[RTTY] Dupes how to handle

Mon Feb 13 15:43:22 PST 2012

I will have a look at Writelog, I use Ham radio deluxe for my day to day logging but that soon is to be a commerical sw at a cost so I want to try the other options available to me.

I used to use logger 32 but found HRD better, I reinstalled Logger32 on Friday to see what the newer version was like and it killed N1MM on me I had to go to a restore point on my PC to get N1MM to work again so Logger32 is now in the bin. there was some panic in the shack a few hours before the contest I can tell you.

I also decided to move the Rig after an hour of the contest at 1am on Saturday morning, I lost over an hour making new patch cables and amp keying cables but it was alot more comfortable to use the rig. nothing like last minute prep.

Thanks
Trevor
EI2GLB

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From: Alejandro V. XE1EE <xe1ee at telmexmail.com>
To: trevor dunne <trevor_dunne at yahoo.com>; RTTY-reflektorn <rtty at contesting.com> 
Sent: Monday, 13 February 2012, 23:29
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Dupes how to handle

Yes i saw your pileup and it was huge, there was another EI station calling also and don't know why he had less clients.

FSK is better than AFSK, still you can use autotune function of you're running mmtty + N1MM logger. I have a ProIII and it works just like yours, with a very narrow filter and a good performance on a crowded frequency.

If you have the chance, try Writelog, i'ts a great software,  I knew it thanks to XE2K, once I started using it, I quit using MixW and N1MM, as well as AFSK is no longer in my shack hi. It works great as a everyday program to work/log Dxpeds and so on.

Looking forward to work you soon, 73!

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From: "trevor dunne" <trevor_dunne at yahoo.com>
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 5:08 PM
To: "Alejandro V. XE1EE" <xe1ee at telmexmail.com>; "RTTY-reflektorn" <rtty at contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Dupes how to handle

> Sorry I missed you Alejandro, I had some very big pile ups on 15m, It made me feel like a DX station at times. I struggle to get a decode when there is lots of stations calling, I guess everyone does,
> 
> Two items that bugged me during the contest when I was runnig were
> 
> 1. Stations calling very much off my freq, I use a Icom 756 pro2 in FSK/RTTY mode, with the filter at 250hz and some stations were over 100hz off from me. It was a constant job adjusting the RIT to tune in some stations.
> 
> 2. When 2 or 3 stations call, I would stack there calls in N1MM so that once I finished with the 1st I would go WXXX TU NOW KXXX ur 599 XXXX XXXX and so on, but the amount of times the 2nd station didn't respond, I guess EI2 was not rare enough to hang around 20 seconds for,
> 
> I had no problems with QRM as the Filters are very sharp on the Pro. Have to say that N1MM is a great tool this was my 2nd big contest with it and I have still a lot to learn but I can't see myself ever trying to do ASFK again.
> 
> Thanks
> Trevor
> EI2GLB
> 
> 
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> From: Alejandro V. XE1EE <xe1ee at telmexmail.com>
> To: trevor dunne <trevor_dunne at yahoo.com>; RTTY-reflektorn <rtty at contesting.com>
> Sent: Monday, 13 February 2012, 22:33
> Subject: Re: [RTTY] Dupes how to handle
> 
> Hello Trevor
> 
> Well, I have a macro who checks the call against the current contest log, if it is a dupe sends Call QSO B4 XE1EE QRZ, if not just sends the serial number and I keep going, I never work dupes.
> 
> By the way..  you where here 5/9 (on 15 meters) and never heard me :( and I was running 300 watts.
> 
> Here's the macro I use (on Writelog)
> 
> %R%C %BQSO B4%RXE1EE QRZ%E%B 599 %N3 %N3%E
> 
> 73!
> 
> *********************
> XE1EE
> Alejandro Valdez O.
> DXCC RTTY, SSB & CW
> Mixed, 10, 15, 20 & 40
> WAS, TPA & WAC
> www.dxxe.org
> www.qsl.net/xe1ee
> Twiter: @xe1ee
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> From: "trevor dunne" <trevor_dunne at yahoo.com>
> Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2012 10:02 AM
> To: "RTTY-reflektorn" <rtty at contesting.com>
> Subject: [RTTY] Dupes how to handle
> 
>> Whats the correct procedure to handle dupe in any contest but mainly WPX RTTY
>> 
>> I have a few QSO's that I thought were good but the other station called me again and when I said QSO B4, I wasn't in there log,
>> 
>> Do I just delete the first bad QSO and log the 2nd one ???
>> 
>> How does that affect my serial number count as there will be missing QSO's in the log ???
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Trevor
>> EI2GLB
>> 
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