[UK-CONTEST] ARRL Contests

[Steve Knowles]

Hi Chris

Suggestion:
Even when running, turn AFC etc off.  Use Clarifier (IRT) to tune in callers 
who are a bit off channel.  This ensures you stay on your chosen transmit 
frequency and don't find yourself drifting up the band!  AFC / NET don't 
care who you QRM !!

Hope to CU this weekend.

If not, please look for GB5CC in BERU (maximum effort from G3WRR and myself 
from chez G3UFY)

Vy 73

Steve


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Tran ZL1CT" <zl1ct1 at gm7v.com>
To: <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 11:50 PM
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] ARRL Contests


> Hello UK-contesters
>
> If you are fairly new to contesting, now is the time to try some
> international contests if you have enjoyed the CC and AFS events - coming 
> up
> are the ARRL contests, which are easy and enjoyable to participate in. You
> work U.S. and VE stations only.
>
> ARRL CW - 21/22nd Feb - 48 hrs - they send 599+state/province e.g. 599NY -
> you send
> 599+power as fast as possible e.g. 5nn1tt
>
> ARRL SSB - 7/8th Mar - 48 hrs - they send 59+state, you send 59100 or
> whatever as fast as possible.
>
>
> ---------------RYRYRYRYRY----------------
> If you are on RTTY, please work us at ZM4A in the CQ WPX RTTY contest this
> coming weekend.
>
> I'm not a RTTY op, so it took me a while to realise that when S&P, using
> true FSK rather than AFSK, AFC and NET have to be 'off' and you have to
> accurately tune in the station you are going to call. In 'Run' mode we can
> put AFC on, but not when S&P. These are obvious statements to RTTY ops of
> course, but it took us some time to realise why other stations were not
> replying (apart from ZM4A being too weak, hi)
>
> Some software (e.g.Logger32) can move the TX frequency (via the CAT
> control) when using FSK, but we can't seem to get N1MM (not my favourite
> contest logger) to do this - the help file seems to indicate that it 
> should
> be able to control the TX frequency ?   9 out of 10 RTTY ops are probably
> using AFSK via the Mic socket so this is not relevant to them.
>
> 73
> Chris
> ZL1CT/GM3WOJ    www.zk2v.com
>
>
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