[RTTY] AA5VU RTTY is contagious
Jeff Rinehart
jmrinehart at yahoo.com
Mon Oct 17 14:29:04 EDT 2016
AA5VU - Careful - RTTY is contagious and habit forming - you might even become dependent, needing a "fix" occasionally! I have enjoyed NPOTA too. Glad you gave contesting a Go. See you on the radio.
de w4pjw
Jeffrey M. Rinehart W4PJW
e-mail: W4PJW at arrl.net
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Today's Topics:
1. MY JARTS WW RTTY KI8W Effort. (Thom)
2. Re: New amplifier announced (James Wolf)
3. Re: New amplifier announced (Bill Turner)
4. JARTS 2016 de YL/OZ9GA (Torben Kahr)
5. W4AAW in JARTS (w4aaw at aol.com)
6. fldigi Contesting Setup Tip (Richard Kriss)
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 03:19:50 +0000
From: Thom <ki8w at ki8w.com>
To: rtty at contesting.com
Subject: [RTTY] MY JARTS WW RTTY KI8W Effort.
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JARTS WW RTTY Contest
Call: KI8W
Operator(s): KI8W
Station: KI8W
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: MI
Operating Time (hrs): 7
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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80: 0 0
40: 45 16
20: 76 20
15: 11 3
10: 0 0
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Total: 132 39 Total Score = 11,382
Club: Grand Rapids Amateur Radio Association
Antennas: Multi-Band Dipole at 30 feet.
Comments:
First contest of any kind in 12 years.
Far too many distractions at home for a serious effort. The wife, dog,
phone ringing, people banging on the front door (no, not to complain
about my radio operations) and people stopping by. Soccer, Baseball and
Football games on the tele. ETC. Overall though I had a lot of fun.
Thanks all.
Things that need to be upgraded or fixed...
1. Baluns on all the dipoles.
2. Install some sort of vertical.
3. A new interface that will do True FSK. AFSK really sucks.
4. TCXO and Crystal Filters in the radio. Audio DSP really really sucks.
5. A different location to conduct operations. Maybe a portable op
somewhere but that could be tough this winter.
Of course all this has to be done on a very limited ham radio budget.
Thanks
73
Thom KI8W
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2016 23:45:58 -0400
From: "James Wolf" <jbwolf at comcast.net>
To: <rtty at contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [RTTY] New amplifier announced
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I am interested. What I would like to see in a SS amp is:
- Antenna Tuner - this is a deal breaker.
- Able to switch bands following the transceiver at full output. I can do
this with the Alpha 87a.
- Quiet operation. This means fans and T/R switching with QSK. If it is on
par with my Alpha 87a, that will suffice.
- Real-time monitoring of critical parameters.
- Temperature monitoring readout for the transistors. Consistently running
them too hot *will* shorten their life. See below ICAS service.
- Linear to legal output at 2:1 VSWR. This requires lots of headroom.
- Adequate fault protection. In other words, Bullet Proof operation.
NOTE: It says 100% duty cycle, but then specifies 1500W ICAS (Intermittent
Commercial and Amateur Service), not CCS (Continuous Commercial Service).
So is it or is it not?
Jim - KR9U
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 03:57:51 +0000
From: Bill Turner <dezrat at outlook.com>
To: RTTY Reflector <rtty at contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [RTTY] New amplifier announced
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On Sun, 16 Oct 2016 23:45:58 -0400, you wrote:
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>NOTE: It says 100% duty cycle, but then specifies 1500W ICAS (Intermittent
>Commercial and Amateur Service), not CCS (Continuous Commercial Service).
>So is it or is it not?
>
>Jim - KR9U
REPLY:
I wondered about that too. 100% duty cycle should mean just that, with
no qualifiers such as ICAS. I will get that clarified before I buy
one.
73, Bill W6WRT
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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 09:19:15 +0200
From: Torben Kahr <oz9ga at kahrius.dk>
To: rtty at contesting.com
Subject: [RTTY] JARTS 2016 de YL/OZ9GA
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JARTS WW RTTY Contest
Call: YL/OZ9GA
Operator(s): OZ9GA
Station: YL/OZ9GA
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: KO37
Operating Time (hrs): 19
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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80: 142 32
40: 168 36
20: 190 43
15: 0 0
10: 0 0
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Total: 500 111 Total Score = 114,290
Club: DL-DX RTTY Contest Group
Comments:
RTTY Radio HF-station YL/OZ9GA
My summer QTH in Latvia.
RX/TK IC 7300
Interface Microham Microkeyer II
MSI Laptop
WriteLog 11.29 with Mtty
Wire dipole for 20, 40 and 80 Meter Bands
No antennas for 15 and 10 meter.
All Q?s are on LOTW
Tnx fer the contacts.
First time using the new IC 7300 for contesting. Worked great with 70 Watt
power
Fantastic band scope.
Sorry had only time for 19 ours.
73 de OZ9GA
Torben Kahr
oz9ga at kahrius.dk <mailto:oz9ga at kahrius.dk>
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Message: 5
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 06:11:56 -0400
From: w4aaw at aol.com
To: rtty at contesting.com
Subject: [RTTY] W4AAW in JARTS
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JARTS WW RTTY Contest
Call: W4AAW
Operator(s): MM0LID AA5AU W4AAW N1MGO K4XD WS7I W6IHG ND3D W4TMO
Station: W4AAW
Class: MOMT (M/M) HP
QTH: VA-USA
Operating Time (hrs): 48
Remote Operation
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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80: 127 27
40: 456 71
20: 903 99
15: 428 87
10: 65 28
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Total: 1979 312 Total Score = 1,580,904
Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club
Comments:
What a roller-coaster of a contest! Worse than horrid conditions much of the
time. Then, bands would open, sometimes brilliantly, and produce tremendous
results.
Only W4AAW operated from the shack. Of the 1,979 contacts made, 1,523 of them (77%)
were made by remote operators in the following locations:
MM0LID Scotland
WS7I Washington State
AA5AU Louisiana
ND3D Maryland
W6IHG Virginia
N1MGO Massachusetts
K4XD North Carolina
W4TMO North Carolina
The Internet connection was solid for the whole 48 hours.
Don-AA5AU operated several hours as SO2R from Louisiana.
Hats off for Scott-MM0LID who made a whopping 678 QSOs by himself, which is 34%
of the total Qs. Pretty astounding!
(The record for MOMT operation in JARTS from North America was set by NK7U with
1,295,604 with 1,638 Qs. We achieved the claimed score and QSO totals shown in
the boxes above and hope we may have set a new record score in this category.)
The whole team wishes to thank all those we contacted for their patience. Copy
at both ends was, at times, extremely difficult.
Thanks to the contest sponsors for this wonderful mainstay in RadioSport.
We look forward to working you in all the major RTTY, SSB and CW contests.
TeamW4AAW
see www.remotecontesting.com
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Message: 6
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 06:04:40 -0500
From: Richard Kriss <aa5vu at att.net>
To: fldigi list <linuxham at yahoogroups.com>, RTTY Reflector
<rtty at contesting.com>, CTDXCC List List <ctdxcc at kkn.net>
Subject: [RTTY] fldigi Contesting Setup Tip
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I have been a chaser in the ARRL's 2016 NPOTA event and have not been in many contests until this weekend where I played around in the JARTS WW RTTY Contest. I used the Kenwood TS-590SG, macOS 10.12 (Sierra) with fldigi-3.23.15 and the setup worked great for the first 50 or so QSOs on Saturday. When I restarted the contest on Sunday, it was pretty obvious the fldigi dupe checker was not working correct as I got the dreaded WORKED B4 response.
After several frustrating resets, I finally figured out that I had checked the box in the fldigi Contest configuration panel for Time span over x minutes. I UNCHECKED "Time span over? option, saved the configuration and the dupe checker started working normal again.
Ed, W3NR, explained the Time Span is usually used in UHF/VHF contests where a Rover is involved. You have to wait x amount of time before you can work him again. I have no idea when or why I checked and saved the Time Span option but unchecking and saving the setting fixed the dupe checker for HF contests.
It was fun to make a few QSOs in the JARTS WW RTTY Contest. The JARTS contest exchange is RST and AGE and when you pull the fldigi Cabrillo Report, you will know why this is an OM?s hobby. The youngest I worked was 15 and the oldest was 90 but he mean seemed to about 71.
JARTS was fun and fldigi made it enjoyable!
73 Dick AA5VU
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> JARTS WW RTTY Contest <http://www.3830scores.com/listeditions.php?arg=ptcccOz1gmyvb> 2016 Oct 15 Claimed Score <http://www.3830scores.com/editionscores.php?arg=ptcccOz1gmyvb>
> Call: AA5VU <http://www.3830scores.com/findcall.php?call=AA5VU>
> Operator(s): AA5VU <http://www.3830scores.com/findcall.php?call=AA5VU>
> Station: AA5VU
>
> Class: Single Op LP
> QTH: STX
> Operating Time (hrs): 12
> Location: USA
>
> Summary: Compare Scores <http://www.3830scores.com/comparescores.php?arg=ptcccOz1gmyvb&call=AA5VU>
> Band QSOs Mults
> 80:
> 40: 36 20
> 20: 72 28
> 15:
> 10:
> Total: 108 48 Total Score 11,376
>
> Club: Central Texas DX and Contest Club
>
> Comments: [email] <mailto:aa5vu%40arrl.new> 2016-10-16 12:17:52
> 108 QSO's = 237 QSO Points x 48 Multi = 11376 Total
>
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