[SCCC] WN6K - NAQP RTTY SOAB LP

[Mark Schoonover]

Sounds like a noncontester who just jumped in because it looked like fun.
Might be a good opportunity to connect with them and explain how RTTY
contesting is done.

On Sun, Jul 22, 2018, 16:47 NA6MB Mike <na6mb.mike at gmail.com> wrote:

> How about:
> ZF1A ZF1A ZF1A THIS IS WA3XXX WA3XXX WA3XXX WA3XXX WA3XXX PSE K
> Me - (My exchange)
> YOU ARE 599 IN LYNCHBERG LYNCHBERG WA3XXX WA3XXX PSE K
> Me - QTH? NAME? ZF1A
> ZF1A ZF1A QTH IS LYNCHBERG TN LYNCHBERG TN
> RADIO: FTX SOMTHING
> ANTENNA: LONG WIRE AT AT 35 FEET
> ZF1A ZF1A WA3XXX WA3XXX PSE K
> Me - NAME? ZF1A
> ZF1A ZF1A NAME IS JEFF JEFF JEFF QSL? PSE K
> Me - WA3XXX TU QRZ?
>
> Mike
> ZF2NA /  NA6MB
>
>
>
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On Jul 22, 2018, at 5:22 PM, Bill Haddon <haddon.bill at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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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