[Mldxcc] some random NAQP notes

[Jeff Stai]

Nice to see all of the high NCCC scores, and to see NCCC back on top of the
team scores - especially to be ahead of SWACC (who I call "the usual
suspects").

Very odd indeed about 10 meters. I tried to encourage several of you to try
10 and it never worked. If N6RO and W7RN can't hear each other it must
indeed be a dead band. (I'm curious about K6NV as well, I did ask him to
move but I don't know that he tried it. I mean, Truckee at least should
have been workable!)

I tend to let the bands tell me what to do. I start on the highest bands
available - 10, 15, and/or 20 - and stay at it until the rate falls.
Fortunately 20 was very strong and kept me at 100+ per hour for over 3
hours. 15 managed only 1/3 of the rate of 20 but provided many needed
mults, including some I managed to move there from 20.

How long a break to take is the judgment call, but 40 has been opening very
early and I decided to go for it after just an hour. 20 was also still
working for another 2 hours and provided more mult moving opportunities.
Then 80 opened wide just in time to let me run to the end of my 10 hours.

Speaking of moving mults, being prepared and practiced at it is key, as
well as watching the spot in your logger where it tells you that you need
them on another band. Obviously running on two bands SO2R gives you a great
head start to move one to the other band, but being ready on another
available band is best - I was able to get a KH6 to move to 15 because I
was prepared to go there even though I was no longer running that band.

"Prepared" means you have a receiver set on a clear frequency in the band
you want to have available. Your logger (probably) has the tools to read
the frequency of any attached RX and send that as part of a message. I'm
only familiar with Writelog but I have to think N1MM can do it too.

My message in Writelog to complete a QSO and request a move looks like this:

%RPSE %ZA.1 TU W7RN CQ %E

 The %Z command tells Writelog to send the frequency of the specified
radio. I use one PC per radio and network them, so %ZA.1 says to send the
frequency of the the first Entry Window attached to PC A, which in my case
is the main VFO from. The decimal point says to send the number at 100Hz
resolution - e.g. 14086.1.

If you do SO2R from one PC the syntax would look like %Z.1 to send the
first Entry Window, %Z.2 the second, and so on.

This seems complicated but once you have the right syntax set up it takes
care of itself. Note that this also works for CW contests.

The next big RTTY contest happens to be the next NAQP RTTY in July. That
should give you plenty of time to get this working. ;)

73 jeff wk6i



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