[RTTY] NAQP RTTY VA7IRL Single Op LP

[Anthony Rodgers]

                     North American QSO Party, RTTY

Call: VA7IRL
Operator(s): VA7IRL
Station: VA7IRL

Class: Single Op LP
QTH: Richmond, BC
Operating Time (hrs): 7.25

Summary:
  Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
    80:
    40:
    20:
    15:
    10:
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Total:  125    34  Total Score = 4,250

Club:

Team:

Comments:

This proved to be a bit of a slog - I have an infuriating and  
intermittent S7-S9
noise problem at my QTH that seems to be connected to a switch in my  
chair. It
started about 5 minutes after my lunch break and quit about half an  
hour before
supper, pretty much wiping out the entire afternoon. Once I came back  
to it in
the evening, 40 and 80 were noisy and quiet at the same time. if you  
know what I
mean.

Still, contesting beats not contesting, and it was a great  
opportunity to pilot
an all-Mac OS X setup, using the peerless (and free!) cocoaModem RTTY  
program
with the equally peerless MacLoggerDX logging program. There were a  
couple of
fat-finger moments early on (apologies in particular to WB9Z who  
worked me twice
in 10 minutes - and kudos to him for blithely answering the second  
time!), but I
quickly established a rhythm. I will be attempting a phone contest next,
followed by CW, once I can get the keying interface figured out.

Thanks for the QSOs - logs will be uploaded to LOTW and eQSL once the  
contest
log entry deadline has passed.

See you again soon!

UE ;-)

VA7IRL

TS-940S/AT
Cushcraft R7
Homebrew 40m and 80m cloud-warmers
cocoaModem
MacLoggerDX