[RTTY] Re the 10m RTTY contest

[Barry Murrell ZS2EZ]

Not when you are down at the bottom end of Africa!!!!  From here low power
is pure masochism - no fun at all.

This fact, plus faulty antennas, meant that I left 10m alone this past
Sunday. It is hard enough making oneself heard with high power (for us that
means 400W) when pretty much no-one actually beams in this direction. 100W
from here is an exercise in frustration, and I don't do frustration very
well!!

Looking forward to the Roundup - should have my antennas fixed by then
(after 3 months of almost constant buffeting by strong winds)

73 de BARRY MURRELL ZS2EZ
KF26ta - Port Elizabeth, South Africa
website : www.zs2ez.co.za 


-----Original Message-----
From: rtty-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:rtty-bounces at contesting.com] On
Behalf Of Gedking at aol.com
Sent: 06 December 2011 04:06 AM
To: aa5au at bellsouth.net; rtty at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Re the 10m RTTY contest

You can work the world with 100 wts on 10 Mtrs so high pwr don't make any  
sense on 10 mtrs.
I could say more but shut up for now.
ED K8OT
 
 
In a message dated 12/5/2011 7:02:37 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
aa5au at bellsouth.net writes:

It's OK  to run high power and submit a log as CHECKLOG.  I thought about 
doing it  myself since I knew I was going to be a CHECKLOG,
but decided against it  because high power on 10 meters kills the telephone 
part of my UVerse and the  wife would have killed me.  I
think running low power is more  challenging although running high power is 
probably more fun.

73, Don  AA5AU
http://www.aa5au.com
http://www.rttycontesting.com  

-----Original Message-----
From: rtty-bounces at contesting.com  [mailto:rtty-bounces at contesting.com] On 
Behalf Of Phil Cooper
Sent: Monday,  December 05, 2011 2:38 PM
To: 'RTTY Contesting'
Subject: [RTTY] Re the  10m RTTY contest

Hi all,

I've just seen the 3830 summary for  this contest, and I am a little 
puzzled.....
The rules clearly state (3.)  100 watts output maximum.

And yet, some have put themselves into the HP  category!
I am assuming they thought that as there is no QRP category, or  only ONE 
power level, they would use the HP section in the  3830
form?

But, having said that, I suspect that several stations  were using a bit 
more than 100 watts.
I heard several EU/AS stations that  were so loud they had copyable signals 
above and below their Tx frequency.  Maybe overdriven AFSK
can account for that as well, but these stations were  end-stopping on the 
meter, whereas most folk were S6 - S9.

Over the  past months, I have found it better to reduce output power, 
especially when  CQ'ing. In WAEDC and CQWW, I was down to around
50 or 60W out, and in this  one, I ran at about 70 watts, apart from 
calling the VP2 and the PJ2, for  which I pushed out the full
100!

Just my  thoughts.....................

73 all

Phil  GU0SUP





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