[RTTY] CQ WPX RTTY - KU8L

[Curt Nixon]

Glad to see a few others running simple antennas and low power. 

Don't really have any idea if my result is credible or not..

Would like to see a few more results from others using simple rigs..ie 
manually tuned.  I run a 40 year old Drake set-up with a single wire 
antenna.  Its not very good on 80 but works pretty well on 40 and up.  I 
need to get my beam/tower back up in the air and I would like to try a 
computer tuned radio.

I ran almost 100% S&P --I tried run-mode  a couple of times over the 
weekend but never seemed to get more than a couple of contacts 
sporadically that way..suspect that I wasn't very visible in the 
line-up.  Did have my best rate ever though running during the last hour 
or so of the contest and did 25/hr on 40M.  I committed to staying with 
the run mode and shortened the cq interval to almost no waiting between 
thinking that dead air was the culprit.  Also snuggled up just above a 
big signal thinking I might get heard as stations moved up the band.

I can look forward to station improvements of a computer tuned radio, 
some band mapping, and perhaps some spotting input--none of which I used.

Anywaay--lots of fun. looking forward to the next one.

Curt

CQ WW RTTY WPX Contest

Call: KU8L
Operator(s): KU8L
Station: KU8L

Class: SOAB LP
QTH: MI
Operating Time (hrs): 27

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Pts
-----------------
   80:   23   58
   40:  184  494
   20:  111  210
   15:   24  48/
   10:          
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Total:  342  810  Prefixes = 191  Total Score = 154,710

Club: 

Comments:

Single wire antenna:  New Carolina Windom 40 at 25ft
Manually tuned radio--no rig control ex. ptt


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