[RTTY] P49X WARC & 160 Operation

[Earl]

Ed, thanks for all the fun, looks like I worked you on 12 thru 160.

Enjoyed it, 73

Earl N5ZM..
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J. Edward (Ed) Muns wrote:

> The RTTY operation from P49X on Monday and Tuesday on the WARC bands and 160
> meters was a lot of fun.  Not quite the rates as over the weekend, but it
> seemed that people enjoyed the diversity.  I ran two radios in auto-CQ and
> removed the TX interlock in WriteLog, so both were transmitting some of the
> time.  That was certainly a challenge for this operator when a couple
> stations were backed up on each radio!  Complicating it further were two
> other factors.  First, the rate simply wasn't high enough to sit there
> focused on the two radios all the time.  I also didn't want to do too much
> rag chewing in order to keep the frequency open for everyone to get through
> who wanted to.  So, I was catching up on email and web site administration
> while listening to a radio in each ear.  Second, on 160, I was therefore
> often slow on the uptake in picking up callers.  What would happen is that I
> was busy with something else and EU would call me while the Beverage switch
> was on one of the US antennas ... or vice versa.  The Beverages had good
> selectivity.  This is great when people call in from both regions and I am
> attentive switching back and forth but caused me to be slow in responding
> sometimes because I was distracted with other things.  Anyway, thanks for
> your patience.  I think most everyone got through where they wanted to.  12
> meters was rough and many never got an opening.  But, I did work 12 meter
> stations from all over the US, Canada, Central and South America plus one
> Azores station.
> 
> A number of stations worked me on 6-7 bands overall.  I only worked one
> station on 10 meters.  I know there were more 10-meter openings, but it
> simply wasn't a productive place for me to have one of the radios,
> particularly during RU.  I did QSY several times on Monday and Tuesday when
> someone thought we might have propagation.  12 was also a challenge but most
> made it if they persisted.   I imagine that 10 would have been about the
> same, had I auto-CQ'd there for long periods of time.  On the other side, I
> think most everyone got through on 160.  Some were surprised to get a reply
> by loading up some other band antenna on 160.
> 
> Speaking of which, on the WARC bands I was running 100 watts to out-of-band
> antennas:
> 	12 on a 4-el 10 or the C31XR,
> 	17 on a 4-el 15 or C31XR and
> 	30 on an 80-meter inverted V.
> 
> Here are the band summaries for the five days prior to Round-Up and then the
> two days following:
> 
> 	2-6 January 2006
>   	QSOs	Countries
>  80	 70      12
>  40	266	   37
>  20	149	   27
>  15	115	   22
>  10	  1	    1
> 
> 	9-10 January 2006
> 	QSOs	Countries
> 160	 78	    8
>  30	111	   19
>  17	127	   24
>  12	 38	    4
> 
> Thanks again for calling in,
> Ed - P49X (W0YK)
> 
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Earl F. Smith - N5ZM
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