To: | CTDXCC Reflector <ctdxcc@kkn.net>,"RTTY Reflector" <RTTY@contesting.com>, 3830@contesting.com |
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Subject: | [RTTY] NAQP RTTY KS5V Single Op LP |
From: | Ed Larose <ks5v@arrl.net> |
Date: | Sun, 29 Feb 2004 11:59:09 -0600 |
List-post: | <mailto:rtty@contesting.com> |
North American QSO Party, RTTYCall: KS5V Operator(s): KS5V Station: KS5V Class: Single Op LP QTH: Central Texas Operating Time (hrs): 9 Summary: Band QSOs Mults ------------------- 160: 80: 64 27 40: 126 42 20: 100 35 15: 26 19 10: ------------------- Total: 316 123 Total Score = 38,868 Club: Central Texas DX and Contest Club Team: Austin Powers #1 Comments: A few days before the contest, I installed a new sound card in the computer in addition to the one on the mother board. I had in mind SO2R operation in the future. Well, I didn't check out the system before the contest and quickly found out that I was getting no receive audio from the radio. Gee, it seemed so simple. Then after probably 15 minutes of tracing the wires and making sure they were all plugged in and being totally perplexed, I remembered that I had installed the new sound card. Plugged the right wire to the mic input of the sound card and voila, I was up and running and feeling pretty stupid. I know no one else would ever do anything like that! Mediocre score for a mediocre station but no complaints. I've got to improve my situation on 80 meters, a lot of far north stations that I printed fine could not hear me. The 80m antenna is an 80m loop 8ft above ground. The upper band antenna is a 2 el. 5 band delta loop 30ft above ground. Of course I always do these contest to just have a good time. Wish I could have been there for the full 10 hours and the first 3 hours instead of shutting down at 0600Z. Oh well, there's next year. See y'all then.
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