK HP
> Message-ID: <20140319205258.10522.63501 at b4h.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ascii"
>
>                    CWops Mini-CWT Test - 1900Z Mar 19
>
> Call: SM6CUK
> Operator(s): SM6CUK
> Station: SM6CUK
>
> Class: Single Op HP
> QTH:
> Operating Time (hrs):
>
> Summary:
> Band  QSOs  Mults
> -------------------
>  160:
>   80:
>   40:
>   20:  14      5
>   15:  20     20
>   10:
> -------------------
> Total:  34     25  Total Score = 850
>
> Club:
>
> Comments:
>
>
>
>
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>
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>
> Message: 9
> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 22:28:47 +0000
> From: webform at b4h.net
> To: 3830 at contesting.com
> Subject: [3830] CWopsT EA8OM(DJ1OJ) LP
> Message-ID: <20140319222842.20447.60639 at b4h.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ascii"
>
>                    CWops Mini-CWT Test - 1300Z Mar 19
>
> Call: EA8OM
> Operator(s): DJ1OJ
> Station: EA8OM
>
> Class: Single Op LP
> QTH:
> Operating Time (hrs):
>
> Summary:
> Band  QSOs  Mults
> -------------------
>  160:
>   80:
>   40:
>   20:   1     1
>   15:
>   10:   2     2
> -------------------
> Total:   3     3  Total Score = 9
>
> Club: Bavarian Contest Club
>
> Comments:
>
> very poor condx
>
>
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>
> Message: 10
> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 22:30:38 +0000
> From: webform at b4h.net
> To: 3830 at contesting.com
> Subject: [3830] CWopsT EA8OM(DJ1OJ) LP
> Message-ID: <20140319223035.10486.99956 at b4h.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ascii"
>
>                    CWops Mini-CWT Test - 1900Z Mar 19
>
> Call: EA8OM
> Operator(s): DJ1OJ
> Station: EA8OM
>
> Class: Single Op LP
> QTH:
> Operating Time (hrs):
>
> Summary:
> Band  QSOs  Mults
> -------------------
>  160:
>   80:
>   40:
>   20:   5      4
>   15:  14     11
>   10:   7      7
> -------------------
> Total:  26     22  Total Score = 572
>
> Club: Bavarian Contest Club
>
> Comments:
>
> much better condx, not good activity
>
>
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>
> Message: 11
> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 23:21:07 +0000
> From: webform at b4h.net
> To: 3830 at contesting.com, glenansue at datamaxemail.com
> Subject: [3830] CWopsT NN6T HP
> Message-ID: <20140319232103.26406.6728 at b4h.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ascii"
>
>                    CWops Mini-CWT Test - 1900Z Mar 19
>
> Call: NN6T
> Operator(s): NN6T
> Station: NN6T
>
> Class: Single Op HP
> QTH: AZ
> Operating Time (hrs): 1
>
> Summary:
> Band  QSOs  Mults
> -------------------
>  160:
>   80:
>   40:
>   20:
>   15:  15     15
>   10:   8      4
> -------------------
> Total:  23     19  Total Score = 437
>
> Club: CWOPS
>
> Comments:
>
>
>
>
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>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 12
> Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 00:58:19 +0000
> From: webform at b4h.net
> To: 3830 at contesting.com, ktfrog007 at aol.com
> Subject: [3830] BARTG AB1J SOAB LP
> Message-ID: <20140320005817.8673.54591 at b4h.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ascii"
>
>                    BARTG HF RTTY Contest
>
> Call: AB1J
> Operator(s): AB1J
> Station: AB1J
>
> Class: SOAB LP
> QTH: Waltham, MA
> Operating Time (hrs): 30
>
> Summary:
> Band  QSOs  Countries  Call Areas
> -----------------------------------
>   80:
>   40:   76      12         13
>   20:  151      33         13
>   15:  189      47         13
>   10:   97      35          7
> -----------------------------------
> Total:  513     127         46  Continents = 6  Total Score = 532,494
>
> Club:
>
> Comments:
>
> This is a second tier contest that should be right up there with the big 
> RTTY
> events, but isn't.  What it has going for it are the Expert/48/30/6 
> categories,
> lots of mults and being at the March equinox.  On the other hand, it is
> remarkably user-unfriendly with the 5 minute rule, the 3 hour off minimum, 
> no
> low power category  and conflict with the RUDX.  Plus BARTG could drop the 
> 599,
> as they do with their Sprint.  This is a contest with a lot of potential 
> if the
> sponsors wanted to bump it up a notch or three.
>
> Usually I go light on this contest, but this time I had some station 
> testing to
> do and my other weekend plans fell through, so I used up my whole SOAB 30 
> hours,
> although it was more like 22 hours before being inflated by the 3 hour off
> rule.
>
> My main concern had to do with running a RCKskimmer in very close 
> quarters.
> After previously trying some other schemes, I put a splitter in the RX 
> antenna
> loop on my FT-2K, dividing the signal between the FT-2K and the skimmer 
> TS940S.
> Each signal is down about 3.6 dB, 3 dB due to the split and 0.6 dB from
> insertion loss.  Most of the time I didn't miss the 3.6 dB, but if I 
> needed it
> back I could just pop the RX antenna button OFF to send all the signal to 
> the
> FT-2K. I did that maybe 8 times in the contest.  Overall this worked well 
> and
> is the best method I've come up with yet.  It's still a compromise 
> situation.
> I think for some contests I might locate the skimmer station elsewhere and
> Telnet it back to my QTH.
>
> One guy refused to work me.  We had a previous busted QSO (from my POV) 
> due to
> QRM and when I tried again later he completely ignored me.  A similar 
> thing
> happened to me in the WPX-RTTY last month.  I wish word would go forth to 
> all
> nations and peoples that dupes don't hurt you in the computer age.  Often 
> they
> save you points.
>
> Another guy worked me but NILed me out of his log because I wasn't sending 
> my
> exchange in the correct (according to him) format (Me: 599-123-1234 
> 123-1234
> Him: AB1J NIL SET UR EXCHANGE ACCORDING TO THE RULES).  The funny thing 
> was he
> had a macro for this, which means he was locked and loaded and just 
> waiting for
> miscreants like me to cross his path.  Then BAM! he got me right between 
> the
> eyes.  I guess I made his day but didn't know whether to laugh or cry so I
> QSYed.
>
> With the 2 element exchange, I made heavy use of the three decoding 
> windows. On
> rare occasions I grabbed the call from one, serial from another and time 
> from
> the third.  This amused me for some reason.  I noticed lots of requests 
> for
> repeats.
>
> The bands were good, but 40 had a lot of distortion Friday night.  This is
> fairly common at my QTH in the evening.  I fight back with 2Tone set to 
> Flutter
> and using a wider MMTTY profile based on the Fluttered/Multipath profiles 
> (these
> are essentially the same under the hood) plus a lot of AGN AGN?.  I slept 
> during
> the night but wish I had stayed up to catch the late night 20m deep 
> Russians in
> this contest or the RUDX.
>
> Thanks for the Qs.  I had a good time in spite of myself.  For me the next 
> RTTY
> big one is the WW in September.  Exciting times await.
>
> 73,
> Ken, AB1J
>
> FT2000-N1MM-MMVARI-MMTTY-2TONE-Win8
> TS940S-RCKskimmer-XP
> 20-10 attic dipoles and outdoor stealth 40m coaxial dipole
>
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