[3830] RTTY Roundup N1IXF Single Op LP

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ARRL RTTY Roundup

Call: N1IXF
Operator(s): N1IXF
Station: N1IXF

Class: Single Op LP
QTH: CT
Operating Time (hrs): 23:54

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
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   80:  203
   40:  303
   20:  451
   15:   54
   10:    2
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Total: 1013  State/Prov = 53  Countries = 52  Total Score = 106,365

Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club

Comments:

Another great RTTY contest and, as expected, the propagation favored the low
bands. I set a goal to reach 300 Qs on each of the bands 80, 40 and 20 and
didn't reach that on 80 despite my best efforts.  Fewer operator errors on my
part this outing but I still occasionally get bollixed using ESM as I can't
break the habit of hitting the space bar to switch fields in the N1MM+ entry
window.  Apologies to those on the other end of this, usually slowing things
down asking an unneeded "Agn?."

I expected 15 to be disappointing but not that bad as I had over 300 last year.
 It wasn't for lack of checking the band, as I worked everything I heard, and
spent maybe too much time calling CQ there.  I wished I had SO2R set up as that
would have allowed me to use the typical RTTY "down-time" S&Ping
this and other bands.  Tried calling on 10 a few times to see if anyone was
tuning there and that was obviously not worth doing.  One of my 2 contacts on
that band only happened because Ed, P49X moved me there to work him. However,
at the start of the contest, it seemed like every RTTY station in the US was on
20M calling and stepping on each other... wall-to-wall coverage of the RTTY
contest segment and more. Even with my narrowest filters and cracking back on
the RF gain, the first hour was a challenge until things eventually settled
down. 

The participation on the US side was good and I only missed ND, ME and DC (can
you even have a station there?). Need more activity in Canada... I never heard
LB, NB, NS, NT, NU, PE, YT... some were probably there but without access to
spots I didn't find them and they never called in.  As for EU, generally I
could hear many of them but at LP they couldn't hear me.  Judging from the
serial numbers, there must have been many more EU stations working each other
that I couldn't hear.  As far as JA, I only heard the guys out West working
them, like listening to a one-sided conversation.

Thanks for the Qs and see you next year.

Oh yeah one more note to self, one of the best things about contesting on a
snowy weekend?... somebody else has to clear the driveway.

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SO1R Set up...
FT1000MP (w/ roofing fltr and click mods)
Homebrew FSK/Audio interface
SteppIR 3 el @ 50'
40M2L @ 61' (new just in time addition this past summer)
N1MM Logger+ with MMTTY and 2Tone decoders


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