[3830] NAQP SSB W4LT(@W4DUG) Single Op Assisted LP

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                    North American QSO Party, SSB - January

Call: W4LT
Operator(s): W4LT
Station: W4DUG

Class: Single Op Assisted LP
QTH: WCF
Operating Time (hrs): 4.5
Remote Operation

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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  160:    0     0
   80:    9     5
   40:  231    48
   20:  154    39
   15:    0     0
   10:    0     0
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Total:  394    92  Total Score = 36,248

Club: Florida Contest Group

Team: FCG-2

Comments:

Rig: Flex6400 / Maestro / 100% remote operation
Ant:  C31XR @ 108ft, EF240x @ 118ft, OCF Sloper @ 90ft

Got in late to the party due to personal commitments. Only had a few hours to
spare.  Wanted to test and see how two things worked on our #1 remote: 
Bandwidth effects on control of the radio and my personal voice DVK system.  

Using the QoS settings on my router, I reduced bandwidth to around 144kbps
outbound (old phone modem speed!).  worked just fine, however, this seemed to
increase both jitter and packet loss. Sounded somewhat robotic and also had lots
of dropped packets. The spectrum scope on Flex really hates this and the frame
rate was reduced.  Affected my local mic voice much less than the DVK.  After
about a half hour of this shenanigans, I said the hell with it and didnt use the
canned voice files again: The canned alphabet and numbers sounded like crap with
all the gaps in them.  Ditched them and went back to just having fun.

The TARC big tower antennas are simply way too high for this contest, but kept
20 open late into the night with lots of surprised west coast qso's.  The 40m
beam is still my favorite low power antenna at the club... you can build lovely
pileups with it, so didnt move around much on 40.   

This is such a fun contest! Seems to bring out the knucklehead in me! 

-lu-w4lt-


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