"They wanted to see how it felt to be a "Top Gun" station, walking
over all the other signals"
Oh please!
Jim W7RY
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From: "Robert Chudek - K0RC" <k0rc@citlink.net>
Sent: Monday, December 05, 2011 12:57 PM
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
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>
>
> 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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