JARTS WW RTTY Contest
Call: K3FIV
Operator(s): K3FIV
Station: K3FIV
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: CA CM88eu
Operating Time (hrs):
Summary:
Band QSOs Pts Mults
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80: 2 4 2
40: 19 39 13
20: 57 157 29
15: 104 267 36
10: 85 236 22
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Total: 267 703 102 Total Score = 71,706
Club: Northern California Contest Club
Comments:
Rig: Flex-3000, N1MM, MMTTY
Ant: 135 foot Carolina Windom at 35 feet, on all bands
Loc: CM88eu, about a kilometer from the Pacific Ocean.
Sure is nice to have sunspots. Congratulations to the EU stations who could
pull out my 100W-and-a-dipole signal - especially the ones who answered my CQs!
It was refreshing to be able to run for a change, and even to have a call from
EU immediately followed by a call from ZL. Amazing propagation.
With so many RTTY signals around, I used the opportunity as a training exercise
on how to better use the MMTTY and N1MM software with the Flex-3000. There's a
*lot* of settings in all that software. Played around with various profiles,
and discovered that they really do make a difference in copying DX, e.g., using
a "fluttered signal" profile for EU signals coming over the pole. I also
experimented with MMTTY and N1MM settings for TX. Used a 300Hz filter on both
RX and TX, to try to send out a clean signal. It must all have helped since I
got only a few requests for fills, and had little trouble copying anybody.
As the contest ended, I finally got macros set up the way I liked. This time,
I even remembered to save my macro files, so I don't have to invent everything
again in the next RTTY contest.
The goal for next time is to remember that I saved the settings from this time,
and also to remember where I saved them.
Great way to spend some time over a fall weekend.
73,
/Jack de K3FIV
Point Arena, CA
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