There is Bob,
being too much in a rush to get some supper once I got home from the station
but still wanted to report the sore before digging into the pasta plate.
Not only did I clicked on the wrong power level on 3830 but I also misclicked
on the club name: Contest Group du Quebec and if you noticed the station had
'no operator' this time around ha ha. When I do it wrong I do it in great
style! When I realized the mistake I wrote a to the 3830 reflector for
correction but I know this never gets done anyways so... Sorry about the
mistake, I'll be more carefull the next time around.
I agree with Phil's comments but what can we do. If one feels the need to cheat
in contest well, I guess he's missing the best of the sport and especially the
reason for being part of it. Bottom line is did you guys have fun? I sure did!!
73,
Fabi va2up
http://sites.google.com/site/va2upcontesting/
> Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 14:57:11 -0600
> From: k0rc@citlink.net
> To: rtty@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [RTTY] Re the 10m RTTY contest
>
> There will be all kinds of explanations ("excuses') for that.
>
> 1) They didn't read the rules
> 2) It was a choice in their contest setup (QRP/LP/HP) and it defaulted to HP
> 3) They were active but won't send in a log
> 4) They will send in a Checklog
> 5) They wanted to see how it felt to be a "Top Gun" station, walking
> over all the other signals
> 6) "Life's too short for 100 Watts" mindset?
>
> Am I missing any??? :-)
>
> This was an interesting contest for RTTY, with 10 meters only. It forced
> everyone to stay on that band (obviously) and revealed peculiarities in
> propagation. Well, at least for me it did. I enjoyed the contest but
> could not devote 100% effort this time. It was amazing to see all the
> signals up into the "nose bleed" frequencies!
>
> BTW, if anyone wants to run their log through one of my Log Analyzers,
> you can download the latest ARRL RU analyzer and import your log into
> that version. Here's the link to the download page: *
>
> http://tinyurl.com/7xjxypc*
>
> 73 de Bob - KØRC in MN
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> On 12/5/2011 2:38 PM, Phil Cooper wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've just seen the 3830 summary for this contest, and I am a little
> > puzzled.....
> > The rules clearly state (3.) 100 watts output maximum.
> >
> > And yet, some have put themselves into the HP category!
> > I am assuming they thought that as there is no QRP category, or only ONE
> > power level, they would use the HP section in the 3830 form?
> >
> > But, having said that, I suspect that several stations were using a bit more
> > than 100 watts.
> > I heard several EU/AS stations that were so loud they had copyable signals
> > above and below their Tx frequency. Maybe overdriven AFSK can account for
> > that as well, but these stations were end-stopping on the meter, whereas
> > most folk were S6 - S9.
> >
> > Over the past months, I have found it better to reduce output power,
> > especially when CQ'ing. In WAEDC and CQWW, I was down to around 50 or 60W
> > out, and in this one, I ran at about 70 watts, apart from calling the VP2
> > and the PJ2, for which I pushed out the full 100!
> >
> > Just my thoughts.....................
> >
> > 73 all
> >
> > Phil GU0SUP
> >
> >
> >
> >
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