[3830] Rus RTTY AB1J SOAB LP

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                    Russian RTTY WW Contest

Call: AB1J
Operator(s): AB1J
Station: AB1J

Class: SOAB LP
QTH: Waltham MA
Operating Time (hrs): 7

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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   80:           
   40:  28      9
   20:  59     20
   15:   3      2
   10:           
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Total:  90     31  Total Score = 21,350

Club: 

Comments:

For me, this is a warm up for the upcoming CQ WW RTTY.  It seemed to be a bigger
deal in the past, smaller this year maybe due to poor conditions (SFI=90 A=20
K=3 Saturday morning), less 15m and 10m activity, or maybe folks are boycotting
anything Russian.  Who knows?

One thing I've been struggling with is deciding whether to use N1MM+ or N1MM
Classic in the upcoming CQ WW RTTY.  N1MM+ has problems, more of a beta-blocker
than a beta release, at least for me in RTTY.  I have number of workarounds so
it's like playing video games and knowing the secret trap doors.  Getting bugs
fixed is an ordeal in itself.  I know N1MM Classic will do the job with no
problems.  I would prefer to keep up with the current technology, but for
contest I need reliability.  

In this contest, just to warp my mind further, I ran with five decoders. 
That's a lot to watch, but if I could hear it I could almost always decode it. 
I got mostly majority reports.  There wasn't much left on the table, just a few
sigs that were too weak, garbled or QRMed.  And I managed to pick most of those
up later under better circumstances.  I'm not sure I'll run all these decoders
during the WW-RTTY.  I'd need to hire a 2nd op just help watch them, making me
multi-op.

73,
Ken, AB1J

FT-2000
N1MM+ with MMVARI/MMTTY/2Tone/GRITTY   TrueTTY   WinH8
TS400S   RCKskimmer   XP
20-10M attic dipoles and outdoor 40m stealth antenna


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