North American QSO Party, RTTY
Call: VA7IRL
Operator(s): VA7IRL
Station: VA7IRL
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: Richmond, BC
Operating Time (hrs): 7.25
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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80:
40:
20:
15:
10:
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Total: 125 34 Total Score = 4,250
Club:
Team:
Comments:
This proved to be a bit of a slog - I have an infuriating and
intermittent S7-S9
noise problem at my QTH that seems to be connected to a switch in my
chair. It
started about 5 minutes after my lunch break and quit about half an
hour before
supper, pretty much wiping out the entire afternoon. Once I came back
to it in
the evening, 40 and 80 were noisy and quiet at the same time. if you
know what I
mean.
Still, contesting beats not contesting, and it was a great
opportunity to pilot
an all-Mac OS X setup, using the peerless (and free!) cocoaModem RTTY
program
with the equally peerless MacLoggerDX logging program. There were a
couple of
fat-finger moments early on (apologies in particular to WB9Z who
worked me twice
in 10 minutes - and kudos to him for blithely answering the second
time!), but I
quickly established a rhythm. I will be attempting a phone contest next,
followed by CW, once I can get the keying interface figured out.
Thanks for the QSOs - logs will be uploaded to LOTW and eQSL once the
contest
log entry deadline has passed.
See you again soon!
UE ;-)
VA7IRL
TS-940S/AT
Cushcraft R7
Homebrew 40m and 80m cloud-warmers
cocoaModem
MacLoggerDX
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