[SCCC] WN6K - NAQP RTTY SOAB LP

[Bill Haddon]

Paul,  Didn't have that issue at N6ZFO in my 200+ contacts. .  you must
have hit a bad bunch.

The one (seen before) that irks me is the station that sends something
like:    599 JOHN IN CO     . .  one sees that it's Colorado  after
entering Indiana as the state and filing the QSO.  I'll try next time to
remember the qso and send him a note. .  probably an innocently made bad
operating practice.

My report from N6ZFO:
=====
Call: N6ZFO

Class: Single Op LP
QTH: CA
Operating Time (hrs): 5:00 hours

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
   80:    0     0
   40:    0     0
   20:   73    28
   15:   73    29
   10:   70    27
-------------------
Total:  216    84  Total Score = 18,144

Team: NCCC Team #3

Comments:

Limited to 5 hours because of astronomy event Sat night; could have ditched
out early, but instead spent the time until past 2300 teaching an 11 year
old girl how to operate our $14,000 telescope. You might wish she were
interested in radio. Our speaker for the evening, talking on  "Commercial
Space Travel" was a 21-year local fellow, whose knowledge of solar system
is probably best of anyone in our county.  Eduardo started with a
description of the Telstar 1 Satellite (remember that one .  1962 -- first
transatlantic live TV broadcast).  Three hours before his talk, Eduardo''s
family had to evacuate their Kelseyville home after wildfire broke out
nearby, ultimately reaching 60 acres.  Barbara rushed downstairs to relay
the Nixle report to me, so had to very quickly abandon the contest at 1630.

First excursion to 10 was to move KH6CJJ from 15m.  To my surprise, 2 Q's
made there with K7's in AZ . Sporadic E?  About an hour later another
excursion to the presumably dead band yielded another 65 QSO's all over the
country.

The near equality of Q's/mults on the three bands was entirely happenstance
-- it just came out that way.

73 Bill n6zfo






On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 2:34 PM, Paul <WN6K at cox.net> wrote:

>                     North American QSO Party, RTTY - July
>
> Call: WN6K
> Operator(s): WN6K
> Station: WN6K
>
> Class: Single Op LP
> QTH: Vista, CA
> Operating Time (hrs): 9:53
>
> Summary:
>  Band  QSOs  Mults
> -------------------
>    80:   26    11
>    40:   92    34
>    20:  134    38
>    15:  105    33
>    10:    0     0
> -------------------
> Total:  357   116  Total Score = 41,412
>
> Club: Southern California Contest Club
>
> Team: SCCC #1
>
> In Post contest review, I think that my weasel station did just fine. ONE
> Radio One OP.  (Everyone else in my class with an “X” in one of the other
> columns however did much better.
>
> Goal: Beat last year’s score – don’t compete against the kids – they have
> (-50+) years on you and when you fall as they zoom by, roll out of their
> way.
>
> A note on RTTY ‘etiquette’ for the newbies: PLEASE take the time before
> the contest to go off band or off line and observe what your message prints
> look like. For some of you, it looked like it was set on a Guttenberg Press
> by a First Day Apprentice – PAULCAPAULCA…. It would  make things smoother
> on both ends… too many of you thought I was not quick enough coming back
> because I was busy hand entering/erasing all the runons.
>
> WN6K, Paul
>
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