[SCCC] NE6I ARRL RTTY Roundup

[Greg De Hoogh]

I think you must have looked at the wrong info re the contest 
frequencies, Dennis. I saw some activity on .074, but didn't want to 
hassle with non-contesters, so I worked *only *on the contest 
frequencies. During peak times, 40 and 20 were nearly wall-to-wall on 
the waterfall with signals.

73, Greg N6PM

On 1/6/2019 4:55 PM, Dennis Younker NE6I wrote:
> Call: NE6I
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> Operator(s): NE6I
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> Station: NE6I
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> Class: Single Op LP
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> Summary:
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> Band  RTTY Qs  Dig Qs
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>     80:
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>     40:             9
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>     20:            37
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>     15:            11
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>     10:             3
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> Total:    0       60  State/Prov = 23  Countries = 1  Total Score = 1,440
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> Club: Southern California Contest Club
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> Comments:
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> All FT8 QSOs here (between watching NFL playoffs on TV). I wanted to try the
> mode out in a contest. I probably should have read up on and executed the
> N1MM+ / WSJT-X interface before the contest but didn't know one existed. The
> WSJT-X contest log has some polishing ahead in my opinion but did okay on
> this first official outing I thought. Also, either I didn't have WSJT-X
> configured to tell me about dupes or that doesn't exist yet. Not sure which.
> I did work a couple of dupes.
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> I checked the suggested FT8 contest freqs a few times on Saturday but saw
> nothing. Those freqs were full of RTTY, as I would expect. All FT8 contest
> activity that I saw was on the usual .074 frequencies. Contest and
> non-contest activity seemed to co-exist well enough on .074. I did get a few
> answers to CQs from non-contesters. Those had the wrong exchange of course,
> so I had to ignore them. Unlike CW and SSB, you can't coach them through the
> right exchange on FT8.
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> All in all, a good first outing on FT8 I thought.
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> Will FT8 in its present state ever beat the rate on RTTY? Probably not.
> However, during slow times on RTTY (or poor band conditions), FT8 provides a
> nice alternative place to work stations. Heck, I even picked up three QSOs
> on 10m late Sunday afternoon! And not locals! As well, I'm sure a whole new
> crop of hams got their first taste of contesting this weekend. THAT is never
> a bad thing.
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