North American QSO Party, RTTY - July
Call: W5KFT
Operator(s): K5PI
Station: W5KFT
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: TX
Operating Time (hrs): 5
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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80:
40: 9 9
20: 250 47
15: 104 31
10: 12 8
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Total: 375 95 Total Score = 35,625
Club: Central Texas DX and Contest Club
Team: SWACC #1
Comments:
I don't do a lot of RTTY and I scrambled to get my computer set up. I ended up
starting 15 minutes late. Then my TS-850 would only send a carrier. Fixed the
FSK interface (bad transistor), but then the combination of MMTTY+N1MM+Win98
started crashing about every third QSO. It seems clear that I need more
computer horsepower (1.6 GHZ, 256 MB) and an officially supported OS (e.g.,
XP). :-) My K3 was running pretty hot, so I had to keep the power down to
about 65 watts, even with maximum fan. Apologies to my SWACC teammates but
after a few hours, I threw in the towel.
I made eight or ten trips to 10M and would work a couple of pretty loud guys,
but couldn't get a run going.
The best part was watching the Tampa Bay Rays beat up on the Yankees. :-)
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