I thought I would do this in place of Ken, who is probably tired. Please post your WPX RTTY scores here.
73,
Pat, NG1G
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I thought I would do this in place of Ken, who is probably tired. Please post your WPX RTTY scores here.
73,
Pat, NG1G
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So despite a little storm damage and other personal business to attend to I managed to put in a little time from my home station. N1MM says 13:43 BIC time. I should add that I was SOABHP.
Band QSOs Pts WPX 7 126 460 63 14 154 337 116 21 177 330 114 28 29 61 17 Total 486 1188 310 Score: 368,28073,
Pat, NG1G
Pat – TNX, you beat me to it. Dealing with winter storm Nemo after-effects here. The blizzard and associated power outages I’m sure affected many CTRI ops ability to participate/be competitive in this year’s event. :^( Bill W1WBB
Greetings from Puerto Rico!
Good evening all:
Well the contest is over and other than three power outages totaling about 2h 15m everything went pretty well. The Preliminary RAW score is shown below. It probably wont change very much between now and when it is submitted.
Getting here an extra day earlier paid dividends during the contest since we didn’t spend time repairing equipment during the contest. Before the prelim time many many rotor controllers and one new rotor were repaired and for the first time in recent history, rotors on all towers worked and the controllers actually reflected the azimuth of the beam. It was wonderful!
We will be heading back on Tuesday and do not anticipate any travel problem. For now we are all pretty worn out and plan to try to get a good sleep tonight.
Take care…
73,
Ken K3IU
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NP3U CQ WPX RTTY 2013 Band QSOs Pts WPX 3.5 217 964 29 7 1055 5330 347 14 1042 2639 329 21 1245 3202 273 28 466 1107 40 Total 4025 13242 1018 Score : 13,480,356CQ-WW-WPX RTTY 2013 OPERATION FROM W1BYH
SOAB-TS-HIGH POWER
NORM W1BYH
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cc: n6erd@nullarrl.net
From: n6erd@nullarrl.net
Subject: RTTY WPX WU6CC(N6ERD) SOAB HP
CQ WW RTTY WPX Contest
Call: WU6CC
Operator(s): N6ERD
Station: W1AN
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: CT
Operating Time (hrs): 39.5
Summary:
Band QSOs
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80: 124
40: 689
20: 429
15: 599
10: 38
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Total: 1879 Prefixes = 730 Total Score = 4,365,400
Club: CT RI Contest Group
Comments:
My first time running this contest in a competitive station other than small S&P
efforts.
Scrambling as the Multi-op became a single op due to the storm. The version of
N1MM on the main computer hung when started so finally had to uninstall and
reinstall and was scrambling to get it going before the contest. Spent too
much time trying to set it for multi-op in case some ended up making it, should
have just focused on getting it going for single op.
Started 15 mins late and then took naps both nights for a total of 8 hours
off – might have rethought that if I had thought I would do this well – at
least and earlier start both days would have been in order.
Thanks to John, W1AN for suggesting I come Thursday night to beat the storm –
had a lot of fun – main issue was running on 15M and suddenly a number of
stations were calling me N1IBM – little did I know an N1 (likely too close for
me to hear) had set up shop on my frequency. Realized I may have worked a
number of people who instead logged me as N1IBM (they were responding to me),
meaning I have no idea which mults I lost, etc. – Stopped there, ate and
regrouped and had to find a new run frequency. I did notice later I had been
spotted twice, the second noting QRG with N1IBM. That wasn’t a long time but
it will affect my score depending on how many QSOs/Mults are affected. It
explains why one of my mults came back right away trying to get my number after
we’d worked – he must have realized that he needed me (WU6 – very rare) more
than the N1! From my view at the time we had just worked…
Other than that – A great learning experience – it’s a big difference having a
4 hour run with a rate over 80 QSOs/hour versus the leisurely S&P. In total 12
hours running at rates over 68 QSOs/hour! In kluding the station together I
didn’t have time to perfect the call stacking but late in the contest realized
I could do it using the delay between ESM enter and the message finishing…
Last issue was the rotor would not go past 100 degrees, meaning I had to work
EU off the skew of the tribander, not an issue on 15M as I could use the
stacked 5 Element 15s which were fixed on EU. Last few hours of the contest it
dawned on me I could move (moved, not SO2R) to the other station (as I had N1MM
networked) and use the tribander there with the working rotor.
The good news is I learned things by the end of the contest so I’ll do better
next time – usually I have John, W1AN to bail me out when things go wrong so it
was interesting fending for myself!
At the beginning of the contest power dropped in and out twice which is why I
operated with the K3 (where the 15M stack is AND the computer on a UPS). It
never went off permanently, but did mess with me for the first hour as it
happened twice – first time I went upstairs to see what was going on and John’s
wife gave me some candles just in case. Second time I just waited for it to
stabilize and got going again.
A lot of time spent asking for numbers the first night as 40 late and 80 were
pretty noisy, so getting any number was tough and often a different number
appeared every pass…
I look forward to doing it again – next time I’ll try to power through the full
48 hours, or choose better and shorter off times – I had researched nothing
about running an single OP as I thought I was going to be the least experienced
member of a multi-2!
When it was clear it was likely to be a single OP, I decided Pat would want to
use his call (NG1G) to operate from home, so I chose the club call WU6CC used
by myself and WA6L, recently SK – a nice way for me to remember him. Check the
WU6CC QRZ site for a classic example of WA6L’s humor!
73
Dan
N6ERD
WU6CC
Posted using 3830 Score Submittal Forms at: http://www.hornucopia.com/3830score/
Should have done the breakdown:
WU6CC(N6ERD) at W1AN
Noted score was 1.3M at 24 hour point, ~19 hours worked
20M was an afterthought until 15M died early today so I was “forced” to move to 20M (which prompted to my move to the station with the working rotor) – I am actually much more comfortable on the FT-1000MP as I used that during the LDC last year.
I tried to copy what I could into the new N1MM install which led the log window to be full screen or nothing (meant it was always minimized/closed) and the Check window was somewhere off screen for the first evening/night – very tough to keep track that the data got saved correctly (log) and check the calls (check window). Took the time to fix all before starting in on Saturday morning
73
N6ERD
WU6CC
Great score, Ken! You guys are to be commended for all the hard work and contesting effort!
Power outages suck because even if you do everything right you just sit and wait. That must have been very frustrating.
I’ll be keeping a close eye on the 3830 reflector…
You all deserve a good night’s sleep.
73,
Pat, NG1G
To all…
After this crappy weather I can’t wait to find a place in North Carolina !!
CQWPXRTTY Score Summary Sheet
Start Date : 2013-02-08
CallSign Used : W1CTN
Operator(s) : W1CTN
Operator Category : SINGLE-OP-ASSISTED
Band : ALL
Power : HIGH
Mode : RTTY
Overlay Category : TB-WIRES
Default Exchange : 001
Gridsquare : FN31LM
Name : DAVE ARRUZZA
Address : 32 BENZ STREET
City/State/Zip : ANSONIA CT 06401
Country : USA
ARRL Section : CT
Club/Team : CTRI CONTEST GROUP
Software : N1MM Logger V12.9.3
Band QSOs Pts WPX
3.5 147 458 101
7 123 486 90
14 137 232 67
21 124 313 88
28 14 40 11
Total 545 1529 357
Score : 545,853
Rig : FT2000 VL1000 600 WATTS OUTPUT
Antennas : 80 INVERTED L
40 DIPOLE
20-10 T10 LOG PERIODIC
Soapbox : 13 HRS OPERATING DUE TO F@#$%@G SNOW STORM
TOO MANY HRS AT THE END OF A SNOW BLOWER/SHOVEL THAN OPERATING
WORKED ALL THE STATIONS I COULD HEAR AND NONE THAT I COULDN’T !
73 Dave
W1CTN
RADIO ANSONIA
Clearly I didn’t read the rules for Single-OP since I came here expecting a multi-2! Until Saturday night I still thought it might be a Multi-one if someone showed up so I either have to cut out 9.5 hours or maybe classify it as Multi-One where I am the one :). I have some pretty slow night runs so will figure it out. If I cut out time, do I submit the extra QSOs as a check log?
Dan, I think they will simply not score any Qs occurring after the first 30 hours.
Pat, NG1G
Great job everyone, and outstanding score for the NP3U crew! Like many others, I was off the air due to the storm (staying with my folks in North Kingstown) on Fri and Sat, and was traveling home / handling domestic stuff on Sunday. See you on the bands for the next ‘test!
73,
– Matt, WE1H
Great scores you guys! I was lucky in that I was one of the few in Charlestown that didn’t lose power during the storm. Plus I was snowed in from Friday afternoon to Sunday afternoon so I didn’t have anything to do except play radio. But I still don’t have the stamina that some of you do and can’t seem to get myself to operate as long as a lot of you. Maybe I need a new chair. I worked 18 hours on this one, probably a new record for me. I need to concentrate on running. Most of my operating time was S&P and although there were plenty to work, running always gets better results. I worked NP3U on 4 bands (didn’t see them on 80), NG1G, W1CTN, and probably others.
Call: KA1GEU
Operator(s): KA1GEU
Station: KA1GEU
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: Charlestown, RI
Operating Time (hrs): 18
Summary:
Band QSOs
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80: 49
40: 161
20: 147
15: 194
10: 41
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Total: 592 Prefixes = 369 Total Score = 592,245
Club: CT RI Contest Group