[RTTY] CQ-Contest SO2R

[Joseph Lutz]

Hi Jack,

   What say I go up into my loft and bring down one of my C64's - have the
AEA COM Pakratt 64 cartridge here on my desk.  Maybe we can start a
new category!!   I got 'bitten' by rtty while in Portugal - that is where I
also switched from paper logging - to pc [the C64] - since then it has
been all downhill!!  I, like you, compete against myself - and of course
with the age adding on, seeing if I can make it for the entire contest.
On a side note - I want to apologize to the RTTY group for my
terrible rtty operating these last 2 months.  I was off due to operation
and when I tried the first couple of contest I was doing it on my laptop
and I did not realize that I had [2] mmtty's on it and it had periods of
'doing it's on thing' - have switch back to the desktop and the last
test seemed to work like it should.  Hope to cu in the test - Good Luck
to all!.
73,
JOE W7LPF
Ex: W7ZQV/KG6 - W7LPF/DU2 - CT1DKG/CR7DKG - HB9IBA
MGR: 4L1DA

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jack West XP" <w7ld at theriver.com>
To: "Chris Plumblee" <chris.plumblee at gmail.com>; <rtty at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 16:11
Subject: Re: [RTTY] CQ-Contest SO2R


> Hi all,
>
> I got into RTTY contesting after a business trip and a personal visit to
> W1UBG  qth.
> He showed me his score printed in QST for the ARRL roundup.  He had a 
> smile
> from ear to ear.  He ran an Amiga computer, AFSK, 50 watts, and an atttic
> antenna.  It
> was a meger score.  He was proud that he was printed in QST.
>
> He said he didn't care about the competition.  He simply wanted to see his
> score
> printed in QST and he made an effort each year to BETTER his own score.
>
> I said to myself, "I can do that!" and I did, using my Commodore C-64 and
> MBA-TOR
> plugin and 50 watts.
>
> I am not that good of an operator and I certainly don't have a super 
> contest
> station.
> I, like W1UBG, (now SK),  am content to compete with myself.  I dream of
> someday
> trying SO2R.
>
> Now that QST does not print ALL the scores, only the big ones, I am
> considiering
> dropping my subscription to QST.  That was the end of my thriill in RTTY
> contests for me.
>
> Ham radio is a hobby and it is supposed to be FUN!
> RTTY is FUN!
> Contesting is supposed to FUN!
>
> Lets have FUN and not be so serious.
>
> 73
> de Jack / W7LD / "Lucky Dog"
>
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