[RTTY] CQWW RTTY Contest . . . First

[m0zak]

Hi,
       My first foray into the world of digital communication took place 
this weekend in the CQWW RTTY contest. I guess, like most of you, I 
wanted my first digital qso to be a 'perfect' affair with an experienced 
operator that would spend sometime during the qso telling me that trace 
of my signal was this . . my typing was that . . advice on macro's etc 
etc . . .thats the romantic in me I suppose. .  instead I used the 
contest to 'find my feet' with some 'rubber stamp' qso's, although some 
ops were willing to be quite chatty given it was a contest,  which I 
did. . . I dont think my 41 qso's for 3700 odd points are going to 
trouble the big guns at all . . . everything, by and large, was taken at 
a rather leisurely pace here . . .I found an operating technique, after 
about 10 or so qso's, that suited me and my set up, which was search and 
pounce . . . I'm not going to 'wax lyrical' about digital communications 
but will say that I've missed out on one facet of this great hobby of 
ours  for too long, which has now being remedied.
My thanks go to the people that gave me good advice . . .you know who 
you are . . .
Contest Statistics . . .
Average rate: 4.6 QSOs/hour

                QSO    G    EU    DX    Pts    DXCC    CQ    States
20m        20        0    17      3      43       14            6       1
15m        21         0    10     11     53       12            6      0
Total      41         0    27     14     96       26            12    1

Score: 96*39 = 3744 points
                                                        I will submit my 
log to the powers that be if for no other reason than to get a correct 
score . . . Thanks for the bandwidth . . .

Take care
Jim Steel
m0zak