[SCCC] WN6K - NAQP RTTY SOAB LP
Dennis Younker NE6I
NE6I at cox.net
Sun Jul 22 21:28:03 EDT 2018
Agreed. And please try to be diplomatic when coaching others. Many are casual operators who are on to get some states during the contests. They may not have much if any experience in contesting. As you have undoubtedly read in various articles, a positive and fun experience can hook someone into contesting for life. You yourself probably experienced it when you got hooked.
It can definitely be frustrating to get involved with someone not familiar with the protocol during the heat of a contest but again, be diplomatic and positive in your coaching. Otherwise, you risk the possibility of turning someone off to contesting forever.
One of the better RTTY web sites out there in my opinion is AA5AU's rttycontesting.com It's a good place to send newcomers. Let's be encouraging in everything we do as Elmers and in our coaching.
73, Dennis NE6I
-----Original Message-----
From: SCCC <sccc-bounces at contesting.com> On Behalf Of Mark Schoonover
Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2018 5:59 PM
To: NA6MB Mike <na6mb.mike at gmail.com>
Cc: Paul <WN6K at cox.net>; sccc at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [SCCC] WN6K - NAQP RTTY SOAB LP
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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