[RTTY] THANKS FOR ALL THE RTTY HELP FROM AN RTTY ROOKIE

[Susan King]

Ted,
Thanks for the QSO. Every QSO counts.

Hope to see you on the air again.

73, Susan K5DU

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 3:33 PM, K6XN <k6xn at att.net> wrote:

> Team
>
>
>
> I wanted to thank all of you for the RTTY information and recommendations
> and input you all share with each other and with we RTTY rookies and old
> farts (we know who we are) :-) .  I have learned a lot from you guys and
> gals from what is posted here and it has been very helpful to me. I have
> also  experienced great off reflector emails containing appreciated help
> and
> assistance when I have asked for it and I very much appreciate terrific
> operators like VQ9LA making a special effort to work us here on the West
> Coast long path using RTTY a few weeks ago.
>
>
>
> What a great group of people and what a great hobby.
>
>
>
> I am still celebrating the fact that everything actually worked perfectly
> for me for my first RTTY RU contest this last weekend thanks to your help
> and that of the NCCC. Thanks again and 73, Ted, K6XN, RTTY rookie
>
>
>
> ARRL RTTY Roundup
>
> Call: K6XN
> Operator(s): K6XN
> Station: K6XN
>
> Class: Single Op HP
> QTH: CALIFORNIA
> Operating Time (hrs): 6
>
> Summary:
>  Band  QSOs
> ------------
>   80:    3
>   40:    2
>   20:  267
>   15:
>   10:
> ------------
> Total:  272  State/Prov = 49  Countries = 19  Total Score = 18,496
>
> Club: Northern California Contest Club
>
> Comments:
>
> Ham radio RTTY is a new experience for me after 50 years + being an active
> ham
> radio operator and I am a rookie at RTTY. This was my first RTTY RU and a
> *lot*
> of fun. I did not use sophisticated equipment this time but a "mobile rig"
> Yaesu
> FT-857D with Collins mechanical filters, an old laptop and an antique Alpha
> amplifier and an antique KLM triband antenna (KT-34XA). Everything worked
> great! Lots of fun and I intend to substantially improve moving forward. I
> was
> only able to spend about 6 hours in this contest and I primarily operated
> on
> only the 20M band but I am hooked!!! :-) Thanks for all the fun and the
> QSOs
> guys and gals! I am still celebrating that everything actually worked :-)
> 73, Ted, K6XN
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