[Mldxcc] Fw: NAQP RTTY W1RH Single Op LP

[Robert Hess]

The NAPQ tests just scream SO2R, but I've never done it with RTTY.  So, I was convinced this was the time to do it.  I ordered an Edgeport USB/Serial box, which arrived last week, and tried to get my laptop up as the second computer on Saturday morning.  What a mistake.

The computer recognized the Edgeport but I couldn't get the serial ports to talk to the second FT-1000MP, either FSK or the radio.  Switched from my Windows 7 laptop to my XP laptop and same thing.  

Five minutes before the start of the contest, I decided to just do SO1R.  Started the contest and no RTTY.  Grrrrr!  Spent 25 minutes trying to find the problem and then realized that in all of my Edgeport troubleshooting I had plugged a serial cable into the wrong port on my home made 2-radio FSK adapter.  Got on the air at about 1825 and realized (near the end of the contest) that I should have waited until 1831 and taken that first half hour as an official break.

So....no SO2R plus I really missed out on juicy 10 M mults in the first half hour and the same on 80 in the last half hour (when I realized I had to shut down).  80 was hopping and I wanted to at least break 500 Q's.

Sorry I let you down, Team 1 but I guarantee that my NAQP RTTY scores will be far better in the future because I WILL be SO2R.

Bob
W1RH

                    North American QSO Party, RTTY - February

Call: W1RH
Operator(s): W1RH
Station: W1RH

Class: Single Op LP
QTH: CA
Operating Time (hrs): 9.5

Summary:
Band  QSOs  Mults
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   80:   55    22
   40:  100    40
   20:  150    40
   15:  139    38
   10:   54    24
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Total:  498   164  Total Score = 81,672

Club: Northern California Contest Club

Team: NCCC #1

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