[RTTY] W7WHY SCC RTTY

[Tom Osborne]

SCC RTTY Championship

Call: W7WHY
Operator(s): W7WHY + PACKET
Station: W7WHY

Class: SOAB(A) HP
QTH: OR
Operating Time (hrs): 2.5
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Pts  Mults
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   80:   4     6     4
   40:  16    33    15
   20:  14    30    13
   15:
   10:
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Total:  34    69    32  Total Score = 2,208

Club:

Comments:

Just a couple of hours to play in this one.  We had our "In the Bag" 
backpack givaway at our church and gave out 120 backpacks full of school 
supplies for the kids.  Also had a big barbacue and "Jump for Fun" stuff for 
the kids and their families.  Got home windblown, sunburned, and tired, but 
a good tired.

Twenty was just about gone and when I got to 40, couldn't get anyone to hear 
me.  I was thinking it was the 'shades of the NS Laddder' last Thurdsay 
night.  I finally decided to go out and see what the heck was going on and 
found the 40 meter dipole laying on the ground.

I took the 80 meter antenna down last weekend to put on a new coax, and when 
I took it down, I had to take the 40 meter antenna down first to get it out 
of the way.  Found I had forgot to pull the 40 antenna back up into the tree 
and it was laying on the ground.  Have to give W3FV the 'Good Ears' award 
for this one because he heard me with my 40 meter antenna laying on the 
ground :-)

Lots of new 2X3 callsigns again.  Seems like RTTY is catching on with the 
new hams.  Some of these guys are operationg pretty darn efficiently, too.

One thing I have been seeing is that in the exchange macro for CQ'ers, some 
of them send their exchange, then their own callsigns at the end of the 
macro.  I already know your call (at least I should), but sometimes when you 
call CQ, and I answer you, someone else is still calling you and I am not 
sure who you came back to,  Then if you put your call at the end of the 
macro, I have to wait until you send the exchange again and see just who it 
was you came back to.

If you put my call at the end of the macro instead of your's, then I will 
know who you came back to.

Thanks for the Q's and CU in the next one.
Tom W7WHY

TS-450SAT + SB-200 ~200 watts
FT-840

2 2l HB 20 meter monobander
40 meter inverted V
80 meter inverted V

N1MM Logger 7.8.11 + 2 RASCAL's