[RTTY] What does it take to finish in the top 10?

[Steve AI9T]

Most important thing it takes to finish in the top 10 is to stay in the 
chair. If you don't stay in the chair you'll never finish in the top 10.

-- 
73

Steve AI9T

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On 2/26/2012 12:43 PM, Al Kozakiewicz wrote:
> I'm curious about the operating techniques part of RTTY contesting.
>
> Forget, for a moment, about the DX contests where the station QTH and antennas can be a major contributor to score. The just ended NAQP is kind of a great leveler - low power, $20,000 antenna systems are not a tremendous advantage and there aren't too many rare multipliers.  I looked at Don AA5AU's QTH on Google satellite and it doesn't look like a world class contest station.  A decent tower on a suburban lot - well within the resource limitations of many hams.
>
> I put an honest 9 h0our effort in.  It would have been 10 except that it snowed here for the first time this winter and my planned 2 hour break for dinner out with my wife turned into 3.  But, in my case, I doubt the extra hour would have made a huge difference.  I had a total of 429 QSO's and my best one hour rate was 69.
>
> I did learn this time to be more aggressive in switching from run to S&P when the running QSO rate slowed down.
>
> But what I really want to know is how many of the contesters who score north of 500 QSO's are running SO2R?  When I consolidate my 2 QTH's this year, I will build SO2R capability, but I need to know how much is dependent on my ability and operating techniques and not station capabilities?
>
> Al
> AB2ZY
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