[RTTY] N1NB CQ/NRJ WPX RTTY

[Steve Holton]

  CQ/NRJ WPX RTTYContest
N1NB      SINGLE-OP ALL LOW

   Band   QSO   Pts Mult
    80M    32    84   13
    40M   122   430   74
    20M    66   119   40
    15M   197   452  104
    10M    83   186   36
  Total   500  1271  267

Claimed Score =     339357


Had great expectations of reaching a new personal level in this one. To 
that end, instead of setting up in the hours just before the 'test: I setup 
the buffers; got DxTelnet-Writelog working; configured filters and 
localization on new DX cluster by Tuesday! For a procrastinator, this is 
nothing short of amazing.
However, it was not to be. For one, it snowed enough Thursday& Friday to 
necessitate shovelling the drive (and the neighbors) on Friday. So I ran 
out of gas too early Friday night, missing a lot of low band opportunity. 
Further, my back mentioned in no uncertain terms that it was not going to 
sit in the chair in the shack for extended times periods. So I ended up 
with less operating time than last year and somewhat lower numbers, but at 
least the rate was slightly better than last year. Due partly to a really 
nice run at the bitter end on 40M with QSO #500 coming at 23:59.
In any case a lot of fun. Many things seem to indicate a lot of newcomers 
in RTTY contesting which is great. The frequencies reported in DX spots 
remains problematic as always, but I did look twice when one station posted 
2 spots at the same time and same exact frequency - well they were both 
there about 500Hz apart.
Running Writelog with one radio in dual receive mode, MMTTY 1.63 seems to 
be definitely outperforming my DXP38 by a small but noticeable margin. 
Since I'm still using the DXP38 for FSK tranmit, I haven't encountered any 
of the reported problems with MMTTY. Once they are resolved I would plan to 
put MMTTY into xmit and the DXP38 into receive only as then I can grab 
calls etc from the MMTTY window.

73
Steve Holton N1NB