CQ/NRJ WPX RTTYContest
N1NB SINGLE-OP ALL LOW
Band QSO Pts Mult
80M 32 84 13
40M 122 430 74
20M 66 119 40
15M 197 452 104
10M 83 186 36
Total 500 1271 267
Claimed Score = 339357
Had great expectations of reaching a new personal level in this one. To
that end, instead of setting up in the hours just before the 'test: I setup
the buffers; got DxTelnet-Writelog working; configured filters and
localization on new DX cluster by Tuesday! For a procrastinator, this is
nothing short of amazing.
However, it was not to be. For one, it snowed enough Thursday& Friday to
necessitate shovelling the drive (and the neighbors) on Friday. So I ran
out of gas too early Friday night, missing a lot of low band opportunity.
Further, my back mentioned in no uncertain terms that it was not going to
sit in the chair in the shack for extended times periods. So I ended up
with less operating time than last year and somewhat lower numbers, but at
least the rate was slightly better than last year. Due partly to a really
nice run at the bitter end on 40M with QSO #500 coming at 23:59.
In any case a lot of fun. Many things seem to indicate a lot of newcomers
in RTTY contesting which is great. The frequencies reported in DX spots
remains problematic as always, but I did look twice when one station posted
2 spots at the same time and same exact frequency - well they were both
there about 500Hz apart.
Running Writelog with one radio in dual receive mode, MMTTY 1.63 seems to
be definitely outperforming my DXP38 by a small but noticeable margin.
Since I'm still using the DXP38 for FSK tranmit, I haven't encountered any
of the reported problems with MMTTY. Once they are resolved I would plan to
put MMTTY into xmit and the DXP38 into receive only as then I can grab
calls etc from the MMTTY window.
73
Steve Holton N1NB
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