[RTTY] RTTY Roundup Practice Thu

[Don Hill AA5AU]

I wish this practice was longer.  I found a few problems last night while
running WriteLog networked with TCP/IP.  I've reported the problems back to the
beta testers and to Wayne, W5XD.  With the RTTY lockouts enabled (last one
wins), the transmitters were dropping before the buffers were sent.  This was
great cause for concern.  I went back to NetDDE networking with WriteLog and
everything ran fine.  But by the time I got everything back working, the
practice was just about over.

I only worked 11 stations, so maybe tonight I'll get a better feel.  I will be
running a pair a new Icom IC-756PROIII's in the Roundup if I feel comfortable
enough with them.

I'm looking forward to next week's practice sessions.  Can they be extended to
one hour?  What's the schedule for Thursday and Friday's practice sessions?

I wasn't surprised at the lack of signals on 20 meters last night, but I was
surprised by the lack of participation in the practice.  I would have thought
there would have been more taking part.

I've read some reports of the PRO III introducing noise in the receive when
using narrow filters on CW, especially on 80 meters.  I was using the 250 hz
RTTY filter on 80 last night and didn't experience a problem.  I'll look at it
closer in next week's practice.

73, Don AA5AU

-----Original Message-----
From: rtty-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:rtty-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf
Of Dean Wood
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2004 11:05 AM
To: rtty at contesting.com
Subject: [RTTY] RTTY Roundup Practice Thu

The NCCC invites you to participate in tonight's (Thursday) RTTY Roundup
practice:

*RTTY Roundup Practice
Thursday, December 30; 7:00pm-7:30pm PST [In UTC: Friday, December 31;
03Z-03:30Z] Suggested frequencies: 3585, 7085, 14085 kHz, +/- (Let's be
courteous to ongoing QSOs.)
Format: RTTY Roundup exchange
RTTY Roundup rules: http://www.arrl.org/contests/rules/2005/rtty.html

You're also welcome to join the NCCC net at 04Z on 3.853MHz +/- 5kHz.

We'll also have RTTY Roundup practices next Thursday and Friday.

The Northern California Contest Club regularly organizes contest practice
sessions for other contests, and had a RTTY Roundup practice last January.  It
is a good opportunity to debug many setup issues before the real contest.

These practice sessions are useful to:
*Test your antennas to make sure they have survived the winter so far *Test RTTY
interface and tweak sound card levels *Verify your TX polarity is correct and
your TX signal is free from RFI *Test logging software, function key macros,
MMTTY setup (do you really want AFC or NET enabled?) *Test SO2R setup *Practice
moving stations to other bands for QSOs *Get in one more contest fix before the
new year

73...
-Dean - N6DE
NCCC VP/CC



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