[SCCC] SCCC Digest, Vol 37, Issue 12
Art
k6xt at arrl.net
Mon Jan 16 18:14:29 EST 2006
Hey Art been using one of those Byterunner usb to com's for a couple
years. Works really well for anything but rtty, due to the chip not
understanding the 5 level code. Other than that....
The past 2 weekends were my maiden voyage with N1MM as well. CW via
LPT1, RTTY/PTT via the PC's com1. Rigs controlled via the 2-port
byterunner. N1MM ran it all just fine. I know there are guys using these
expensive interfaces from Microham and other, I don't have one. Built my
own cables. Haven't quite figured out what the interface attraction is,
especially in view of the miles per buck. Maybe it has something to do
with that analog mode that I don't use.
73, Art
www.k6xt.com
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Today's Topics:
1. NAQP CW (Art W6KY)
2. N6AA NAQP CW (Richard J. Norton)
3. NAQP CW: K1USC (Tony Ruiz)
4. NAQP CW K6NR (Dana Roode)
5. NAQP Score (John Orton)
6. NAQP CW WN6K Single Op LP (Paul Dorey)
7. Re: NAQP CW: K1USC (Glenn Rattmann)
8. NK6A-NAQP (NK6A-Don Minkoff)
9. NAQP CW (Cleaned Up) (Art W6KY)
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 09:30:45 -0800 (PST)
From: Art W6KY <w6ky at yahoo.com>
Subject: [SCCC] NAQP CW
To: SCCC Reflector <sccc at contesting.com>
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NAQPCW Score Summary Sheet
Start Date : 2006-01-14
CallSign Used : W6KY
Operator(s) : W6KY
Band : ALL
Power : LOW
Mode : CW
Default Exchange : ART CA
Gridsquare : DM13
Name : Art Wallace
Country : USA
ARRL Section : SDG
Club/Team : Southern California Contest Club Team #3
Software: N1MM Logger V5.7.2
Band QSOs Pts Sec
3.5 79 79 27
7 127 126 37
14 107 107 40
21 63 63 24
28 1 1 1
Total 377 376 129
Score : 48,504
Rig : IC-756PROII
Antennas : GAP Ground Mt Vertical
Soapbox : I didn't have a lot of time. Working weekends.
Used N1MM for the first time. Wow! Led me around the bands by
the nose. 1 10 meter contact (neighbor). Was working the East
Coast on 40 at 4pm. CU fer SSB (if I can find my Heil)...73
I have observed all competition rules as well as all regulations
established for amateur radio in my country. My report is
correct and true to the best of my knowledge. I agree to be
bound by the decisions of the Contest Committee.
Date : 2006-01-14 Signature : Art Wallace
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 09:43:18 -0800
From: "Richard J. Norton" <richardjnorton at gmail.com>
Subject: [SCCC] N6AA NAQP CW
To: SCCC <sccc at contesting.com>
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Get home after drive from from Monterey. Do some stuff.
Remember existence of NAQP. Go to shack. Turn on rig and computer. Find
lots of activity on 40.
Call CQ around 7060. K3WI answers. Enter K3W into computer. It won't
take the I. Reboot. Finish QSO by hand, and write info on scratch sheet.
Reboot screen says, "Hard drive failure."
Phone rings. Talk to W6ROD for a while. Get dressed and go to Long Beach
Radio Club dinner. Back after NAQP is over.
After computer warms up, hard drive works OK.
N6AA
Score 1
QSOs 1
Mults 1
Will try to improve next time.
73,
Dick
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 10:52:47 -0800
From: "Tony Ruiz" <usctony at charter.net>
Subject: [SCCC] NAQP CW: K1USC
To: "SCCC" <sccc at contesting.com>
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Station: K1USC
OP: Tony Ruiz
QTH: Alta Loma, CA., San Bernardino County, DM14
Operation time: 10 Hours
Yaesu 857D, 100 wts., AT100Pro autotuner, G5RV inverted-V dipole antenna
25ft up.
NA QSO Party - CW:
Band QSO's
10M 2
15M 29
20M 83
40M 42
80M 59
Total QSO's: 215
Multipliers: 102
Total Score: 21,930
I must admit I was really looking forward to this event. What made it
interesting was having the teams & combining our collective scores.
Seeing five different SCCC teams brought out a little of the competitive
side. I wanted to do as well as possible so I can post a good score to
help my team, SCCC # 4. Knowing some of the members on the other teams
also motivated me to keep plugging away because you just gotta have a
higher score than them. hi hi.
Truthfully, I knew my tally would get blown out of the water by most of
the club members but, I just wanted to have a respectable score and
certainly try to top my prior scores. Last January a made about 50 SSB
QSO's. In the Fall NAQP I made about 100 CW QSO's. This time around, my
personal goal was to reach 200 QSO's. That would be an all time high for
any type of contest I've entered. I'm glad I made that mark and did it
in a 10 hour contest.
I heard a good majority of you guys out there. I made:
4 QSO's with KQ6ES
3 QSO'S with: W6SJ
2 QSO's with: AA6PW, WN6K, N6HC & W6KK
1 QSO with: W6YI, K6LL, K6LA, K6NR, K6XT, K6EY
It was nice to help earn us some points. Funny thing is, the most Q's
were with member's of my own team.
Good timing, I guess. : )
When making contacts, my biggest slow down is being able to copy the CW
quickly on the first shot. While S&P'ing I will usually have to listen
once or twice before I catch the call & name. It truly is a skill and
an art that I will have to continue to work at before It becomes more
natural. My QSO rate was about 18-25 an hour as it does take a little
bit of time to understand their exchange. Overall I see myself improving
with the highest rate ever for a contest.
One thing I am glad I did was calling "CQ". I was actually nervous for
the first few responses as my biggest worry was being able to understand
the call, name & state when others answered back. Thankfully, it went
well. No pile-ups, not too crowded. I set my speed to about 17 WPM and
called out. Folks QRS'ed and repeated for me as needed. I did a little
CQ'ing on most of the bands. That's how I got the 10 Meter contacts.
Probably 10% of my contacts were from calling CQ. It was a good
experience as I'll want to try a multi-op one of these days. I figure
the contest stations are the ones using doing most of the CQ'ing so I
better try my hand at it more and more. This was a good contest to try
it as the playing field was pretty level.
A fun time was had.
Tony, K1USC
Alta Loma, CA
dit dit
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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 10:56:43 -0800
From: Dana Roode <K6NR at ARRL.net>
Subject: [SCCC] NAQP CW K6NR
To: SCCC Reflector <sccc at contesting.com>
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North American QSO Party, CW
Call: K6NR
Operator(s): K6NR
Station: K6NR
Class: Single Op LP
QTH:
Operating Time (hrs): 7.5
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
-------------------
160: 28 16
80: 68 30
40: 83 32
20: 139 45
15: 127 30
10: 0 0
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Total: 445 153 Total Score = 68,095
Club: Southern California Contest Club
Team: SCCC #3
Comments:
Worked using my Phelan (Ca) station remotely from Irvine (Ca) using
N4PY, Writelog, TRX-manager and other control software. Almost like
being there -
except when local computer crashed in the middle of a run. Sigh. Dana
Posted using 3830 Score Submittal Forms at:
http://www.hornucopia.com/3830score/
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Message: 5
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 19:19:06 +0000
From: John Orton <wa6bob at arrl.net>
Subject: [SCCC] NAQP Score
To: sccc <SCCC at contesting.com>
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North American QSO Party, CW
Call: WA6BOB
Operator(s): WA6BOB
Station: WA6BOB
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: CA
Operating Time (hrs): 4
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
-------------------
160: 0 0
80: 0 0
40: 59 28
20: 92 37
15: 18 12
10: 0 0
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Total: 169 77 Total Score = 13,013
Club: Southern California Contest Club
Team: SCCC #3
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Message: 6
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 19:42:32 -0000
From: "Paul Dorey" <WN6K at cts.com>
Subject: [SCCC] NAQP CW WN6K Single Op LP
To: "SCCC" <sccc at contesting.com>
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I had (well for three weeks now )a nice cold so it was a chore getting
started. All in all, it worked out pretty much as I expected for the
time in the cycles we are in. Not doing SO2R is obviously a downside.
Perhaps we should make sure that all the 'top' assignees for teams are
so situated. SSB Next weekend so I hope the cold is gone by then.
WN6K
North American QSO Party, CW
Call: WN6K
Operator(s): WN6K
Station: WN6K
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: CA
Operating Time (hrs): 10
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
-------------------
160: 0 0
80: 98 28
40: 120 33
20: 160 41
15: 156 29
10: 1 1
-------------------
Total: 535 132 Total Score = 70,620
Club: Southern California Contest Club
Team: SCCC #2
Comments:
Posted using 3830 Score Submittal Forms at:
http://www.hornucopia.com/3830score/
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Message: 7
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 11:46:24 -0800
From: Glenn Rattmann <k6na at cts.com>
Subject: Re: [SCCC] NAQP CW: K1USC
To: "Tony Ruiz" <usctony at charter.net>
Cc: sccc at contesting.com
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At 10:52 AM 1/15/2006 -0800, you wrote:
>Station: K1USC
>OP: Tony Ruiz
>QTH: Alta Loma, CA., San Bernardino County, DM14
>Operation time: 10 Hours
>Yaesu 857D, 100 wts., AT100Pro autotuner, G5RV inverted-V dipole
>antenna 25ft up.
Tony,
Enjoyed reading all your comments, and glad to see you in there plugging
away with a relatively small station. As your CW improves you will
enjoy it more and more, so hang in there!!
Glenn K6NA
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Message: 8
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 11:59:27 -0800
From: NK6A-Don Minkoff <cowchip at comcast.net>
Subject: [SCCC] NK6A-NAQP
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North American QSO Party, CW
Call: NK6A
Operator(s): NK6A
Station: NK6A
Class: Single Op QRP
QTH: lax
Operating Time (hrs): 4
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
-------------------
160:
80:
40: 22 16
20: 75 33
15: 25 13
10:
-------------------
Total: 122 62 Total Score = 7,564
Club: Southern California Contest Club
Team:
Comments:
Operated only 4 plus hours using my K2 at 5W. Wasn't sure if I could
even be heard with the QRP power but conditions on 15 and 20 were good
and I was able to search and pounce my way through. Managed to call CQ
now and then and had people come back to me. I guess the Force 12C4
helps! 40 was another matter.
Worked a few and found it difficult.
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Message: 9
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 14:06:14 -0800 (PST)
From: Art W6KY <w6ky at yahoo.com>
Subject: [SCCC] NAQP CW (Cleaned Up)
To: SCCC Reflector <sccc at contesting.com>
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North American QSO Party, CW
Call: W6KY
Operator(s): W6KY
Station: W6KY
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: SDG
Operating Time (hrs): 6
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
-------------------
160: 0 0
80: 79 27
40: 127 37
20: 107 40
15: 63 24
10: 1 1
-------------------
Total: 377 129 Total Score = 48,504
Club: Southern California Contest Club
Team: SCCC #3
Comments:
Hate working (job) weekends so only had about 6 hours....Used N1MM for
the 1st
time. Great! Rig control, Telnet and CW all worked perfect with 2Gig XP
IBM
notebook. Used a USB to Serial converter which gave me 2 more high
speed (up to
230kb) serial ports. Made by Byte Runner and worked perfect. Not bad
for
$19.95...73, Art
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