RTTY Roundup Soapbox built 2-3-2008 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 4U1WB Class: M/S HP Total Score = 3,335 I had to go to my son's ice hockey games on Saturday and Sunday. After the game on Sunday, I asked my XYL if I could go to the 4U1WB station to participate in the RTTY Roundup. She said OK. Thanks for the QSOs. It was nice to work familiar calls. 73, Masa Miura, AJ3M http://www.minokobo.com/je2ywy/ywy12aj3m/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9A35RKP Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 11,526 Rig: Kenwood TS-440S, power: 100W Ant: Inv.V 80/40m, Inv.V 40m, 2el Quad 20/15/10m Software: Writelog + MMTTY First activation of 9A35RKP special event callsign. Nice and fun contest, lot of activity and good conditions. Lack of power amplifier though, to reach some more dx-es :D But working K on 3,5 mhz and JA on 7 as easy as they were on 14 was nice gift from mother of propagations, especially nice conditions on 21. 73 de 9a35rkp MULTIPLIERS States worked: CT MA NH NJ NY MD PA AL FL GA SC TN VA AR MS OH IL WI Provinces worked: ON DX: 4L 9A CT3 DL EA ER EU F G GI GJ I JA LY LZ OH OK OM ON OZ PA S5 SM SP SV UA UA9 UN UR YL YO YU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9A5CW Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 550 After last year 3rd place in WW I decide to not operate from 9A1P this year, it's hard to be "number one" from EU with such great ops from central and south america... maybe will try agn next year with so3r ;)) Worked only 1.2h LowPower with dipole and IC706... 73 Patrik 9A5CW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9A5W Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 185,850 After a few years I took part in RU. Excellent CONDX on 80m, on my beverage W/VE station were coming up to S7. On 20m as usual huge pile up from NA. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: A45WD Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 18,550 Limited time effort, but still enjoyed it. Good luck in 2008's contests! Alex ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA3B Class: M/S HP Total Score = 98,318 HNY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA4LR Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 65,455 Antennas: Cushcraft A3S/A743 at 15m (40m-10m) Shunt-fed 15m tower (80m) Half-size K9AY loops (80m, 40m) Equipment: Elecraft K2/100 w/ KAT100 Ameritron AL-80A running 300-500 watts (200 watts on 80m) Ancient Toshiba laptop N1MM software with MMTTY Homebrew Audio interface Comments: That was really unexpected. Last year, I won the GA certificate for HP in this contest with a really modest score, so I wanted to put in a bigger effort this year. I came down with a bad cold on Thursday, and it hadn't let up by Saturday. I was sick enough to not be able to attend to other business, but not quite sick enough that I couldn't bundle up and prop myself in front of the radio for a little contesting. The rest of the weekend was operating a little, rest a little and repeat. The K2/100 worked flawlessly, even though I had accidentally pumped a few dozen watts the wrong way during SKN. (OOps!) The K2 makes a really excellent receiver for RTTY, especially with the variable-bandwidth filter. The transmitter leaves a bit to be desired, since it can't withstand the full-duty cycle very well. I ran the amplifier and left the K2 at about 35 watts out. The amplifier also kept the shack nice and toasty. 40m was definitely THE band. 20m signals were not terribly strong, and long enough that running domestic stations was difficult. You had to really work for stations on 15m, and 10m was non-existent, despite numerous scans of that band. 40m brought good runs at 2200z for nearly an hour and 45 minutes. And again an hour later until nearly 0230z. What really amazed me after 0100z were all the european stations who called in on 40m, many with very strong signals. I was parked up around 7065, so this was in the phone band in region 1! Thanks to everyone who called in, specially for the mults! I managed a pretty good mix of running and S & P. Worked 49 states -- only missing MT. I thought I would never work a ND station, but had two call in during the penultimate hour. Nearly doubled my score from last year. Not bad for a part-time effort. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA4V Class: M/S HP Total Score = 26,480 Limited time effort.... always a fun contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA5AU Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 206,864 The ARRL RTTY Roundup is the greatest 24 hours in radiosport! However, I thought it was going to be a rough outing when I barely made a hundred contacts the first hour. With the K index going to 3, 15 meters was practically useless Saturday. I never really got into that zone that usually carries me through the first 12 hours. I struggled with the rate and it took me 13 hours to make the number of contacts I normally do in 12. So I decided to change strategy from previous years. Instead of taking six hours of rest at one time at night I decided to go an extra hour Saturday night on the low bands and then take only a 4.5 hour sleep period and hit the low bands again Sunday morning. It worked out well as 40 and 80 were great again Sunday morning. The only problem with the new strategy is that 15 meters surprised me by opening a little bit Sunday late morning/early afternoon. I still needed to take 1.5 hours rest and didn't want to leave fifteen but finally did at 1900Z and took a short nap. The nap helped as I had decent rates until the end of the contest on 20 & 40 and ended up with a respectable score. My goal going into the contest was 1800 contacts and 200k points. Having achieved both goals despite poor high band condx gives me a good feeling and another fun-filled Roundup. I think the biggest lowlight was there seemed to be a higher number of dupes this year. Some stations kept calling me back again and again. I missed MT this year. I kept the higher tribander to the NW on 20 meters for the last two hours. I worked LOTS of W7 stations but no MT. There were several highlights. My score is a highlight. Finding my rival from a previous era, Dick N1RCT. Welcome back to the Roundup Dick! Having 4U1WB call me on 40 meters late Sunday. Having UA0ZAM call me on 20 with 15 minutes to go 'til the end. I saw UA0ZAM while both us were S&P and tried to fish for him but didn't get him an hour earlier. So having him call me meant I didn't see any multipliers I didn't work. That's always cool. All in all it was another great Roundup. I can't wait until 15 (and 10) return. I can only imagine how much fun that will be. The 20th anniversary of the Roundup was a great one. I'm looking forward to the next 20! Station: Icom IC-756 PRO III Kenwood TS-870 Dell XP Pro PC Compaq DeskPro Win98se PC Dunestar 600 filters (2) Dunestar headphone selector WX0B SixPak antenna switch WriteLog for Windows beta version 10.65B MMTTY plug-in for WriteLog HAL DXP-38 for receive only in 2nd RTTY window (2) Homebrew FSK interface (2) JPS NIR-12 DSP audio filter (2) Antennas: Cushcraft A3S at 65 ft. Cushcraft A3S at 40 ft. Cushcraft D40 at 72 ft. 80M inverted vee ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AB0LR Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 83,503 Did not apply myself KT0DX, but i'll get you next time Steve. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AB0RX Class: M/S HP Total Score = 182,125 Great contest! Highest score yet. Saturday was wild with more stations than we could work. Runs lasted hours and hours. Sunday morning had a 4 hour run to Europe. Used Writelog with MMTTY. No problems at all Cu next year K0BX and AB0RX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AE1P Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 15,008 1st RTTY contest,Had fun,even tho I had to spend 15 hrs in code update class this weekend..hope to get more air time on the CQ contest... 73 Neil AE1P ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AF4OX Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 46,046 The antenna renovations and XCVR/AMP replacements for my station functioned flawlessly - even the PC side held up. I had limited time to really make a showing, but did take advantage of the openings on 15M and had fun running stations on 40M. Thanks to everyone who called me. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AI6YL Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 41,856 My first contesting experience was great fun even though our power went out right at the start due to a fierce winter snow storm. Luckily, we had a generator. Later, the receive interface failed so that I could not hear any responses to my CQs which earned me the "no ears" status on the spotting network. I finally found out about the "align" key and enjoyed the rest of the contest. My thanks to W6OJ who was a great help getting the station set up for RTTY and my OM, AI6V, for assisting me during the contest. This put me in the assisted category, but I didn't see a check box for it in the 3830 report. I appreciated everyone's patience and would like to thank all for the contacts! Sue/AI6YL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AI9T Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 175,856 I had a few more contacts this year but 5 less multipliers. Did manage to beat last years score by a few points though. Over all it was a great contest. 40 and 80 meters were really hot on Saturday night. CU in the next contest 73 Steve AI9T www.ai9t.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AL1G Class: M/S HP Total Score = 17,200 We thought last year was bad! Ahahahaha! Last year we had 350 q's....and 79 q's on 15m...zero this year on 15m.. We always have fun in the roundup! CYA next year! Corliss and Frank HNY! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CT9M Class: M/S HP Total Score = 218,139 Nice contest om our side. Propagation was quite open to USA. To Europe was not so good, but workable in nice conditions. Many difficulties towards Asia, speccialy Japan. Very few Japonese stations worked. The Setup was the following: Radio - 1x Icom 156ProII Antennas: Monobanders for 10,15,20 and 40m 80m a single wire Dipol, turned North. In 40m we had problems with the rotator, did not wnat to work, so we used the 2 elements Force12 turned to US everytime. Thanks all the stations who had the pacience to work us, and also all the stations who spotted us on the Cluster Network. Cu on the CQWWCW 160. Luis - CT3EE CT3 Madeira Contest Team Member ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DD7ZT Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 1,560 My first try in the ARRL RU. Very good activity on the bands. A must for next year! Working condition: FT897 100W @ inv-V dipol. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA1CJ Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 38,376 Nice contest good conditions to NA in low bands, 10 and 15 close here all contest in my time operation. This is the first contest with my new call. See you in next RTTY contest. Juanjo, EA1CJ (previously EB1ISN) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA8OM Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 34,191 Equipment: IC-756PROIII 100 Watt GPA-50 for 10,15,20,80m and Dipol for 40m ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F4JRC Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 66,330 Hello, Good propagation 40m My station N1MM and MMTTY with EXTFSK in digimode IC756P2 and 500W in four vertical phase 500 qso carry out the first night and 170 the second night. 73 happy new year 2008 Thierry f4jrc ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F5BEG Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 80,134 Rig : FT990 90w + NIR-12 Antennas: 80m - Dipole 40m - D40 up 19m 20m - 4el up 17m 15m - 5el up 14m 73 Gerard F5BEG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F5NBU Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 38,930 Operate from my club Station F5KEF equipement : TL 922 with 500W Icom 746 pro antenna : Beam 3el steppir Beam 2el 40m by Dxbeam Dipole 80m 2x20m ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F5RD Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 11,150 A lot of stations here from 80 m to 15 m for this first 2008 contest. Mainly actif Sunday morning and evening. Not at home the afternoon. Calling CQ on 10 m during half an hour Sunday morning. Nobody, nobody .... Thanks to all who worked me. See you again in 2009. F5RD Bernard ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G6PZ Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 185,625 A quick ditty from the G6PZ camp. Call G6PZ SO HP ( Op Serge M0SDX ) I did this one a few years ago with Serge and whilst he was back in the UK for a short time he called me up and suggested another shot at "Roundup" As Serge is the expert we decided that he did single op and I would try and keep the station "on air" especially as it was going to be a rough night. Everything worked without any drama other than the WX, very high winds were causing some trouser related issues as the 3 Strumech's swayed quite alarmingly in the gale coming up off the Bristol Channel.. However the aerials did survive but the 80m phased verticals were more horizontal than not causing a good workout of the swr meter. Not much VE activity heard but some good Westcoast openings on 20 and 40 throughout the weekend. The new 4 ele MonstIR performed very well on 40, with huge runs into NA that were a blast. 80m was nice finishing with a mini NA run right at the end of the contest. The " off period " negated the big openings to the Far East but some JA's and VK's etc. did find their way into the log. Overall very enjoyable watching someone else do all the hard work, I think that we must do some more RTTY ! cu in the next one ( maybe ). 73 Paul G6PZ Unchecked score QSO DX STATES PROV 80 309 38 27 4 40 504 49 38 3 20 592 46 45 5 15 080 19 17 3 1485 73 45 7 TOTAL 185'625 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: GU0SUP Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 17,220 Very limited operating time, and only in the shack sporadically. Had some great fun on 80m, and nice to see so much activity. My log is on LoTW already, but paper cards are always welcome. HNY, 73 es TNX for the points and the fun de Phil GU0SUP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: GW7X Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 45,056 The ARRL RTTY Roundup is the first contest in the year in which United Kingdom club stations can use SCC's (Special Contest Calls) see - http://www.contesting.co.uk/hfcc/information/spc.shtml CONTEST CAMBRIA decided it would be a good idea to submit at least a token entry in our first RTTY contest. Although not a great fan of the mode (although it is growing on me), I voluntered to operate from my home station as GW7X. I set a target of 500 conatcts, and interspersed with domestic chores, that was easily met with some half a dozen or so hours of casual operating. So the mark (unintended pun!) has been set, and it's over to A.N. Other in our team to prepare for the next (SCC) RTTY event - roll on BARTG RTTY (!) Steve GW4BLE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HI3T Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 172,162 Hi Guys: Thanks eveyones been logged this time, I did enjoy the nice pile up all over. Amazing propa on 20 and 15 and this year even I did not break my 40 meter qso's from last year NICE but Very NICE behavior from everyones... Great contest in years free of deliberating qrmer's. Still a lot of problem at the tower due to the last hurricane but I can' complaint as much as I did really enjoy it. My greatest thanks to all the ham from JA land on my log, Missed or I did not heard anyones from DC, MT and from VE missed LB,NU,NWT,YT and a lot of easy ones. Only runing with a FT2000 AND 2 PCS WITH MTTY AND MIXW RUNNING SIMULTANEOSLY and oh course my Steppir and 2 L for 40 but a very low height and a 1/4 wave vertical on 80. God bless you guys and hope to CU in the other big show on Feb. is a pity that Hamcation is at the same weekend. If anyones can give me a hand on SO2R for RTTY please will be in eternal thanks Ted HI3TEJ 73'S ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IC8TEM Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 27,720 Wonderful contest, maybe the first 24H test done as well as my possibilities. I worked only for 21,85 hours due to be in my family's home, and not in a contest shack like the better contesters, but I'm satisfied. It's my first time in Round-UP, so I condiser me as a novice. I already know the big RTTY contests, but every one has a special charateristic: for this one I mean the goal to have QSOs with US/VE stns; in fact, I had qso with not many countries (maybe someone were not active), but also I'm happy to hear HR, P4, because I have big mountain in this direction and also big contesters nearby to me had troubles to have QSOs with this DX stations. I hope to obtain an encouraging result in my country because I don't have a good shack: only 1/4 GP vertical for 10, 15, 20, 40 and Knw TS-2000. I hope also to be QRV in more HF contests (maybe also RTTY)... Only one thing I have to remember to the stations I have worked: if someone want a QSL, please write to me or follow instructions on qrz.com, hamcall and other callbooks. Thanks for also for people who had QSO with me. Sorry for my poor english.. Best 73 and HNY de Costy IC8TEM cococosti[at]alice[dot]it ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IK1DFH Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 44,091 Band : ALL Power : LOW Mode : RTTY Default Exchange : 1 Gridsquare : JN33WU Name : Martorana Roberto Address : via Campi 54 City/State/Zip : Arma di Taggia IT 18018 Country : ITALY ARRL Section : DX Club/Team : Software: N1MM Logger V7.12.1 Band QSOs Pts Sta Cty 3,5 181 181 2 6 7 270 270 9 36 14 155 155 9 9 21 15 15 0 0 Total 621 621 20 51 Score : 44.091 Very best contest, my top score worked. 73" Roberto ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0EU Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 29,315 So many contests, so little time! This is a fun contest. Got N1MM hooked up to MMTTY on Friday and gave it a spin. Pretty easy on the brain and ears to do RTTY contests since you don't need to copy much while the computer does all the work. Just push buttons or click a mouse! Couldn't find AK, NE, or MT to complete a weekend WAS. Didn't spend much time hunting down country mults. Seems like the East Coasters have a huge advantage there with the low sunspots, but what else is new? Lots of QSO's with other GMCC members including W0ETT K0UK KT0DX KF0UR KO7X N0KE W0MU and others. Colorado was well represented. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0SR Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 142,410 Something bad happened Saturday morning....it was almost impossible to hear or work Europe the whole weekend on any band. That sure doesn't help the multiplier situation any. Some great runs and a lot of activity made the time go very quickly. Used N1MM/MMTTY and a homebrew interface. 15 was oh so close to opening up and being really good but it just never happened. One signal heard on 10 meters, a local. 73 and HNY to you all! Steve K0SR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0TG Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 30,225 Had some great runs on 40 topping the 10 minute rate at 125/hr+. Not bad for RTTY! As you can see 40 was my strong band. Had some great runs there Sunday AM, then went to 20 and was disappointed. Pulled the pin and packed for my business trip to Denver, came back and it was a bit better. The biggest treat was running across Theo, ON4ATW on 40 and getting a quick keyboard chat as well. Good to see Theo on RTTY! 73, John K0TG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0UK Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 45,640 Wasnt a full effort for family reasons and snow. Had lots of rain and snow static from the storm moving thus western Colorado. Did more running than S&P high in the band. Worst moment was on 80mtrs sunday morning and some what sleepy. Got a call from VE9DX and I CQ'ed in his face by pushing the wrong key. Plus we had a power outage about that time also. Just getting ready to hook the generator up when the power came back on. Thank goodness for the battery back up on the computer. Worked K0FX Don hope you got my call correct Hi, K0EU, WA0RSX,AB0LR. Plus worked WA3COS, K0SDW, Heard W0ETT on 20mtrs and KO7Xon 15mtrs and WT9Q Bob on 80mtrs but he moved too fast for me..Hi... No stations heard except WA0RSX on 10mtrs. Didnt hear K0RFD in this one. I guess I should have called to see if he was going to be on. If so I would have run HP. Oh well it was fun. One radio only on RTTY. Thanks much to WA0RSX for his help prior to the contest. PTL God Bless to all. Bill ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0WA Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 37,417 This is a fun contest and you can work a lot of people with 100 watts and average antennas. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0YQ/7 Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 20,856 Thanks to all for the QSOs and hope I was able to help out with ID. My antenna was just a 26 gauge ~65' inverted-L wire, up only 20' hidden under the eave of my house. Based on that, I exceeded my expectations and had a really great time. Best wishes to all for a great 2008 and looking forward to next year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1ZZI Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 156,822 This was my first RTTY Round-Up and I really enjoyed all the activty. It was a good SO1R workout for me. It makes me appreciate the skills of the SO2R OPs. It was just an all around fun contest. Thanks for all the contacts and putting up with me when I hit the wrong F (function) key :) 73, Ralph K1ZZI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2YG Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 27,650 Elecraft K2 Cushcraft A3S and Dipole RITTY by K6STI RTTY by WF1B ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3MJW Class: M/S HP Total Score = 86,835 Great time at the club house. Limburger sandwiches for lunch both days. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3TD Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 19,200 756ProII 100 watts and Inverted L 30'H x 75'L My first RTTY contest in almost 15 years - what a blast, especially with N1MM and MMTTY. My low stealth Inverted L plays pretty well on 40 - I was even able to get a couple of runs going. I was surprised at some of the DX I was hearing and able to work during daylight hours. It was neat to have AA5AU call me late in the contest - and I needed LA. Can't wait until next year! 73, Tad, K3TD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4CZ Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 97,679 Rig: Kenwood TS-930 w/ Piexx board, Ameritron AL-80B (running 400w) Antenna: Force 12 C-4 @ 50' for 40-10m; Butternut HF9V for 80m Software: N1MM / MMTTY First time I reached 1000 Qs in any contest. Thanks to all the ops I worked and to the contest organizers. 73, Barry K4CZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4KO Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 24,480 -- Ralph Stanley for President Stanley/Scruggs in '08 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4OD Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 6,890 Yaesu FT-897D @ <=100 Watts Output All Wire Antennas Called CQ on 10 Meters several times with no success T'was the night before CONTEST And all was now quiet The rigs made not a peep A peaceful, happy night The Hams were now sleeping All snuggled in their beds With visions of sun spots dancing in their heads etc.... etc.... etc.... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4RO Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 56,430 Last year was so much fun I was sure that I was going to go full-time again this year. It didn't work out that way, but I had a blast during the time I was able to operate. Was delighted to work all 50 states, although missed DC and several VE provinces. DX conditions were down from this are west of the Appalachian mountains, but who can complain when a TR8 calls in. :-) RTTY contesting is a lot of fun -- consider giving it a try this year. See you in the NAQP! 73 -Kirk K4RO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4TD Class: M/S HP Total Score = 180,916 Conditions seemed better for this one. It was the first time in a long while that 20M produced more Q's than 40M from here...even had a nice run of JA's on 20M toward the end of the contest. A35WD called us right in the middle of an OP change, and we both wanted to work him... KY4F pushed me out of the way and hogged the keyboard for the Q... :-) Our apologies to V73RY for the difficulty we had in pulling off the Q, but it was nice to work him for the mult. Wasn't expecting to work a V73 at 0446Z with the yagi aimed at EU... :-) In this contest, KY4F was the sprinter and I was the anchorman. Doug would run the rate up right before a shift change, and when he turned the rig over to me, the rate dropped like an anchor... :-) Thanks for all the Q's... Now it's time for the post contest ritual of cigars and Scotch... 73, Rick & Doug K4TD & KY4F ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4WW Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 106,711 My best, ever, SO effort. Not being able to complete the full 24 hours, surely cost me the additional contacts, to achieve 1000 contacts. Nice to see so many new calls. More than 10% of my contacts were with "never before worked on RTTY" stations. I'm proud to be part of a contest mode that has the ability to be competitive, while still being courteous! With stations, on 20 meters, between 14.065-14.140, I never noticed any "frequency fights". Thanks to all for the contacts, the sponsors, log checkers, and last but not least, Mountain West Radio for their support. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4XD Class: M/S LP Total Score = 64,980 When I started dabbling in contesting a year ago, I was doing it mostly because it was a good way to fill out band slots and work on DXCC on multiple bands, and it was fun -- lots of QSO's in a short time -- love that adrenaline rush and seeing what your station could do. RTTY was the first mode I felt confident running. I didn't have to worry about being able to copy someone else's CW, or dig that weak SSB signal out of the mud. Sure, I still had to work a bit at it -- tuning around and trying different antennas, tweaking the RIT to line up the guy who was not zero beat on my mark signal, or deciding which of the four different call signs coming from the same signal were real and which were garbled -- but I could run stations, and running is fun! For last year's RTTY Roundup, I was still in my "spend a couple hours for fun" mode on contesting, and to my chagrin I look back and see that I worked 25 stations, got 400 points, and did it over the span of 2.5 hours! Good grief, was I really that slow?! Although I see my last Q was FR1HZ in Reunion, so at least there was one cherry in that bowl. My first Q was N4BAA, back when he was N4... somehow I managed to miss N1BAA totally this year -- that's something of an accomplishment since he was everywhere!! This year, I'm more into seeing what kind of score I can rack up, and putting in the hours to do it. Although I still find it hard physically to go 24 hours out of 30, and to devote that much of my weekend to my hobby (?) while my wife patiently brings me meals and hydration. What a sweetheart, I'm one lucky son of a TNC. So the prospect of a RTTY contest with lots of activity got me pumped up, and the RRU delivered. Maybe because this is the first RTTY contest I tried keep BIC for, I found it more tiring than I expected. My neck is still stiff from staring at the screen that long (and tilting my bi-focaled vision to read the print). For a change, all the antennas and interfaces were ready to go prior to the event, so I leisurely got things powered up about an hour before the contest and started checking my WriteLog macros. I usually end up tweaking them during the first hour or two of the contest so I don't get too obsessive over it before the test. I think I'm getting a pattern that works and the tweaking is decreasing. I also finally figured out how WriteLog stores keyboard macros in the contest files, and by using the Browse button to last year's file I can load up the old macros as a starting point. That sure saves some time. I've also been using WA4PGM's Excel function key templates -- thanks! -- editing them to match my macro setup, printing it out, and cutting and taping it to the keyboard. It's a big help when you need the less often used macros at 1AM and you're not exactly feeling your sharpest. I use a very simple digital interface from Donner Digital that supports AFSK RTTY. This is the first RTTY contest where I found myself wanting to try FSK, not for the sending, but so I could use the Icom's RTTY filters. I did a little digging around on the Internet last night, but it looks like I would have to spend hundreds of dollars to get this one additional capability (FSK). I have a WinKey USB interface for CW, and my Donner interface handles radio command and sound card modes. I'll have to stew on it for a bit. I'm thinking if I spend anything, I might as well get something that supports SO2R so if I ever want to go that route, I won't have to buy Yet Another Ham Radio Toy (but honey, all the other hams have one!). Anyone having ideas for a cheap route to FSK that works with MMTTY and WinWarbler, drop me a line. Or a nice SO2R setup that doesn't cost more than my AL-80B. On to the contest...I spent the first 30 minutes warming up on 20M and the "trend of the contest" for me emerged early -- 5 of my first 18 Q's were from MN. I think MN must have more RTTY ops per ham capita than anywhere else in the US! Lots and lots of RTTY from the Black Hole. My wife is from Duluth, MN and in her less sanguine moments longs nostalgically to return to friends and family there. No offense, it's a beautiful spot ... in August. I'm thinking that two weeks in January would cure her. And I tell her that RF simply disappears about 100 miles before reaching that part of the US. Every time I tell her I just had a QSO with MN, hoping to improve her opinion of my hours spent on the radio by associating it with something she likes, I can tell I'm digging myself a hole. "I thought you said ham radio didn't work well there?" Keep your trap shut, Rowland! I was hoping for more DX on 20M. I did have a G, LZ and a GI grace me with Q's in the first 30 mins. I then decided that if 15M was going to produce, this was a good time to go check it out, so I went "upstairs" to 15M for the next 45 mins and found it pretty quiet, although I got a couple KH6's, P4, PY, HP and my lone LU of the test. Tried running but the rate was pretty low -- managed to work my neighbor, N4CW, who I am now christening N4RTY! Checked out 10M and it was dead as a doornail, as it was every other time I took a peek. That Icom 756 pro scope rocks for doing a quick visual check of "is anyone there?" So back to 20M I go, tra la la, picking a few mults off the band map, XE, KL, KP4, HI, I, and YV, then picked through the QRM and found a small open spot to run. I like using the FFT scope to find signals and open spots. A RTTY signal looks like "owl ears" when it pokes up on the display. Find a spot midway between two sets of ears, and guess if there is enough room so when someone calls you they won't be clobbering either set... and make sure the ears on both sides of you are not so big they squash you. How's that for a technical description!? Anyway, I found my groove here for about an hour, mostly getting West and Midwest stations. A little S&P when things slowed down, then another nice run higher up around 14123. I was running low power, and my homebrew hexbeam was beaming NE, hoping to get some EU mults. The band must have been in pretty good shape, or the leaky pattern of the hexbeam was helping, because I was getting called from all points on the compass. Throughout the test, running would get me rates from 45/hr to 120/hr but usually the runs would start petering out after 30 to 60 minutes and I'd get antsy and start S&P'ing. I guess I'm more of an ADD personality than I thought. Good/bad news about the Icom 756PII scope - you can see all those signals and when the run rate droops, it's too tempting to drop your run freq and start checking out those other stations. But I found that the S&P rate on a very populated, fresh band would peak around 60/hr when things were good -- lots of activity, almost every station was new, they answered me on first or second call. But more typically, after 10 minutes of 60/hr rate, S&P would drop to 20/hr or less. I also lost time rotating the beam on 20M S&P, determined to get through. Probably added another minute on average to 1/3 the S&P contacts, whereas running is more self-selective -- if they answer my CQ, they obviously can hear me even if they are on the backside of the hexbeam. At 2320 that Icom scope was showing a lot of empty space on 20M, and a quick glance at 40M showed wall to wall activity, so down to 40M we go. About 70 minutes and 50 Q's. Not a neck-snapping pace by any means, but some minutes here and there with back-to-back calls, the way I like it. By the way, as a matter of style -- I set my TU QRZ macro to repeat the calling station's QTH/NR back to them, which probably adds .2 of a second to each Q, and 98% of the time is overkill, but I know it's reassuring to see your exchange coming back to you so you know it was really copied correctly. In the last 45 minutes of the contest, the pace was really picking up, and I had confidence in what I was copying, so I edited the macros down to more bare bones exchanges. Maybe I should do that from the start next time? I notice that most people just send K4XD TU QRZ? type messages. I stayed on 40M until almost midnight locally. It was the money band for me -- just a bit ahead of 80M, and 20M was in third place. I suspect if I had a better antenna for running EU I would have had better results on 20M, but as stood, only about 5% of my Q's were DX (not counting VE as DX). I managed to find a hole around 3550 at midnight and enjoyed a good run there of about 20 Q's in 15 minutes, then started S&Ping up the band to work those scope signals. Looking back, I could probably do better if I would just stay parked on my run freq, but I also think after 11 hours in the chair, I needed the S&P action to stay awake. It was during the first few hours of the contest, re-reading the rules, that I started to wonder what the "you can only take your 6 hours off in two blocks" rule meant. A quick note to the PVRC reflector reassured me that this really meant that I couldn't take a lot of 30 minute breaks like people do in SS, and as long as my two breaks totalled six hours, any additional time off would simply be subtracted from my 24 hour max allowed. To be honest, I don't "get" this rule. Why would anyone really care how I split the 6 hours off? And it still has me wondering what would happen if, e.g., I took two one hour breaks in the first 12 hours, then slept for 5 hours, and then took 30 minutes here and there on Sunday. Would the first two one hour breaks be considered as "six hours off" and I could get a nasty surprise later to learn that I was "done" four hours earlier than I thought? As it stands, I worked for 12 hours, took 6 to sleep, and then took some time off on Sunday, so I think I'm fine. But I could have used a 30 minute stretch break or two on Saturday and it made me feel uncomfortably restricted to not be sure if taking that time would eat up my 6 hours of break time or in some other way detract from my score. At 0616 the rate was still north of 45/hr and I should have kept at it, but I just had to bag it for the night. I also knew that I would need to be at the dials at daybreak to get a shot at a whole different set of mults. So after 5:56 off, at 1214 I got back on 80M, found a hole on 3573 and picked up 85 Q's in 75 minutes. Funny how the Northeast is scarce in the evenings here in NC but dominates the band in the morning. Both 80 and 40 are chock full of stations from OH to ME. At 1346 I wanted to check out 20M to see if there would be any EU activity, remembering the great rates to EU I had during CQ WW CW on 20M around this time. But not today. Only 5 q's in 15 mins, with one new mult, PA. I figured it was "now or never" for the 40M morning show so found a spot at 7049 and had a rollicking hour picking up 70 Q's with some rates hitting 131/hr, the best of the test for me. Man was that fun. I think contesting is best when it's like fishing in a barrel. DX'ing is more like sailing for a week and finally catching that trophy fish. (Although to thoroughly confuse my metaphors, the ARRL 10M test was like fishing in the desert!). At 1500 I had to take a break from the radio so I put my fate in the hands of the ARRL contest committee and took two hours off to clear my head. Came back to 20M, picked up GW and EA8, then another 45 minutes off at 1945. I was really finding it hard to stay at the keyboard, but after 15 minutes away I felt compelled to come back. I think psychologists call this an approach-avoidance conflict -- you are equally attracted to two opposite goals... From 1946 I was back for good, keeping BIC until 2400. I had my best run on 15M until about 2036, and then hit 20M until 2200, down to 40M for a pretty slow hour, and finished on 80M for the last 50 minutes. As often happens, the rate of that last half hour is one of the best. When I hit 80M I was still 26 Q's shy of 700 and with the 19/hr rates I was seeing on 40M at 2300, I was doubtful I'd break 700 Q's. Well, maybe I should have come to 80M straight from 20M, as it yielded 50 Q's in as many minutes. I didn't really set a clear goal for myself at the start of this contest, other than to have fun and run as much as I could. As it stands, I improved over 2006 (just a bit ;-), had a lot of fun, and didn't break anything. I struggled more to stay in the chair than I had in SS and CQ WW. I think part of it was just wanting to do some other things with my weekend. We need two weekends in parallel - one for contesting and one for enjoying the time off from work! If anyone has read this far, I have a question about the band change rule. It says you are allowed 6 band changes per hour. Makes me wonder about SO2R -- don't most SO2R's run each radio on a different band? Doesn't seem feasible in the RU. Thanks all for the Q's and see you next time. 73, Rowland K4XD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5ZD Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 52,936 Started at 5:30am on Sunday. Very suprised to have VK6HD and V73RY call me on 80m! Then had two VU2 call in on 20m (and they were loud). 15m opened a bit to southern Europe, but not enough to do much. Great to see so much activity. And the level of operating just keeps getting better! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6CTA Class: M/S HP Total Score = 17,822 Finally made the leap to WriteLog and a MicroKeyer II. What a change from a PK232 and decades old terminal software. Monster storm knocked out power for 36 hours, but it came back on early Saturday afternoon...in time for me to get in the contest. Learning curve wasn't as bad as I expected. Thanks for the Q's. I'll be back for more RTTY contests..... 73, Ed - K6CTA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6GEP Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 33,969 I was able to devote longer blocks of time to the contest this year, with fewer interruptions. With no path to Europe again this year, this turned out to be a double-length RTTY NAQP. I managed to more than double my number of QSO's this year, mainly due to improved software, dedicated dipoles for 15 and 80 meters, and 18 months experience in RTTY contesting, compared to just 6 months last year. I was happy to finally break the 500 QSO barrier in a contest for the first time. My strategy was to stay away from the chaos on 20 meters at the opening of the contest, and thankfully, 15 was open. I think I didn't spend enough time on 80, but I think I made up for it on 40. Nice opening to CT3 and EA8 land around 0700z. NA Sections Missed: VT DE MT AB LB NB NF NU NWT PEI YT No new ones worked on RTTY for DXCC. 8-( I didn't work NJ until very late Sunday. I guess NJ is outside PVRC territory? Speaking of PVRC - VA and MD well represented - tnx. Tnx to Ed for putting P49X on the air. Rig: FT-990 100 W Ants: 80 meter dipole sloped from 50 ft 40 meter inverted vee at 50 feet 20 meter dipole at 20 feet 15 meter dipole at 25 feet Software: N1MM + MMTTY - flawless and a joy to use Filter: MFJ 784B ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6LL Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 178,568 Great participation! Now, we just need some sunspots. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6MM Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 39,340 My First ARRL RTTY Round-Up. Gave it my best shot for 15 hours. Great conditions and fun contest. Thanks for the Qs. 73 and Happy New Year, John K6MM. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7BTW Class: M/S HP Total Score = 115,996 >From high in the jet stream above beautiful downtown Preston, the crack operating team of N9ADG, K7BTW, and a dog named Jordan, using the call K7BTW, kicked butt in the ARRL RTTY Roundup. Despite high winds on Saturday, snow on Sunday, a killer prototype SteppIR antenna that was mounted in the wrong direction, a computer that keep freezing up, and terrible band conditions, this artful team of crafty ops perfected the technique of doing power S&P in addition to their time proven running abilities to achieve a score unparalleled in modern Eastern King County history. Thanks to the SteppIR prototype, the stations on 40 meters just kept rolling in. The SteppIR was used on all bands, except 80 where a dipole did the job. And, unlike last year, no amps blew up. The 30 hour contest allows for only 24 hours on the air. The dynamic Trio (counting Jordan), averaged over 50 q's per hour for the entire period of operating. It was wall to wall stations, so if you don't do rtty, you are missing a lot of fun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7EG Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 21,172 Operating time was impacted by two playoff games and Presidential Debates. 80M was a bust as my SteppIR BiggIR vertical 80M loading coil failed :( !! Ran balance of contest with SteppIR yagi. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7RE Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 88,560 Murphy struck, had a failure in one of my power supplies, so lost 2 hours reconfiguring the station. 90 MPH winds the night before caused my RV shelter to become airborne and severely bend my 2 el beam. Noted many more "5NN" reports this time out, as well as much more activity, 40 CW band was wall to wall RTTY! Wound up with about 20 hours total time on. EU DX was non existent the first day, and only very marginal on Sunday morning from this QTH, so not many mults. were worked. Missed MT (an adjoining state!) and DC, missed several of the rarer VE Provinces too. Still, very happy to do so well at the solar minimum, wait until next year! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7ZS Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 32,980 Just got on to play a little, didn't fire up the amplifier thinking I wasn't going to be able to spend much time at it. Well, the bands were pretty good, and it's hard to leave the chair when there is a good amount of activity, but finally had to because it was snowing heavily at this QTH and needed supplies from town. The 4 element SteppIR @ 90 feet sure makes the exciter's 70 watts seem like more, and great to see the high level of participation! Little did we know, that there was a Cycle 24 sunspot among the few on Ol' Sol! - the first contest of the new cycle (if you believe it really is here!) Have Fun, see you in the next one (hopefully with 10 meters working again!) 73 Kevin K7ZS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9CT Class: M/S HP Total Score = 9,180 My first RTTY contest and just integrating the N1MM and MMTTY with MK2R+. Everything worked great. I spent majority of time on 15m filling in WAS. Good openings to EU, AF, SA and the Pacific. Band conditions changed quickly. Lots of fun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KA2KON Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 8,944 Had a great time mostly s+p. Ran a little at the end, but a "big gun" came along side my frequency and wiped me out. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KB1CJ Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 31,679 Nice to see so many RTTY ops in the contest, even though the DX conditions were limited. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KD0S Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 45,288 I am always on call weekends and as usual had a busy saturday. Started the contest almost 3 hours late and was called away several times for short jobs. Missed WY, MT, and SD.. I found W0SD in SD who was very loud 3 times during the contest but couldnt work them. Once they got KE0S and I thought they would copy my call but no luck. Its usually a slam dunk from here but the low power operation didnt make the grade. I had quite a bit of trouble holding a frequency and even though I could hear the higher power stations well, they couldnt say the same about me. I was astonished at the number of cw nets this weekend and noticed many of you like myself wound up in the cw only portion of the band with our rtty signals. I think that was mostly in the 20 meter novice band.... I will probably get another letter like last years... Anyway its nice to see all the cw ops out for the Rtty contest, just hope we have an equal showing for the cw NAQP. One thing to note was on 80 meters my dipole seemed to consistently outperform the full size vertical at distance. That is not usually the norm so I dont know if it was propagation or problems with the vertical. A quick check tonight showed one of the elevated radials is burned in two. Some testing is in order. It was really nice to hear all the old friends we work year after year in RU. I hope you all have a blessed 2008. Jim KD0S ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KD4HXT/6 Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 13,695 First RTTY RU in a long time. Lots of fun, even with 25 watts and my loop. Had limited time with movie night Saturday night, a hot water heater the failed on Sunday AM, and work on Sunday. Able to run a bit, and that's always great. The antenna work I did over the holidays got me on 80 meters for the first time. Never heard EU, and only seemed to hear a handful of JA's. This event always seems to have a casual feel with great operators. Thanks for pulling me out. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KD5J Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 2,272 2008 ARRL RTTY Roundup KD5J SINGLE-OP-LP AR Section QSOs QSO pts. Mults. -------------------------------------------- 40m 33 33 14 20m 26 26 14 15m 12 12 4 -------------------------------------------- TOTALS 71 71 32 Claimed score = 2272 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KE1F Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 39,590 Great contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KE3D Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 21,624 My rotator was broken and antenna free wheeling. This made operating more interesting. Conditions seemed to show promise, but the large amounts of QSB provided a challenge. This was a fun run do to the antenna. The QSO count wasn't bad, but it was frustrating that many DX multipliers were not strong enough to make QSOs. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KE4KWE Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 78,848 Lost 2 hrs at the beginning due to a software failure. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KE4UNA Class: M/S HP Total Score = 108,885 Lee county, Alabama is a hotbed of RTTY activities, including contesting. This year, I invited KE4UNA,Jeff, to operate RTTY Roundup with me in a Multi-single entry. He agreed and though everything came together at the last minute, we had a great time. Jeff did a malor part of the operating because of my recent knee replacement, and after about 1 hour, you would have thought he had been RTTY contesting for at least 10 years. Antennas were all wire and limited except for the 80 meter vertical. Thanks to all who Q'd us. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KE5OG Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 105,090 Another great roundup. I knew it would be tough when I saw the prop numbers before the test. Europe just didn't stay around long here in West Texas. When TA1DX called me I about fell outa the chair. What a nice surprise. I tried 10 a few times but no takers. I started slow, well below my plan, which was discouraging, but it turned out ok. I've been in about the same area score wise the last three years, so its time to make something happen. I really appreciate all the Q's and RTTY ops. It seemed like I worked a lot a new stations...that's a good thing. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KF0UR Class: M/S LP Total Score = 54,954 Well, we operated as KF0UR from W0RAA. Thanks for all the contacts and patience that everybody showed. As usual, 10 meters was non-existent, 15 was nothing to brag about, but 20, 40 & 80 were OK. We can hardly wait until 10 meters opens like the "good old days" that many of us remember. This is a fun contest and I/we look forward to it every year. The Good Lord willing and the creek don't rise, we'll be back in 2009. Thanks again, everybody. Dick-W0RAA Shel-KF0UR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KG5U Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 9,540 Started out SO1R. Then decided to add a laptop and my other Omni VI to run SO2R. Worked out well. I should have, however, moved the first log over to the new MixW log to preclude working dupes, but didn't think about it until it was too late. Interesting contest. Still not sure I like RTTY all that much, though. There's something missing sitting watching the text print on the screen. Fun, nonetheless. Thanks for the Q's and putting up with my clutzmanship jumping from multiple keyboards and mice. Many thanks to those who included my call in the front AND back ends of their exchange. Save a lot of delays and/or requests for repeats. Many thanks to those who kept their exchanges to one line and the chatter to a minimum. Many thanks to those who repeated their exchange when they got no response to their first transmission. 73, dale, kg5u ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KH6CW Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 42,048 Listening to several other Big Island stations having Q totals about 3 times mine - make me realize that Realtors aren't the only ones talking up "location, location, location ...". ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KK5OQ Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 171,684 Best effort in any previous test. Highest q's on 40 and 20 in any test. K4, W1 and a KA0 was putting out some s7 spurs on several bands. Still looking for that VE8. Use to be one up around the dew line at one time. Think he was in a .mil unit there. Thanks for all the Q's..see you in the next one..I hope. 73 charles/kk5oq ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KN4Q Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 11,536 73, Dale kn4q ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KO7X Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 50,897 Missed Wyoming and Montana for a WAS. Nothing heard on 10 meters. First ever RTTY Roundup for me. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KR1ST Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 4,100 Rig: IC-756ProIII Ant: hank of wire Pwr: 100W I was too busy to work the contest, but I managed to squeeze in a 100 contacts near the end of the contest. Hopefully I get more time next time. 73, --Alex KR1ST http://www.kr1st.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KS0M Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 11,310 This contest was a lot of fun, even with propagation not so good. The only run I could produce by calling CQ was on 40 meters. I look forward to this contest every year and will be back for the next one. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT0DX Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 101,010 Great activity from all parts of the country except I was never able to find a MT station at all and heard only 1 NV station and he/she was in the S&P mode at the time. I think the Montana operators must have gone to North Dakota to operate as I have not run across so many North Dakota stations in a contest before. Wish some of the operators on 20 meters would have moved to 15 meters on Sunday as the band was really open as I was able to work stations from Florida up into the New England states around 1PM (Mountain Time) with no problem except there were so few on the band. There was also some long path going on as I was able to work a ZL and V73RY was moving around the band working folks. Spent a little time on 10 meters but never heard anyone. Maybe next year we will find 10 meters a little more active. Hope to see everyone next year and I wish we had this sort of RTTY activity during Field Day. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT1I Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 41,916 Enjoyed this contest as always. No problems with station was a plus. Tried for that 500th contact but the clock ran out. A lot of new calls in there. Thanks to all that worked me. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT7G Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 8,684 Problem solving experience for the Belize trip for WPX rtty. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KU5B Class: M/S LP Total Score = 4,410 CHECKLOG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LZ9R Class: M/S LP Total Score = 52,000 TS850SAT + A3s + 1/2 slopers We had big snow storms these days prior to contest.It is impossible to go to my contest place as there is about 1 meter of snow everywhere :). This week(end) I was on call and because of snow,wind and cold there were many power outages ( many calls and slepless operator ) so my ears look like cell phones :))). Decide to stop before the end because I'm very tired , sleepy and lazy. Next year will be better... Congrats to UT3HWW , they have 150 more QSO's three hours to the finnish line. CU in WW 160 CW or BARTG ( depends on the weather ) 73 Nasko p.s. Was NEVER spotted during entire contest - it is a shame ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: MI0LLL Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 156,604 Antennas 10m 5L US + KT36XA 15m 5L US + KT36XA 20m KT36XA 40m 2L at 60ft 80m Vertical + inverted V at 60ft Entering this contest as SO1R (not yet setup for anything else) I knew it would be a disadvantage but it was not until I was operating that I learnt how much it was. Was using N1MM and thought I had everything well setup until the contest started where the program kept sending everyone the serial number of the previous contact to the one that was logged, I am sure all you N1MM users know why it did that but I did not, I stopped 40mins into the contest and took me 3.5 hours to get it sorted (it is a good job you can take official breaks in this contest). 40m by far was the best band with a good strong run to the US on the first night and 59 JA stations worked in the morning along with some far east / pacific mults, it is a pity they were only one pointers, I worked right up until 10:00z (1.5h after sunrise). 80m was good on the vertical until it developed a high SWR, the low dipole was only good in Europe. 15m was poor and slow, and wasted a lot of time jumping between 15m - 20m but never got any run going. 10m nothing was worked or heard. Crosschecking my score against ON4UN’s 2003 EU record of 165k points I was above this rate from the start up until the last 4 hours were the propagation just vanished, 40m and 80m were the only two bands I could hear any other signals on and the rate fell to something like 20q s per hour, congrats to P49X (W0YK) for his massive QSO count and to 9A5W, if there were no one else it looks like the old EU record may be broken. Thanks to all who called Logs to be uploaded to LOTW Chris (MI0LLL) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0EOP Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 6,510 Did ok with S&P but never had one station return my CQ's. Need to get a better antenna up in the air. Due to medical problems I was only on part of the time. Just got my 500Hz filter before contest and it improved operation of my FT-920 for RTTY. Thanks to everyone that worked me. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0KE Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 8,548 A real kluged up deal as I had to operate S&P only using 2 of the 6 canned msgs on the 756PROIII to do the sending and the built in decoder for RX and manually typing everything into N1MM as I could not get MMTTY to work within N1MM. If you tried to say "Hi Phil" etc and I didn't respond, it was because I just had two caned msgs, N0KE and QSL 599 CO that I could send. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0KM Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 6,450 Nothing heard on 10M. Frequent QSB on 15M. Very little PSK activity heard. First time using N1MM with MMTTY engine. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1BAA Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 176,700 I have GOT to get another radio and jump into this SO2R thing!! That was a bunch of fun! Thanks for QSOs.... 756 PRO 2 AL1200 6L15M @ 33 feet 5L20M @ 70 feet 2L40M @ 82 feet 80M dipole @ 60 feet 40M dipole at 30 feet FORCE 12 4BA at 60 feet Receiving bevs for 80 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1HRA Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 88,072 Just want to thank everyone that worked me. Never heard a MT station until about 5 minutes to go, he worked me on 40M. Missed DC and WY. HNY to all Bill N1HRA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1MGO Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 58,512 Great contest! I saw a lot of new calls, that is great. I also saw a lot less problems with off frequency calling, and bad exchanges. The new operators are getting much better at proper setup and operation. Where were DC and MT??? Equipment used: IC-756 PRO 2, Ameritron AL-80 at 500 watts, dipoles and an A3S at 35 feet. Software was Writelog version 10.65b, which ran perfectly! Thanks to the sponsors and all the people that worked me! Gordon - N1MGO (also known as Bambi when in VT) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2CU Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 49,883 WOW! That was fun. I'm new to RTTY and this was my first Roundup. Very pleased with the level of activity and the amount of DX I could work especially on 80m with low power. Overall, rates were as good as some CW contests and as I get more experienced with MMTTY expect higher scores ;^) Can't wait 'til the next one... FT1000MP, TH6DXX 50', 40m slopers E & W, 80m sloping 1/4 wave, K9AY loops, N1MM w/MMTTY. 73, Tom N2CU <>< ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2FF Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 55,530 I was an hour late getting into the contest as I hadn't finished replacing the 80M antenna and coax. It died last weekend and it was too cold to make repairs earlier. Made a lot more contacts than last year and even beat the score from 2 years ago. I did a lot more running than I usually do. There did not seem to be much going on on 15 anytime I took a look. My impression is that there was not a lot of DX in there except on 40M. It was intresting to hear the EU stations running JAs at about 2000 on Saturday. I heard no JAs on 20 this year and none of the usual ZLs on 40 in the morning. I am pretty happy with my results with one radio and low power. Missed ID, AK MT and DE. Got VT in the last hour of the contest! The were a number of ND, SD and WY stations to keep folks happy. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2WK Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 111,898 Thanks for all the Q's. Missed only MT for WAS. I was a little under the weather for this one. Just got back from S.C. Friday night where I must of caught a bug. Usually do a multi in the RU but decided not to because I didn't know what day I would be home. Lots of NEW RTTY stations in the log. 73, Wayne ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3KAE Class: M/S HP Total Score = 96,492 This year's "covert" effort did not use the N3XLS call. As usual, Scott, Joe, and I had a blast and learned even more about RTTY contesting. We entered as MS/HP instead of MS/LP. This year's score is our personal best. Biggest disappointment was the low number of Caribbean countries and apparent lack of MT and DC stations. It's kind of sad when only 4U1WB represents YOUR section. Our biggest surprise was the sheer number of EU stations answering our CQ's on 20m and 40m. Our postmortem assessment brought a few matters to light that will be addressed soon. Look for us to break well above the 100k next year. Hopefully by then the MT and DC Hams will wake up as well. HNY de Al, N3KAE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3KHK Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 374 Had to quit early RFI on all bands. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4CBK Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 56,088 Last year I had a nice 80-meter loop and a 20-meter Moxon at 50 feet. Made 429 contacts in a 15-hour effort. This year I operated from an apartment with a tangled-up 80-meter inverted-V doublet in the trees behind the building. I made 686 Q's in a 20 hour effort. I am surprised, but very happy with the result. Imagine what I could do with a 'real' station. Very nice to work so many fellow ACG'ers. Like Dan/W4NTI and Rick/K4TD both say, "You can't swing a dead cat these days without hitting an Alabama contest station!" Great contest and thanks to all for the Q's. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4CW Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 68,160 Best personal effort on RTTY ever. I found it exhausting! But it was fun working lots of old friends--some, unexpectedly in this mode! Thanks to all the ops that were patient with my lack of skill. 73, Bert ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4IL Class: M/S LP Total Score = 13,786 CONTEST: ARRL-RTTY CATEGORY: MULTI-ONE ALL LOW CLAIMED-SCORE: 13786 OPERATORS: N4IL, WB4YDL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4KG Class: M/S HP Total Score = 71,094 Well, THAT was interesting ! This was my debut into the ARRL RTTY Roundup. I started doing S&P Barefoot with NO Packet, looking for new states on RTTY (needed MT NV UT VT WY). It didn't take long to figure out that S&P on RTTY is Slow and Tedious compared with CW or SSB, even at the start. It is also apparent that the Big Signal wins the pileups. SO, Sunday morning I decided to RUN Europe on 20M, with the Amp. Running was a Whole Lot MORE FUN :-) not to mention the added bonus of having some of those missing mults call in. It's the Old Sweepstakes adage, go to the band most likely to have skip to the needed section(s), point an antenna in that direction, and CALL CQ. Works every time (eventually). I was about to loose faith until WC7V called in from MT at 2210Z to complete WAS (all 50 states) in the contest. Patrick (N9RV/7) - When are you going to take up RTTY? Missed Washington DC, VE6 VE8 VE9 (saw a spot but thought I would find him later - dumb!), VO1 VO2 VY0 VY1 Used Packet to find AL1G but stumbled upon AL2F later on my own. NA (logging program) forgot to include KH6 and KL7 in the Multiplier Lists! I ended up putting in WAY more time that I envisioned after getting 'hooked' by the multiplier chase. RTTY SS with DX mults thrown in and 2 rest periods. Neat concept. Tom N4KG in North Alabama ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5KWN Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 71,440 Good band conditions and a very great turnout of RTTY operators. One good contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5UWY Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 13,965 WANTED: Sun spots!!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5ZM Class: M/S LP Total Score = 128,912 Our score is off from last year but we did better with our QSO total. We had a few nice surprises during our CQ runs with calls from TA1DX, TR8CA, V73RY, CN8IG, EA8OM and SV9CVY that stand out among the many others. We had a slow start on 15M. As you can see by the QSO count this low power station was intimidated by the crowd on 20M. We had a difficult time with S&P on 20 with so many HP stations it was hard to be heard and to copy stations. Our DX multipliers were down by 14 from last year mostly due to our poor performance on 20M. We held our own on 40M mostly due to the Force12 MAG240N equalizer. Hi Hi. The conditions here were good on 80M as the band was very quiet here. Thanks for all the Q's and especially thanks to those who hung in there answering all our requests for repeats. Earl (N5ZM) and Glenn (N5RN) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6CK Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 60,384 Very fun contest! Started off using the emergency generator... no PG&E power until after several hours after the start. QRO when PG&E was available. How about those several CW ops on 40M! Plunked right down between mark and space... wonder if those callsigns are right! Was W8HCS running an old teleprinter machine? Cool! My apologies for several dropped Q's. Utility power was sporadic at times. Thanks for all the Q's! 73 Greg ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6RC Class: M/S HP Total Score = 66,312 Great condx. Couldn't keep awake late enough to work everyone. Friday's wind in NorCal adjusted one antenna. Still worked well tough. Thx for all the QSOs. K6TD for the N6RC team. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6XT Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 31,930 This was my second attempt at Ru RTTY. I hope to improve my score next time. I'm still learning to Rtty contesting. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7ON Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 14,152 Rig: Elecraft K2/100 Antennas: 80m inverted-L, 20m vertical dipole, 40m hidden loop. Solely a pass-out-Nevada contest. I believe K7XC was active, and perhaps others as well. Heavy rain and snow over the weekend, as well as high winds, limited what antennas I could put up. An all-band effort wasn't possible this year. It's usually easy to go outside and erect my CC&R'd antennas. This contest marked the first time I've kept a National Weather Service radar image on-screen to judge the best times for antenna work. As always, it was nice working so many familiar callsigns. 73, John ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8YA Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 11,741 Great contest lots of fun!!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8YYS Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 24,696 This was the first contest in several years that I have been able to sit down and really give some decent time to. It really was nice to see a lot of the old calls on the screen, plus lots of new ones. The bands surely were crowded, and I guess there will never be enough room in the "alloted" sub-band for all stations to crowd into, and there really should be no reason we should have to. All modes spread out during a contest with small regard for the sub-bands, they just go at it:-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N9LAH Class: M/S LP Total Score = 75,072 Wow, first contest from the new QTH with the new tower/antennas. Tennadyne T6 up at 56 feet with inverted V's for 40 and 80. Really love working RTTY with N1MM. John, W9ILY, did a great job of getting it setup and working correctly in short time and it performed flawlessly I think. There were a couple of glitches but most of that I feel can be blamed on being tired. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N9TF Class: M/S LP Total Score = 16,896 This is my third RTTY RU, and I had a good time. I wasn't able to spend as much time as I would have liked, but I got just enough time in to learn a bit more about operating RTTY in a contest. My son KC9ETU, was home on leave from the Navy, so he helped in the shack off and on. It was great to spend some HAM time with him!! He shipped back out today. Running low power (50 watts) to low (35') loaded (Alpha Delta) dipoles on 40 and 80, and a mini triband (MA5B) on 15 and 20, made for quite a challenge. I tried to run a couple of times on 40 and 80, but was crowded out by stronger stations that apparently did not hear my puny signal! So, the contest for me was 99.9% S&P, with a lot of time spent on many DX stations just trying to work. It was a bit frustrating at times to wait in line for a DX station that I could hear quite well, just waiting for the crowds to thin out to my layer. A lot of times that never happened! Now that I feel a bit more comfortable handling the MMTTY macros, and locking on a signal quickly, I will work on figuring out how to import the MMTTY log into my Win-Eqf log so I don't have to keep clicking back and forth between the two programs! Lots of really good scores out there. Nice to see a lot of you that I worked. I'll be back again next year. Station conditions: TS-2000 set to 50 watts out: DX-DD, DX-LB and DX-B Alpha Delta wires at 35', MA5B at 37' 73 Gene N9TF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ND2T Class: M/S HP Total Score = 120,621 A very enjoyable contest again this year. Shared station with W6YX ops and alternated between bands and antenna for various opportunities. NA comprised about 84% of contacts, Asia 12% and the rest balanced over the other areas. EU was lowest at .5%. Thanks for all the spots and Qs, see you again next year. 73, de N6CCH aka Rebar ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NN7SS Class: M/S LP Total Score = 38,850 Well, I was stuck at the auto repair place and missed the first 2.5 hrs! Also, I was setup for Multi-op, but it turned out it was only going to be me, so I did my best as a "solo-multi" using a few packet spots, but I was stuck with the limit of 6 band changes per hour. I'd sprint along on two radios until I'd used up my 6 changes, then sit on a single band the rest of the hour. I needed my sleep to recover from travel, auto repairs, and to be rested for upcoming work, so I didn't stay up late. Despite all that, I made four times the QSOs of last years low power Multi winner in NW Division - so maybe I'll get a plaque! North America was 95% of my QSOs. Sure was tough to get a run going with low power, I'd usually have to go back to S&P. Lots of new callsigns, lots of great ops - thanks for the fun! NN7SS (op K6UFO Mark) Equipment: Two Yaesu FT-1000MPs 3-el SteppIR at 51' C3 Tribander at 55' Cushcraft 40-2CD yagi at 50' 80-meter half-sloper NE and SE beverage receiving antennas Two TopTen Band decoders, two ICE-419 filters Coax stub filters for 80, 40, 20 Microham 2x6 antenna switch Writelog software, MMTTY decoder. QSO by hour and band. 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm OffTime D1-2000Z - - 6 8 - 14 14 D1-2100Z - - 46 8 - 54 68 D1-2200Z - - 23 2 1 26 94 32 D1-2300Z - - 6 - - 6 100 53 D2-0000Z ---+- 4 38 ---+- ---+- 42 142 D2-0100Z - 18 - - - 18 160 36 D2-0200Z 12 21 - - - 33 193 D2-0300Z 2 11 - - - 13 206 35 D2-0400Z 31 7 - - - 38 244 14 D2-0500Z - - - - - 0 244 60 D2-0600Z - - - - - 0 244 60 D2-0700Z - - - - - 0 244 60 D2-0800Z ---+- ---+- ---+- ---+- ---+- 0 244 60 D2-0900Z - - - - - 0 244 60 D2-1000Z - - - - - 0 244 60 D2-1100Z - - - - - 0 244 60 D2-1200Z - - - - - 0 244 60 D2-1300Z - - - - - 0 244 60 D2-1400Z - - - - - 0 244 60 D2-1500Z - - - - - 0 244 60 D2-1600Z ---+- ---+- 2 7 ---+- 9 253 41 D2-1700Z - - 67 7 - 74 327 D2-1800Z - - 13 4 - 17 344 47 D2-1900Z - - 36 12 - 48 392 11 D2-2000Z - - 17 7 - 24 416 36 D2-2100Z - - 4 34 1 39 455 D2-2200Z - 1 43 7 - 51 506 D2-2300Z - 9 40 - - 49 555 Total: 45 71 341 96 2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NP3D/W1 Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 158,040 Rig : K1TTT Super Station Antennas : K1TTT Super Station Soapbox : I want to thank Dave, K1TTT for letting me use his Super Station one more time. Propagation was good on all bands, except 10 meters, even 15 meters band was ok. Two years ago I won WMA Division Plaque relatively easy and hoped to do it again this year. But, to a nice surprise, I failed, thanks to Dennis W1UE who worked from W1KM and showed a Super Result! Also Jose N1BAA did a great job. We were going head to head with Jose within most of the time, but then Jose turned on his “secret Engine” or something happened and I was behind on over 230 Q’s at the end. Congrats, Jose! I would like that every RTTY Contester used the “Real Time Score Board” when you can see your and everyone’s results and everybody who participate can view your result in REAL time! This is a great program, guys, take a look on it. This program keeps you running and gets you lots of adrenaline. Thanks to all who answered my calls. This was a great Contest, I love ARRL RU RTTY. One thing, I really do not understand (well more then one to be exact). I do not understand how it is possible to make 1843 Q’s using two 100 watts radios and modest antennas? I asked this question from myself last year. Then imagine if you are making 1843 Q’s using 100 watts, then how great would be your score if you upgrade your category and go for High power using 1500 watts? Wow, that station should be making maybe 5000 or 6000 QSO’s. This is time to upgrade and shake the world with such a great score, I think. 73’s to all and see you all in the next one. Andrei NP3D/W1 for ARRL RU RTTY. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OH2BP Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 20,100 Not very much to expect, just testing the equipment set-up. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OH6BG Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 6,328 My first RTTY contest ever :) 99.99% S&P just a few hours... Tnx for QSOs! Jari ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OH8GZN Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 5,850 Again small effort for contest. Propagation was good before saturday evening and sunday, when aurora took over. CU in next test! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OL6X Class: M/S HP Total Score = 145,912 My first RTTY Round-Up, Taking the off time at the beginning of the event probably wasn't the best choice, the higher bands weren't in good shape on sunday. Worked 546 x NA, 534 x EU, 94 x AS, 12 x SA and 8 x OC. It was nice to work VK6HD on 80,40 and 15m. Thanks to everyone for calling and CU in the next one. 73's Daniel OL6X ( OK1DIG) RIG : IC756PROIII + OM Power PA ANTs: 80m Delta loop @ 25m + NVIS dipole 40m 4el yagi @ 30m + dipole 20m 5el yagi @ 24m 15m 6el yagi @ 22m 10m 3el yagi @ 15m RX ants: 4sq K9AY DXE RFS-2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ON4ATW Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 57,434 Used MMTTY as an engine together with N1MM for the first time. It worked great! Took me some time to get the macros configured in a right manner but after that it worked like a snap. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: P49X Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 364,064 This claimed score falls short of my log-checked score from 2007 that set a new world SO HP record. So, if the record is broken again this year, it won’t be P49X. My QSO and multiplier totals were both disappointing. It was clear from my 2007 RTTY Round-Up experience that achieving 3000 log-checked contacts is quite doable. This year, for the first time, I did have the faint satisfaction of handing out serial number 3002, but that corresponds to an actual duped QSO total of 2936 which will undoubtedly be lowered further after log-checking. But, even with current solar conditions, the ever-increasing number of Round-Up participants provides locations like Aruba the opportunity to exceed 3000 contacts. The return of 10 meters and hopefully larger participation in the future will significantly improve this opportunity further. Who knows how far it can go, though? Just three years ago, P43P broke the 2000 QSO barrier for the first time and already this year at least two US/VE 3830 postings have over 2000 contacts. I take full responsibility, of course, for failing to exploit the QSO opportunity this year. I trailed my 2007 rate from the starting bell and clawed my way toward the cross-over point in the 19Z hour Sunday when the QSO totals of the two years coincided. My highest clock-hour rate was the second hour at 186, down from my highs of 193 and 190 respectively in the first two hours of 2007. On the plus side, though, the Sunday rates were outstanding this year, keeping full pace with Saturday rates. RTTY Round-Up is truly a 24-hour rate-fest and quite a contrast to the November Sweepstakes from Northern California with its Sunday doldrums! Ten less multipliers showed up in this year’s log. I missed Alaska and Newfoundland, and of course the three elusive Northern Canadian provinces. I did hear a few mults that I missed, e.g., CT9 and LU, but never heard Oceania mults, not even ZL or VK. In my one hour early morning stint on 40 and 80 that should net Oceania mults, I found none, but surprisingly had a few new European mults call in. I called ZX2B for a few minutes to no avail, but fortunately he called in to me later as did another PY. On the plus side, there were a few more African mults that called in (TR, CN, ZS, etc.) and particularly pleasing were the two VU’s that were amazingly strong, both on 40 meters. With my ratio of 24 QSOs/mult and an average QSO rate of over 2/minute it doesn’t pay to abandon one of my two run frequencies to search around for mults. Especially considering that many mults don’t CQ, but instead answer running stations like my own. One of the best ways to collect multipliers is having a run presence on the bands. However, in the future, I plan to set-up a separate RTTY decoder on the built-in second receiver in each radio to be able to search my run bands for needed mults. Then, it is easy enough to interleave grabbing these missing mults with running. Speaking of run frequencies, when I started into my last operating session at 1330Z Sunday, I found the needed NS mult with VE9DX auto-CQing on 14108. Andy was loud here and only getting a response to one of every ten CQs. I called and called but he just CQ’d back to me! However, he ultimately gave me something just as valuable when he got bored and left the frequency. A couple stations then called me for a contact and so the only gracious thing to do was take over the frequency which I held for the next eight hours. Thanks, Andy! (It was a great frequency, nicely cleared out with your early morning CQing and a bit removed from the crowded alley down around ’85.) You never did come back to work me there, but did find me Sunday evening on 40 and fortunately VE9GJ called in on 15 and 20 during the day. I didn’t feel “in the groove” until mid-morning Sunday when the rates began exceeding most of the Saturday rates. It then seemed possible that I might close the gap with my prior year’s cumulative QSO total. I even hoped that I might exceed 3000 far enough to clear log-checking, but that was not to be. Once 15 dropped off Sunday evening and I went to 40, I just couldn’t sustain 130/hour rates. 40 was great, though, with European signals extremely strong. Too bad there weren’t more of them operating. Although there seemed to be an endless supply of IK3 stations. My Saturday troubles were part psychological and part station. I was bummed at not being able to get an initial clock-hour-rate exceeding 200. In fact, since it was significantly lower than 2007, this portended the strong potential for a lower QSO total overall. I ran until 1:30am local time, 80 minutes past my 2007 break time, yet had 80 less contacts in the log. Then, there were the station problems. In the third hour, the ‘A’ side of the station, which was on 15 meters at the time, suddenly had an infinite SWR. Bummer—we’d had the 15-meter Yagi feedline open up during CQWW WPX CW last May, so I figured the wind had returned that problem to me. Since it was about time to move from 15 to 40, I cleverly decided that was the thing to do since my rhythm was interrupted anyway on that radio. Punch the 40 meter button on the ProII and that side instantly is on 40. Find a clear frequency around 7050, drop my call sign in and … Oops! Same problem. Oh crap! I’ve got more than a rhythm problem now. I need to be running 180/hour on 20 and 40 but apparently one half of the SixPak or its cabling is broken. As a “single-op”, I now must stop operating entirely for a few minutes of down time to move the 40 meter coax from the SixPak and put it directly on the Alpha. OK, get going again and later move the ‘B’ side from 20 to 80. In the back of my mind, I’m already planning what, if anything, I can/should do on my official break to deal with this equipment problem for the remainder of the contest. Then …. the room goes dark and my first thought is, great, a power failure and there’s no back-up generator. But, wait, I’m still working stations even though it is too dark to see the keyboard keys. Oh, OK, just a simple matter of the room light. Could be a fuse, could be the light bulb. But, there’s no other light source in the room at the time, so another unscheduled interruption of prime time in necessary to get find some light. So, I once again left both run frequencies to find a lamp, and by the way, take a quick bathroom break since my rising anxiety was not conducive to holding my bladder. My already lower QSO rate kept dropping as these events unfolded and I took my first break significantly behind last year’s QSO total. Needless to say, I was not in the same euphoric state-of-mind at this time compared to prior years. OK, well decades of Sweepstakes experience served me well, because I know how to suck it up and tough out Sunday. I vowed to extract every possible QSO from the bands during the remainder of the contest period. Sunday was a much better day. During my break, I rewired the station during to get around the problem on the ‘A’ side, and did some cursory troubleshooting. I thought I was beginning to zero in on the problem, when all of a sudden it disappeared entirely, never to return again during the contest. While I was still skittish about the ‘A’ side, it still felt good to have everything working. Then, the rate instantly went to 150/hour from the first CQ in the morning and didn’t drop off until 15 died and I moved to 40 for the last two hours. I still had 13 minutes of off-time to take at the end because my two breaks had already been used. I wanted this anyway because the last two hours have been the slowest historically. As soon as my on-time hit 24:00 hours, I stopped transmitting. So, the best part of contests is operating, not the results. ARRL RTTY Round-Up is a ton of fun to operate, especially as P49X. You folks gave me a heck of a workout and provided enough QSO arrival rate to challenge my skills to capitalize on it. Thanks too for seeking me out on other bands even after you already had the P4 multiplier. I usually announce my other run frequency if we haven’t worked there and a number of you went there within the minute. There were also a large portion of you who got the sweep of all four bands. Finally, there were a few DX stations gave me serial #1 on Saturday and #2 and #3 on Sunday, obviously casual ops chasing P4 on RTTY. All this adds up to a fun time for me. Again, thanks to everyone. 73, Ed – P49X (W0YK) 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total % NA 222 545 777 718 0 2262 77.0 EU 72 268 197 84 0 621 21.2 OC 1 0 1 5 0 7 0.2 AF 0 1 4 2 0 7 0.2 AS 1 12 7 2 0 22 0.7 SA 2 4 5 6 0 17 0.6 QSO/Sta+Prov+Dx by hour and band Hour 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm OffTime D1-1800Z - - 73/27 97/27 - 170/54 170/54 D1-1900Z - - 86/15 100/4 - 186/19 356/73 D1-2000Z - 2/2 86/4 71/5 - 159/11 515/84 D1-2100Z - 61/3 82/5 - - 143/8 658/92 D1-2200Z - 59/4 69/1 - - 128/5 786/97 D1-2300Z 19/0 65/2 20/0 - - 104/2 890/99 D2-0000Z 31/0 76/3 --+-- --+-- --+-- 107/3 997/102 D2-0100Z 35/0 80/2 - - - 115/2 1112/104 D2-0200Z 36/0 69/1 - - - 105/1 1217/105 D2-0300Z 39/2 65/2 - - - 104/4 1321/109 D2-0400Z 47/0 61/1 - - - 108/1 1429/110 D2-0500Z 47/0 59/0 - - - 106/0 1535/110 D2-0600Z 17/0 34/1 - - - 51/1 1586/111 29 D2-0700Z - - - - - 0/0 1586/111 60 D2-0800Z 17/0 34/2 --+-- --+-- --+-- 51/2 1637/113 25 D2-0900Z 10/0 23/0 - - - 33/0 1670/113 33 D2-1000Z - - - - - 0/0 1670/113 60 D2-1100Z - - - - - 0/0 1670/113 60 D2-1200Z - - - - - 0/0 1670/113 60 D2-1300Z - - 37/0 40/1 - 77/1 1747/114 20 D2-1400Z - - 66/0 68/1 - 134/1 1881/115 D2-1500Z - - 83/0 78/0 - 161/0 2042/115 D2-1600Z --+-- --+-- 76/0 80/1 --+-- 156/1 2198/116 D2-1700Z - - 56/0 62/1 - 118/1 2316/117 D2-1800Z - - 57/1 70/1 - 127/2 2443/119 D2-1900Z - - 56/0 70/0 - 126/0 2569/119 D2-2000Z - - 50/1 60/2 - 110/3 2679/122 D2-2100Z - 24/0 45/0 21/0 - 90/0 2769/122 D2-2200Z - 57/1 24/0 - - 81/1 2850/123 D2-2300Z - 61/1 25/0 - - 86/1 2936/124 Total: 298/2 830/25 991/54 817/43 0/0 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S53M Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 72,864 THANKS. Miha / S51FB ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S56A Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 87,662 Nice condx on 40/80m, some USA on 15m. 73 de Mario, S56A ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SM3JUR Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 7,138 Tnx fb test Not so good conds but ok see you in 2009 sm3jur/Bennthy ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: UT3HWW Class: M/S LP Total Score = 82,353 TRX home made with wires antennas: 80m - Inverted V 40m - Delta loop 20m - 2el Delta loop fixed to west 15m - 2el Delta loop fixed to west 10m - slopped 1/2 dipole Good activity in contest, many thanks who calling me and special gratitude to LZ9R team for nice competition for last 3 years in this contest. See you next time... 73, Andrei (UZ7HO) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: UY7C Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 35,210 IC 746 + wires. Tnx to all for QSO's. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA1CHP Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 156,486 Contest would be more fun if you could use the DX cluster without going into the Mult-Op class. If you wanted to hunt Mults you could kiss your run FQ goodbye, by the time you got back it was occupied. At least all the equip held together and I got a new one on RTTY. Had the usual run ins with idiotic CW ops on 40 meters, I guess they have the collective intelligence of a gnat. Anyway thanks for all the Q's and see you in the next one. Rich VA1CHP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA2UP Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 102,078 Thanks for working me. Good fun and low bands in great shape made for vy nice weekend. HNY all. Fabi ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3DX Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 127,794 2008 vs 2007 140 less qsos this year 11 less countries 1 less state/prov Coolest qso , was ZC4LI calling me on 80 meters... Missed Nevada and Montanna and VO1 plus the real hard ones up north as well. I hate waiting for SO2R guys to answer back ...... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA7ST Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 60,952 Gear: * FT-2000 + SB221 @ 500W * N1MM + MMTTY * Single 80M delta loop pointing east * 40M half-squares x 2 * 40M phased verticals -- raised radials * 3 ele. tribander at 45' Flux: 79 | Ap: 14 | Kp: 3 Saturday was hard work, while Sunday was pleasure. Each year I hope for a decent EU opening on 20M and for the past three years at least, there has not been one. Worked a pair each of G, F, and that's it. There was no meaningful polar path this weekend from here, so those extra non-NA mults are in the tank. Last year, I quipped "Hope for better conditions next year with sunspots on the way back." Well, it's a year later and nothing has changed. Well, except the official start of Cycle 24 according to this weekend's report from SIDC (RWC Belgium): "The first solar-cycle-24 sunspot group is present." By next year, we should be well underway! Considered going LP after last year's HP effort produced far below my 100w effort in 2006. I chose to run the amp and the new radio helped do more than last year, but still below 2006 LP in Qs, DX mults and score. (Had 55 S/Ps this year, better than usual... missed Maine for WAS). Took three hours off on Saturday afternoon as 20M was brutal, 15M dead, and low bands not yet alive here. Took a few sundry breaks, and four hours off for sleep from 12:30 to 4:30 a.m. Total time on was just shy of 18 hours. Sunday morning, 40M was going well at 4:30 a.m. Pacific (1230z). Stayed on till 1530 then napped for a couple hours -- by 1800z 20M was hopping and at 1915z I went to 15M to find it wide open to all of NA. Ran about 100 stations in 1.5 hours, surprised at how good the band was. Wished for better conditions, but can't complain about the antennas -- not even the tribander, which didn't kick up too much fuss running HP this time out. FT-2000 is a pleasure to use on the packed bands. Posted to Live Scores -- http://www.getscores.org/ -- and it was great fun watching the scores move. More people are posting these days, but even more participation would be great. Thanks to everyone who called in. See you all in the next one! Year-over-year performance review: 2008 Band QSOs Pts Sta Cty HIGH POWER 3.5 151 151 4 0 Full-size delta loop 7 225 225 11 5 Half-squares E-W + N-S 14 308 308 36 13 Tribander at 45' 21 118 118 4 3 Total 802 802 55 21 Raw : 60,952 2007 Band QSOs Pts Sta Cty HIGH POWER 3.5 129 129 3 0 Full-size delta loop 7 153 153 6 5 Pair of 40M delta loops 14 392 392 39 11 21 109 109 5 3 Total 783 783 53 19 Raw : 56,376 2006 Band QSOs Pts Sta Cty LOW POWER 3.5 156 156 5 0 Pair of delta loop 7 206 206 6 1 Pair of 40M delta loops 14 322 322 16 21 21 142 142 27 8 Total 826 826 54 30 Raw : 69,384 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE1OP Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 116,000 Had a hard time staying interested in this one...Not being able to use Telnet makes it a lot less interesting for me...Especially at this point in the cycle...Drives me nuts to have to enter the MULTI-OP category just because Telnet is on, but I don't make the rules...Maybe when Telnet sites can send op's over to my house to work stations for me when I sleep, I'll agree with it... Started off great, 324 QSO's in the log and 47 states/prov's worked in the first 3 hours on 15/20...Condx were great, I felt loud with only 90 watts...Then someone turned off 20 m...Just DIED...Off to 40 I went, S8 noise, something in the neighbourhood is dirty...Off to 80, S8 noise, but signals were strong enough to work stations...Shut down with 500 QSO's...40 was a complete washout for me this weekend...10 QSO's...Ugh... Sunday was off and on, told myself I would shoot for 1000 Q's and quit, which is what I did... Would have liked to find DC, MT and AB, but not one heard... Thanks for the calls, apologies to those who called on 40/80 with no reply, I just couldn't hear you over the noise... CU on NAQP CW next weekend... 73, Scott VE1OP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE2FU Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 9,702 THIS ONE WAS MORE AN AFTER HOLIDAY'S FAMILY WEEK-END! RIG: TS-480SAT ANT: A3S-G5RV SOFTWARE: MixW 2.18 All QSO uploaded on EQSL.CC see qrz.com for info 73' Happy New Year PHIL VE2FU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE2RYY Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 84,552 No time for the 80M and 40M bands....Family....Chores....Meals....etc etc Thanks to all. Next Year will be involved in all the contest time... Happy New Year NOEL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3FH Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 30,456 TS-940S R5 and dipoles N1MM Logger V7.12.6 73, Julio VE3FH ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3JI Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 35,568 What a great RTTY Test, fun as always ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3MGY Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 7,840 I am not set up for contesting on RTTY at all. I was never interested in RTTY contesting until I bought my Icom 756 PIII which will decode RTTY and send short messages that are enterd into its memory banks beforehand. There is no live keyboard capability so you are limited to S&P only. Still its lots of fun for a casual entry between the other contests and its very quiet which means its XYL friendly hi hi. 73 Brian VE3MGY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3SS Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 8,100 Work and family commitments made this a part time effort. I am really enjoying these RTTY contests now. I just need to find more time for them!! There was lots of activity to be found. Thanks to all who worked me. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3TMT Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 12,430 Despite limited operating time had great fun. So many stations. Great fun with 100W and a vertical! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE4EAR Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 33,396 Who invited Murphy! Spent an hour Friday evening making sure the station was working and had about 50 practise Q's. Everything was working 100%. 15 minutes before the start. I did a reset of my SCS-PTC controller and the power switch failed! I manged to rig something up with duct tape to keep it on but lost nearly a hour at the start. About an hour into it and my CRT died in the middle of a QSO. Found if I smacked it the right way in the right spot, it would come back to life...another item for repair! Some family commitments stole several more hours Saturday evening but I figured I would get in on the action on 80 later in the evening. After a couple hours operating, Murphy strikes again, violent stomach flu. Sparing you the details. was not able to get back on the air in less than stellar condition until early Sunday afternoon. Nice to see 15m opened here to CA and Mexico, but missed I was too late for east coast openings. Again too late for any EU openings on 20m on Sunday morning, so country count was way down. From I was able to see, conditions on 80/40/20 were excellent and the bands were packed. I don't think I can recall hearing 20m crammed with RTTY signals from 14.050 to 14.140 before. Thanks again for your patience and I apologize for not being in better form! I can now understand how others feel when Murphy strikes right at contest time. 73 C U in the next one! Ed VE4EAR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE5CPU Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 63,411 An improvement over last year in terms of hours in the chair and total calls worked, but still a major struggle to get country mults this far inland with a low solar flux. This is a familiar problem from VE5land in many contests, shared by others in the central plains area. Overall the rate was surprisingly consistent, although the A going to 17 did not help a lot during the second half of the contest. If conditions on 15 had been just a bit better or I had better antennas for 80, I could have hit a 1,000 Q's. As always, thanks to those who dropped by to exchange contacts and a special thanks to all the casual ops who get on to hand out a few QSOs. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE7CF Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 36,244 One of my favorite contests. But again plagued by lack of Eu signals here on the west coast. Making operation on the lower bands, 40 and 80, very difficult was the QRN from my next door neighbour's lo-voltage halogen lighting system - a S9+ qrn that made hearing weak signals a real challenge. But 15 meters was open for a while partially making up for the lower bands. Can't wait for the upswing in the solar cycle! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE7FO Class: M/S LP Total Score = 43,946 Well, this was a nice domestic contest. Lots of activity from NA but almost none from any where else. Only heard 2 Eu and didn't work any. Only one op but used spots which makes me M/S. Shouldn't have been much of a problem working VE7 as there were at least ten of us on that I heard. Sadly, though, the big guns of VE7UF, VE7SV and VE7GL appeared to be silent. I was 2 hours late getting started and that, coupled with my 6 hrs sleep, meant I only got in 22 of the 24 hours. No great calamities or triumphs to report. I did have a really nice 2.5 hr run on 20 which netted 150 Qs which was very gratifying. I just love it when that happens. Missed MT and DC for WAS. Tried something new (for me) with N1MM. Set it up so that a right click does the same thing as hitting Enter. Man, is this slick or what? Left click a call to select it. Right click sends my exchange. Left click on his exchange. Right click sends TU QRZ and logs the Q. No jumping back and forth between the keyboard and the mouse. Makes for really crisp operating. If you couldn't see my fingers you'd swear I wasn't doing a thing. There seemed to be a lot of newbies on that weren't in the Master.dta. Glad to see you guys and hope you had fun. Thanks for the Qs everyone. 73, Jim VE7FO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VO1TTY Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 17,064 Wasn't really into this one .... low band antennas messed up due to Xmas storms ....couldn't operate 80M at all. Low interest and too many distractions. I take exception to VA1CHP's soapbox comments about "idiotic 40M CW ops"....don't know why he would make such a comment. It is usually the RTTY contesters who infringe on CW and phone subbands and are the cause of interfernce problems during RTTY contests not the other way around. RTTY is very inefficient as a contesting mode and the contest weekend spread is the cause of QRM to CW ops!! Log now on LotW & eQSL. Band QSOs Pts Sta Cty 7 4 4 0 2 14 180 180 28 25 21 53 53 13 4 Total 237 237 41 31 Score: 17,064 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VY2LI Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 13,115 Not much opportunity to operate in this one.In and out of shack,sporadically,until 20:00 Sunday when got to do a bit of running on 20.Of course,can't count the 20 Qs I logged Friday night,which I worked after arriving home around 11:30 thinking the contest started at 00:00 Sat.Oops,was I red-faced.Wait a minute, what about the 20 stations I worked!!!??? Sorry, about that guys.Spent much of the weekend visiting with my daughter, who is leaving for a four-month visit to Australia,so this one did not take priority.Hope we got in your log and HNY from VY2-land.73,Bill ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VY2SS Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 33,012 Severe winter storms left my antennas in a shambles. A cable let go and the wind took away the top 30 feet of my 80M vertical. Got that back up in time for the contest but it was the only antenna that was working properly. Fighting with snow and chest cold kept me away from keys. Sucks because this is my favorite contest. Thanks to those who could hear me well enough for a QSO! Happy New Year. -Robby ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0BH Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 10,653 Just played with the Decode and Memory functions on the rig .. all S&P since I don't have a keyboard interface. LOTS of activity, and it was great to have 15 open for so long. Heard 48/50 states (missing IA and MT) although some were S&P and I had no way to catch them. Worked BC SK ON QC NS NB north of the border. An enjoyable way to start the New Year! 73, Bob, w0bh ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0ETT Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 13,750 First time ever for me on RTTY. So, spent the many hours trying to figure out how to operate the system and microham interface that Mike W0MU was installed for me. It seemed challenging for me to first find someone calling cq and then set up exactly on his frequency in order to call the station. If I managed to get off his frequency slightly, I would get gobbledy-gook requiring me to ask for an "Again" repeat. My RTTY setup (IC756pro3 and microham interface) didn't seem too sensitive as I couldn't get many stations under s8 or 9 to come back to me. While there were many loud signals on 80m, I had the most difficulty tuning in stations on that band, only made 10 Qs. Will have to ask the local RTTYers if theres a way to tune more easily and to work the weaker ones (less than s8!). Almost at the end, I tried some CQs and was rewarded with a pretty good run of about 25-30 stations. Despite that run, I was about 85% S&P in the test. Next time I'll try to run more... After doing this RTTY contest, I can tell that its not going to replace CW for me, tho I did enjoy trying a new mode out. Nice to work GMCCers W0MU, K0FX and K0EU in the contest. Heard KO7X but couldn't get his attention with my LP signal. Heard someone work K0UK but couldn't hear Bill. 73 Ken, W0ETT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0LM Class: M/S HP Total Score = 16,058 Part-time effort due to houseguests for the weekend. Mostly S/P, although I was able to run on 40 Sunday afternoon. Poor propogation into the black hole on 10/15 during the times I was on. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0LSD Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 4,386 Small 15 meter only entry. 15 is still quite sporatic with stations in and out. Struggled mightily for 102 q's. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0MU Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 92,905 This is my first RU. I got a late start as I just got back in town. Worked ND late and never did hear MT, NF, NWT, NU, LB or YT. We did not have very good openings to EU on 20 or 40. 80 was not as good as I was hoping. Activity really faded around 0600. 15 was open now and then but just not enough people. Never looked at 10m. Nice surprises was having V73 and ZS2 call me. I was also called by some EU late on 40m which was nice. This was great SO2R training. RTTY and SO2R go together very well. I would guess I made over 100 2nd radio contacts. It is hard to keep track as I had both radios on all the bands. Most of the ops were great. I only had a few instances of interference and people trying to hijack the dx calling me. Thanks for all the contacts! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0PC Class: M/S LP Total Score = 19,200 We had major radio and computer interface problems. Lost the first 5 hours getting something to run. Main radios were in the repair shop. Still had a great time teaching contesting to the group. I know we made some mistakes as people were getting familiar with what was going on. Thanks for all the Qs and see you on the next one. 73 de W0PC (Rick) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0SD Class: M/S HP Total Score = 185,820 Thanks everyone for working us. Look for us next year please. I would love to have this station on the east coast to see how many DX multipliers I could work. Tough going here always! Radios FT-1000D & IC-756 ProII Timewave TNC's Amplifiers 8877 & Alpha 99 Writelog software networked, worked great Antenna's 80 dipole 180 feet high 80 dipole 90 feet high 80 1/4 wave vertical, insulated base 130 radials 40 2 el full size quad, middle height 90 feet fixed east 40 3 el full size beam, rotatable at 70 feet 20 Two 4 el 204ba stacked at 60 and 140 feet feed in phase or separately and rotated separately 15 5 el 115CA at 115 ft 10 5 el 105CA at 200 ft. Mainly 7/8" heliax at 20M and above. 3 beverages, tri-bander and 80 horizontsl loop for recieve onlyI QSO/Sta+Prov+Dx by hour and band Hour 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm OffTime D1-1800Z - - 64/28 3/3 - 67/31 67/31 D1-1900Z - - 94/9 3/3 - 97/12 164/43 D1-2000Z - - 85/6 3/3 - 88/9 252/52 D1-2100Z - 1/1 64/2 1/0 - 66/3 318/55 D1-2200Z - 29/5 31/3 - - 60/8 378/63 D1-2300Z - 70/5 2/2 - - 72/7 450/70 D2-0000Z 1/1 70/1 --+-- --+-- --+-- 71/2 521/72 D2-0100Z 3/2 63/1 - - - 66/3 587/75 D2-0200Z 107/4 3/1 - - - 110/5 697/80 D2-0300Z 90/2 3/1 - - - 93/3 790/83 D2-0400Z 77/1 3/1 - - - 80/2 870/85 D2-0500Z 66/0 4/0 - - - 70/0 940/85 D2-0600Z 46/0 3/0 - - - 49/0 989/85 D2-0700Z 24/2 11/1 - - - 35/3 1024/88 D2-0800Z --+-- 4/0 --+-- --+-- --+-- 4/0 1028/88 56 D2-0900Z - - - - - 0/0 1028/88 60 D2-1000Z - - - - - 0/0 1028/88 60 D2-1100Z - - - - - 0/0 1028/88 60 D2-1200Z - - - - - 0/0 1028/88 60 D2-1300Z - - - - - 0/0 1028/88 60 D2-1400Z 18/0 27/0 11/3 - - 56/3 1084/91 5 D2-1500Z - - 41/7 3/1 - 44/8 1128/99 D2-1600Z --+-- --+-- 70/3 2/0 --+-- 72/3 1200/102 D2-1700Z - - 72/3 3/0 - 75/3 1275/105 D2-1800Z - - 47/0 9/1 - 56/1 1331/106 D2-1900Z - - 3/0 55/0 - 58/0 1389/106 D2-2000Z - - 6/2 37/2 - 43/4 1432/110 D2-2100Z - 32/1 30/2 - - 62/3 1494/113 D2-2200Z - 38/0 17/0 - - 55/0 1549/113 D2-2300Z - 76/1 5/0 - - 81/1 1630/114 Total: 432/12 437/19 642/70 119/13 0/0 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total % NA 423 418 533 103 0 1477 90.6 SA 0 3 4 10 0 17 1.0 EU 7 13 84 0 0 104 6.4 AF 1 2 5 0 0 8 0.5 OC 1 0 2 6 0 9 0.6 AS 0 1 14 0 0 15 0.9 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total 9A 2 2 CM 1 1 CN 2 2 CT 2 1 3 CT3 1 1 2 CX 1 2 3 DL 1 12 13 EA 1 2 4 7 EA6 1 1 EA8 1 1 EU 1 1 F 1 2 6 9 FG 1 1 G 1 10 11 GI 1 1 GJ 1 1 GW 1 1 HB 3 3 HC 1 1 HI 1 1 2 HK 1 1 2 HP 1 1 HR 1 1 2 I 1 1 15 17 J3 1 1 2 J6 1 1 JA 1 13 14 K 385 386 477 94 1342 KH6 1 2 2 5 KL 2 2 KP4 3 1 4 LU 1 1 LZ 1 1 OH 3 3 OK 1 1 OM 1 1 ON 1 1 2 P4 1 1 2 PA 2 2 PY 4 4 S5 3 3 SM 2 2 SP 1 4 5 SV 1 1 SV9 1 1 2 TG 1 1 TR 1 1 UA9 1 1 UR 1 1 2 4 V7 1 1 VE 38 31 44 2 115 XE 1 2 3 YO 2 2 YU 4 4 YV 1 2 1 4 Z7 1 1 ZL 3 3 ZS 1 1 2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0ZQ Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 57,424 Not a lot of DX from the Black Hole, especially with just wires. Listened to a W4 working EU on Sunday mid morning and I did not hear a whisper of a tone from any of them. However, lots and lots of W/K/VE activity made for great fun. 80m is amazing at this time of the solar cycle. Seemed like less multipath made for much cleaner decoding too. 73, Jon ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0ZW Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 42,846 Found lots of activity at all hours. RI & MT proved to be elusive. Score improved over previous year due to summer antenna work and also by staying in the chair! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1ECT Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 123,279 This year was very similar to last year. However, a few more QSOs and a few less multipliers resulted in a slightly lower score. The distribution of QSOs across bands and continents was nearly identical except the 80/40 mix (which was nearly equal last year). The shift towards 40m was due to a couple of extended multi-hour sessions with good rates and not many attempts to move me off the frequency. There also seemed to be more activity which helped me to boost my QSOs/hour stat. Saturday: I had a decent start and went to bed around midnight with lots of states in the log for a change (I only needed Wyoming, Montana and Alaska and picked up Wyoming on Sunday). Sunday: In the past I would get started about 8AM and find there was already some European activity on 20m. This year I tried a 7:30 start and found that things were just starting to get going. No doubt an earlier start would have resulted in a more QSOs but I like getting a good night sleep! Best callsign: PD0SANTA. Best DX: I was called by A45WD on 20m on Sunday afternoon. I also found a couple of lonely ZL stations calling CQ late Sunday afternoon on 15m and worked each with one call. These and a couple of Hawaiian stations were the only Oceania stations I put in the log (Also - A4 and ZC4 from ‘Asia’, CN and CT3 from Africa, and only a dozen or so from the Caribbean + South America). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1EQ Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 31,200 FT 1000MP SteppIR - 3el Inv. Vee's for 80 and 40 Writelog software ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1SLF Class: M/S LP Total Score = 37,323 Didn't participate for very long (Skiing was too good) but had fun when I did. Nothing but a doublet on the north side of a mountain and 100 watts so everyone else was doing the work. Thanks Bob ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1TO Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 49,820 My first LA was AA5AU at QSO 499, 500 was also LA. I can't believe it took me so long to work Don. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1UE Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 270,648 Now THAT was fun! I think I'm finally getting the hang of this SO2R business, at least for RTTY contesting. Both stations worked on 10M were mults; 15M was surprisingly good. No real rate, but a good band to keep the 2nd radio busy. Sections missed: DC, LB, NU, NWT, YT, SK. Best DX: VU2NKS on 40M. Thanks to Greg W1KM for the use of his great station. Thanks to all the participants for the Qs! Dennis W1UE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2CG Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 34,713 First real effort in Rtty Contest. Thanks for the Qs, I had a ball. QSL via Buro/LoTW/Direct. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2NRA Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 51,520 This is the longest I've ever spent in the chair during any contest, ever. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2TB Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 57,998 N1MM Pro3 Emtron Amp 1.5kw 80/40 trap dipole @ 45' Classic 33 Tribander @ 50' 73, Mike W2TB ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2V Class: M/S HP Total Score = 99,299 Special Event Station Ham Radio University HRU)/ARRL New York City - Long Island (NLI)Section Convention www.HamRadioUniversity.org QSL card via N2MUN SASE Look for W2V all week, all modes and most bands. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3LL Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 103,020 Best RU score. Lots of stations never worked before on RTTY. Family commitments prevented a full 24 hours. Left Sunday morning in the middle of a good run on 40M. Had fun watching the Live Scores toteboard. Maybe better next year when the K3 replaces the 706. Thanks for all the Q's! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3WKR Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 109,836 Great US contest with limited opening to EU/Asia. Found more dupes this year. New op's with limited checking capability?? Also found more ops WAY off freq. from other contests. I would guess again new ops with AFSK and AFC turned on . New antenna here for receiving on 80 (K9AY). Significsant improvement on # of stations worked on 80. Had a few more Q's this year, but was hurting for Mults. Thanks for all the q's, and thanks to ARRL for sponsoring the 'test. Ran SO1R this year because didn't get all the changes in the shack finished in time for the contest :>( Hope to work you all next year. Byron ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4EE Class: M/S LP Total Score = 19,320 TS-440S, G5RV es R7000 Tnx for the Qs, 73, Jim ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4GHD Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 3,772 operated portable from condo in Florida using a mobile antenna ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4HJ Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 9,911 Fun contest.. lots of line noise ... tnx to all for the Q's. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4NF Class: M/S HP Total Score = 101,760 I had the second radio sitting there along with the second amp and the MK2R+ SO2R box but never got around to figuring out how to configure for SO2R RTTY. I could have really used it in this contest. I didn't put in a full time effort anyways as I couldn't keep my eyes open on Saturday night. I was in bed by 10PM and missed a good portion of the 40/80 running times. I did have a lot of fun on Sunday morning running EU stations one after another on 20 meters and was able to run a little to the west on 15 later in the afternoon. Thanks for all the Qs and I'll see you next from W4RM during ARRL DX SSB and CW. 73, Jack W4NF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4RK Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 69,441 Great participation! RTTY is alive and well! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4RM Class: M/S HP Total Score = 181,414 The W4RM team had a great time as usual. Since we only operate RTTY in the RTTY RU once a year this past week between Christmas and New years was the same and the last five year. Yes, you have it, I spent about two to three days getting all the interfaces working again and trying to trouble shoot a Microham USB II interface unit that had a factory cable for a 1000mp that was wire incorrectly (No PTT) on the RTTY Plug. Well needless to say we had it all working before the contest with about 30min to spare. The contest was great fun Stu W7IY and Lee K4UVA joined me this year and we were cranking from the start. The bands seemed in good shape and I thing 40-50% of our QSO were from EU and working state side off the back of the stacks. At the end of the first 13hrs we had 860 QSO but we were lacking in any mults outside of EU and the US. So, on Sunday we worked hard to pick the needed SA, AF, OC and FE mults to get us within two mults of last years score of 124. QSO seemed to keep coming and by 11AM Sunday we had beaten last years QSOs of 1073 and to what I think will be a new Roanoke Multi-single record (unless NR4M or W4MYA) operate which is always a possibility. Lee and I kept pushing until the end finding seven mults in the last hour for our new all time RTTY RU Score. See you next year in RTTY RU 73 Bill W4RM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4UEF Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 1,248 Thanks for all who was able to print my LITTLE PISTOL. Man Alive! I was only able to put in less than 1 hour. But was very pleased wid my score. ue Rick ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4UK Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 56,959 Wire dipoles only ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4VIC Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 28,667 Worst two days of a bad head cold, RF in the shack -- cut power way back to about 200 watts on 40 (down from 4-500 w. much of the time), almost missed all of 15 meters -- but I had a ball. In previous contests have not been able to work 80 meters much at all because of horrible noise situation on 80 -- got that largely taken care of and VOILA, Viola -- lookit them Q's on 80! Nothing, of course, as compared with most of you guys. Thanks for the Q's. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W5AP Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 191,400 Great contest. 80 was good this year with quiet band condx. Little propagation world-wide esp. Europe. However the big contest stations of Europe produced great signals on 40. Left rig/computer used a 15M inver V at 30 feet & a 40M wire quagi at 30 ft. Right rig/computer used a 4 el SteppIr for 10/20 at 58 ft & 80 invert V @ 50 ft Sound card glitches slowed my rates for the first 2 hours (you think you have these things worked out prior) requiring changes and reboots. N1MM v7.12.15 Some day I hope to have antennas up to compete with Don - who always puts in amazing scored - congrats. Tnx to all for the Q's. 73, Jim ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W5JAY Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 128,441 No planning ahead for this, just a last minute deal (I was suppose to be on call for that weekend). Stan and Kevin not only allowed me to operate from their station, but they did everything to help me get going. Equipment used was an Icom Pro 3, MicroKeyer II, and a desktop computer with Writelog/MMTTY. I tried to have my equipment ready to go, but pilot error in the middle of the contest cost me a couple of hours. There is much to learn at this station about when the best time for band propagation and when to switch antennas. The mountain prop is much different up there compared to here in the River Valley. Stan's antennas do work great! The window I was next to you could just sneak a peek at the 40m beam against some of the prettiest countryside you will ever see. It took a while for me to get the hang of using their beverages and antenna switch boxes. I hope to get to try this again some day. It is very hard to stop thinking about the contest and being at K5GO's. This reminds me of my first Field Day many years ago. Many thanks for everyone involved and hanging in there with me. I can't thank Stan and Kevin enough for their help and use of their station!! 73 de w5jay/jay.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W5MPC Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 18,960 Conditions were a bit rough to start with but improved a bit. Didn't do quite as good as last year but not too bad for the little pistol contest station hi hi. Mike W5MPC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6RQ Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 7,987 This was a part-time effort from my little pistol home station. Best rates were late Saturday night local time on 40m. Propagation conditions were relatively good throughout most of the contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6YX Class: M/S HP Total Score = 148,295 RTTY Roundup is one of my favorite contests of the year! We had a great time at W6YX. Thanks to Rebar N6CCH for doing much of the setup. We ran two simultaneous M/S operations for the contest - W6YX and ND2T. We were expecting a lot of operators, so two efforts would allow everyone to have more fun, but also contribute a lot more points to the NCCC club score instead of just one competitive M/S effort. Mark K6OWL started the contest. He had 100+ QSO hours for both of the first two hours. All hours the rest of the contest were under 100. I got close with a 99 QSO hour Saturday on 40m. 80m was surprisingly good. On Saturday night we experienced bad rain static from the huge storm in the Bay Area. Having the beverages allowed us to hear stations and continue in the contest. The wind and rain storm also affected us in other ways. Our 6-el 15m beam and 5-el 15m beam were not usable due to high SWR, though it's not clear whether this storm caused the problem, or whether it was the previous rain. The high winds caused our 5-el 20m beam to free spin on the mast before the contest. We were able to tie it off, orient it toward the U.S. and use it for the contest. We still need to work on getting rid of the loop of coax that is currently around the mast. Risto W6RK and I were operating on Saturday night when the power to the shack went off at 11:55pm! We were going to stop at midnight anyway, but I was concerned that we may not have power for the rest of the contest. A few minutes after we lost power, we heard all sorts of police and fire sirens nearby. Once Risto found a flashlight, we searched and found the 1.5kW generator in the trailer, however we had no idea what condition the generator was in, when it was last serviced, whether the gasoline in gas cans labeled 2002 was a good idea to use in the generator or whether the labeling just hadn't been updated. (it turns out that the generator was serviced and tested within the last two years, gasoline was much fresher than 2002 and was "Stabil"ized, so it would have been ready to go, but it wasn't obvious at the time) I have a 2.4kW Yamaha generator at home that I knew worked well because I had already tested it in preparation for the storm, and had a fresh supply of gasoline. At least we could set it up and be active in the contest with low power on Sunday. I went home, took a nap, loaded the generator into my SUV, and headed up to W6YX. I was going to start the contest again at 4am, so I headed up really early and found one of the roads off of I280 was still blocked off by police. We later found that there had been a car accident which took out a power line. I got back on 280, took the next exit, and drove the back way in to W6YX. I got the generator and cables all set up, rigs and computers powered, and Writelog up and running. Then at 3:30am, the building power suddenly came back on! I reconnected the rigs and computer back onto the building power and turned on the amplifiers. Power stayed on for the rest of the contest! In retrospect, 11:55pm-3:30am was the perfect time for the power to go out, and long term, gave us some motivation to test and refresh the station's small generator. There's nothing like a contest during a storm to propel us all to resolve these issues. So that both stations had some time during the short European opening on 20m Sunday morning, we swapped bands midway through the opening. The W6YX station operated a lot on 20m Saturday, with the ND2T station taking a hit for a few hours with low rates, so we reversed that on Sunday. John W6LD took over the YX station for a few hours on Sunday, and had some good rates on 15m. Thanks to everyone for all the QSOs! See you in NAQP RTTY and WPX RTTY! 73... -Dean - N6DE 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total % NA 281 392 431 298 0 1402 89.8 AS 1 58 55 0 0 114 7.3 OC 3 4 2 1 0 10 0.6 SA 1 3 2 8 0 14 0.9 EU 0 1 17 0 0 18 1.2 AF 0 1 2 0 0 3 0.2 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total 9A 2 2 BY 1 1 CN 1 1 CT3 1 1 CX 1 1 2 DL 2 2 DU 2 2 EA 1 1 EA8 1 1 EI 1 1 F 1 2 3 G 1 1 GI 1 1 GW 1 1 HI 1 1 HL 4 4 HP 1 1 2 HR 1 1 HS 1 1 2 I 1 1 J3 1 1 JA 50 49 99 K 260 361 380 277 1278 KH6 2 3 1 6 KL 1 3 4 KP4 1 1 2 LU 1 1 OE 1 1 OK 1 1 ON 2 2 P4 1 1 2 1 5 PY 3 3 S5 1 1 UA9 1 1 5 7 VE 20 29 43 20 112 VK 1 1 VR 1 1 XE 1 1 YV 1 2 3 ZL 1 1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7LD Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 62,963 Great band condx. Good contest as usual. It was my 15th entry! Thanks for all the Q's and your patience. de Jack / W7LD / "LUCKY-Dog" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7WHY Class: M/S HP Total Score = 26,810 Well, was that fun or what?? Just wish there would have been some prop to Eu while I was on. This was pretty much a Saturday show as with church and the NFL playoffs on Sunday, not much ham time? I was surprised how good the conditions were. All the 80 and 15 meter Q's were made on the 2nd radio with low power. I could work just about everyone I heard on 80 Saturday night with no problems. It was pretty much a domestic contest here as not a lot of DX. CT9M was loud on 40 at 1:30 in the afternoon. They must have a really great setup there. I finally did get to work them after it got dark here. Just not a whole lot of DX heard though. Thanks for all the Q's and the log is already on LOTW. Hope to get some new states and countries!! 73 Tom W7WHY Radio 1 TS-450SAT + SB-200 ~400 watts Radio 2 FT-840 barefoot. 80 meter dipole, 40 meter vertical, 2 el 20 meter monobander, 15 meter dipole. N1MM Logger 7.12.5-Great program!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7ZR Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 72,570 Must have been a new rule this year allowing dupes on the same band. I never worked so many in a short contest. Decided to play on 20m only just for giggles. Was good for 4 hours at the start but painful on Sunday. Missing State: DC (Must have all been in NH) Missing Prov: LB, NU, NWT, YT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W8AKR Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 46,240 USED A NEW FT950.. WOW WHAT A GREAT RTTY RADIO! ONLY 2 ANTENNAS, 67 AND 33 FT VERTICALS. (MANY, MANY RADIALS). I HAD A BLAST! HOPE TO GET THE AMP GOING FOR THE NEXT ONE! (SB220 OR AL1500) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA0RSX Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 14,030 Not much time to spend but did improve hourly rate and total from last year (spent less time too). Lots of fun again 73 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA1FCN Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 102,144 Does everybody in California opearte RTTY ? Thank you guys (w6). I'm tired I'll just goto bed. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA2MNO Class: M/S HP Total Score = 42,366 RTTY contests are second to CW contests for me. We (KE0L, NR0L, N0KBD AND K0OB) had our usual chat session going on 2M simplex which makes it really enjoyable during the contest to keep me from falling asleep at the wheel. 80M was great for acquiring Q's, 40M was good for DX early Sunday morning and 20M was so-so. Sunday afternoon my amplifier started dropping output power, down to nothing. I know RTTY contests are rough on amplifiers but I've run a number of RTTY contests before with the amp and this is the first time it presented this problem. If I turned the output power down to 300W it would work fine. I'll dig into this more but if someone can suggest a good tech who can help me out with this problem then that would be appreciated. It was fun to see Greg/K0OB enjoy this contest as it was his first RTTY go-around. Now, for the NAQP RTTY contest in a few weeks. Here are my DX QSO's: CT3 CX EA8 HI HR J3 JA KH6 KL KP4 P4 PY XE YV ZL ZS 73 - Bob WA2MNO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WB2ABD Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 15,989 Didn't get all the stuff working until Sunday morning. Then had to spend time on fine tuning message macros and explaining what I was doing to the granddaughters (one of whom thought the "code" sounded funny). Haven't participated in a RTTY contest since the early 90's. Exceeded my expectations. T-T O2 CL33@35ft 40m inv vee @ 55ft 160/80m inv vees @ 60ft bevs/K9AY N1MM MMTTY MK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WB4YDL Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 128,368 This was my first ARRL RTTY RU. I read that this was the most popular of RTTY contests. Well, it started out fast – starting on 20M, I stayed in the chair until Mother Nature INSISTED !! I operated 23 hours. 15M never gelled but it was good to get on the band when the 20M rate hit the wall at about noon. I decided to point the beam NW and picked up, I think, the entire ND ham population ! Also WA state was out in force. Getting called by V73RY on two bands was great. 73, Jamie WB4YDL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WB6BFG Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 18,012 Had a good time even though my numbers weren't great. Software had hiccups that I had keep working through/around... 73 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WB9Z Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 129,159 Way too many equipment problems this weekend.... ugh. This is the first RU that I have done from home as the last two I operated at PJ2T as a single op. and 3 years ago I was with NW0L at PJ2T and we were Top Multi-op World. This one was NO near as fun... hopefully next year I'll be back there. WB9Z ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WK6I Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 130,659 Neither rain, nor sleet, nor snow... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WW4LL Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 181,484 I'd like to blame it on Murphy but can't. My own oversight resulted in missing the first 3 hrs and 9 mins of the contest. Thanks to W8JI for bailing me out. In spite of the late start, was able to regroup a bit and enjoyed myself. Hope you did too! 73'....Fred WW4LL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YB2ECG Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 4,576 Only working on RTTY only [cause this is RTTY Roundup]. Much better than last year result! Got PD07SANTA/SES on 20m; is he really SANTA CLAUS, I hope he will not send only QSL but also some radio gear, hi hi....... Happy New Year 2008 Everyone! www.yb2ecg.web.id Cause Life's too short for contesting. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YU7AE Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 55,091 Equipment: Kenwood TS-950sd + H.M. PA (8877) Ant1. Inv.Vee for 80/40m Ant2. Quad for 20/15/10m (damaged by wind and ice in sunday morning) P.C. Pentium 4 with Creative Audigy sound card RCKlog 3.3 with MMTTY (excellent) After a good start (with very good rate) i have problems with ice and strong cold wind, broken 20m reflector wire on quad (have swr 1:3 and running limited power hi), broken 15m driven element wire, have abt.5mm ice on 40/80m inv.V and swr is over 1:5 on 40m and abt 1:3 on 80m. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZC4LI Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 116,200 SO1R Antennas:- C/Craft A3S @ 50Ft Titanex 160HD Amp:- ACOM-1000 Rig:- Icom-756 Pro3 Software:- WF1B v5.02 {Still} Thanks to the organisers and to everyone for the Q's The contest started off well with 15M being open to the States for half an hour then down to 20M for the next 3 hours then on to 40M until I hit the hay at 0001Z. Started up again on 40M at 0630z and gradually worked my way up and then down the bands until the finish. Condx were good on all open bands. Best hour was 83. Gripes. Just the usual ones, the most annoying being when asking for a repeat of a number/state being given the ''Full Monty'' once again usually with my call being repeated 3 or 4 times. Next time I will do as Bill advises making a note of the call and sending them a personal email. I have great difficulty in getting State/Prov mults at the moment, hopefully this will pick up when {if ever} propagation improves. 73 and hope to cu in the CQWW160 and the BARTG Sprint, makes for a busy weekend as I will be attempting both again this year. Steve. Index of Calls Call: 4U1WB Class: M/S HP Call: 4X6UU Class: Single Op LP Call: 9A35RKP Class: Single Op LP Call: 9A5CW Class: Single Op LP Call: 9A5W Class: Single Op HP Call: A45WD Class: Single Op LP Call: AA3B Class: M/S HP Call: AA4LR Class: Single Op HP Call: AA4V Class: M/S HP Call: AA5AU Class: Single Op LP Call: AA5VU Class: Single Op HP Call: AA8LL Class: M/S HP Call: AA9DY Class: Single Op LP Call: AB0LR Class: Single Op LP Call: AB0RX Class: M/S HP Call: AB4GG Class: Single Op LP Call: AC0W Class: Single Op LP Call: AC5AA Class: Single Op LP Call: AC5ZS Class: Single Op LP Call: AD4EB Class: Single Op HP Call: AE1P Class: Single Op LP Call: AF4OX Class: Single Op HP Call: AI4G Class: Single Op LP Call: AI6YL Class: Single Op LP Call: AI9T Class: Single Op HP Call: AJ1M Class: M/S LP Call: AL1G Class: M/S HP Call: CT9M Class: M/S HP Call: DD7ZT Class: Single Op LP Call: DJ6JH Class: Single Op LP Call: DK7UM Class: Single Op LP Call: DK8EY Class: Single Op HP Call: DL1ZBO Class: Single Op LP Call: DL4RCK Class: Single Op HP Call: DL9NDS Class: Single Op LP Call: DO9ST Class: Single Op LP Call: DV1JM Class: Single Op LP Call: EA1CJ Class: Single Op HP Call: EA2RY Class: Single Op LP Call: EA5DKU Class: Single Op LP Call: EA7ZY Class: Single Op HP Call: EA8OM Class: Single Op LP Call: F4JRC Class: Single Op HP Call: F5BEG Class: Single Op LP Call: F5CQ Class: Single Op HP Call: F5NBU Class: Single Op HP Call: F5RD Class: Single Op LP Call: G6PZ Class: Single Op HP Call: GU0SUP Class: Single Op LP Call: GW7X Class: Single Op HP Call: HI3T Class: Single Op LP Call: IC8TEM Class: Single Op LP Call: IK1DFH Class: Single Op LP Call: IV3HAX Class: Single Op HP Call: K0AD Class: Single Op HP Call: K0EU Class: Single Op LP Call: K0FX Class: Single Op LP Call: K0SR Class: Single Op HP Call: K0TG Class: Single Op LP Call: K0TI Class: Single Op LP Call: K0UK Class: Single Op LP Call: K0WA Class: Single Op LP Call: K0XU Class: Single Op LP Call: K0YQ/7 Class: Single Op LP Call: K1GU Class: Single Op LP Call: K1RY Class: M/S LP Call: K1ZW Class: Single Op LP Call: K1ZZI Class: Single Op HP Call: K2PAL Class: Single Op LP Call: K2YG Class: Single Op QRP Call: K3FH Class: Single Op LP Call: K3MJW Class: M/S HP Call: K3SV Class: Single Op LP Call: K3TD Class: Single Op LP Call: K3WA Class: Single Op HP Call: K3WI Class: Single Op HP Call: K4ADR Class: Single Op HP Call: K4CZ Class: Single Op HP Call: K4GMH Class: Single Op HP Call: K4HAL Class: Single Op LP Call: K4HMB Class: Single Op HP Call: K4KO Class: Single Op HP Call: K4OD Class: Single Op LP Call: K4RO Class: Single Op HP Call: K4TD Class: M/S HP Call: K4WW Class: Single Op HP Call: K4XD Class: M/S LP Call: K5AM Class: Single Op HP Call: K5HP Class: Single Op HP Call: K5NZ Class: M/S HP Call: K5PI Class: Single Op LP Call: K5ZD Class: Single Op HP Call: K6CTA Class: M/S HP Call: K6DEX Class: Single Op LP Call: K6GEP Class: Single Op LP Call: K6LL Class: Single Op HP Call: K6MM Class: Single Op LP Call: K6RB Class: Single Op HP Call: K7BTW Class: M/S HP Call: K7EG Class: Single Op HP Call: K7HBN Class: Single Op LP Call: K7RE Class: Single Op LP Call: K7ZS Class: Single Op LP Call: K8FC Class: Single Op LP Call: K8OSF Class: Single Op LP Call: K9CT Class: M/S HP Call: K9DJ Class: Single Op HP Call: KA2KON Class: Single Op LP Call: KA4OTB Class: Single Op LP Call: KA4RRU Class: Single Op LP Call: KB1CJ Class: Single Op LP Call: KB3LIX Class: Single Op LP Call: KB7N Class: Single Op LP Call: KB9S Class: Single Op LP Call: KC0NKW Class: Single Op LP Call: KC7V Class: Single Op HP Call: KD0S Class: Single Op LP Call: KD4HXT/6 Class: Single Op LP Call: KD5J Class: Single Op LP Call: KD5LNO Class: Single Op LP Call: KE1F Class: Single Op HP Call: KE3D Class: Single Op HP Call: KE4KWE Class: Single Op LP Call: KE4UNA Class: M/S HP Call: KE5OG Class: Single Op LP Call: KF0UR Class: M/S LP Call: KG4CUY Class: Single Op HP Call: KG5U Class: Single Op LP Call: KH6CW Class: Single Op LP Call: KH6GMP Class: Single Op HP Call: KI4IMA Class: Single Op LP Call: KK5OQ Class: Single Op HP Call: KK8MM Class: Single Op LP Call: KN4Q Class: Single Op LP Call: KO7X Class: Single Op HP Call: KP4KE Class: Single Op LP Call: KQ6ES Class: Single Op LP Call: KR1ST Class: Single Op LP Call: KR4F Class: Single Op HP Call: KS0M Class: Single Op LP Call: KS0T Class: Single Op HP Call: KT0DX Class: Single Op LP Call: KT1I Class: Single Op LP Call: KT7G Class: Single Op HP Call: KU5B Class: M/S LP Call: KW7N Class: Single Op LP Call: LZ8A Class: Single Op HP Call: LZ9R Class: M/S LP Call: MI0LLL Class: Single Op HP Call: N0EOP Class: Single Op LP Call: N0KE Class: Single Op HP Call: N0KM Class: Single Op LP Call: N0NI Class: M/S LP Call: N0UR Class: Single Op QRP Call: N1BAA Class: Single Op HP Call: N1HRA Class: Single Op HP Call: N1MGO Class: Single Op HP Call: N1UZ Class: Single Op HP Call: N2CU Class: Single Op LP Call: N2FF Class: Single Op LP Call: N2SQW Class: Single Op HP Call: N2WK Class: Single Op LP Call: N2ZN Class: Single Op LP Call: N3BM Class: Single Op HP Call: N3CHX Class: Single Op LP Call: N3HSH Class: Single Op LP Call: N3KAE Class: M/S HP Call: N3KHK Class: Single Op LP Call: N3ME Class: Single Op LP Call: N3UA Class: Single Op LP Call: N4CBK Class: Single Op LP Call: N4CW Class: Single Op HP Call: N4IL Class: M/S LP Call: N4KG Class: M/S HP Call: N4LF Class: Single Op LP Call: N4MUH Class: Single Op LP Call: N4SCS Class: Single Op LP Call: N4ZZ Class: Single Op HP Call: N5KWN Class: Single Op LP Call: N5NA Class: Single Op HP Call: N5UWY Class: Single Op LP Call: N5ZM Class: M/S LP Call: N6CK Class: Single Op HP Call: N6MW Class: Single Op HP Call: N6OJ Class: Single Op LP Call: N6PC Class: Single Op LP Call: N6QQ Class: M/S HP Call: N6RC Class: M/S HP Call: N6XT Class: Single Op LP Call: N7BF Class: Single Op HP Call: N7ON Class: Single Op LP Call: N7UVH Class: Single Op LP Call: N8TDL Class: Single Op HP Call: N8YA Class: Single Op HP Call: N8YYS Class: Single Op LP Call: N9BHH/7 Class: Single Op LP Call: N9LAH Class: M/S LP Call: N9TF Class: M/S LP Call: NA4K Class: Single Op LP Call: NA4RO Class: M/S LP Call: ND2T Class: M/S HP Call: ND4X Class: Single Op LP Call: NJ1W Class: Single Op LP Call: NJ2F Class: Single Op HP Call: NN7SS Class: M/S LP Call: NO9C Class: Single Op LP Call: NP3D/W1 Class: Single Op HP Call: NT0F Class: Single Op LP Call: OH2BP Class: Single Op HP Call: OH6BG Class: Single Op HP Call: OH8GZN Class: Single Op LP Call: OK2CLW Class: Single Op LP Call: OL6X Class: M/S HP Call: ON4ATW Class: Single Op HP Call: P49X Class: Single Op HP Call: PY2BRZ Class: Single Op LP Call: PZ5YV Class: M/S HP Call: S53M Class: Single Op HP Call: S56A Class: Single Op HP Call: S58P Class: Single Op HP Call: SM3JUR Class: Single Op LP Call: UT3HWW Class: M/S LP Call: UY7C Class: Single Op LP Call: UZ4E Class: M/S HP Call: VA1CHP Class: Single Op HP Call: VA2UP Class: Single Op LP Call: VA3DX Class: Single Op HP Call: VA3PC Class: M/S HP Call: VA3WR Class: Single Op LP Call: VA7AM Class: Single Op LP Call: VA7ST Class: Single Op HP Call: VE1OP Class: Single Op LP Call: VE2FU Class: Single Op HP Call: VE2RYY Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3FH Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3GSI Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3JI Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3MGY Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3NZ Class: Single Op HP Call: VE3RCN Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3SS Class: Single Op HP Call: VE3TMT Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3XAT Class: Single Op LP Call: VE4EAR Class: Single Op LP Call: VE5CPU Class: Single Op HP Call: VE7CF Class: Single Op HP Call: VE7FO Class: M/S LP Call: VO1TTY Class: Single Op LP Call: VY2LI Class: Single Op LP Call: VY2SS Class: Single Op LP Call: W0BH Class: Single Op LP Call: W0BR Class: Single Op LP Call: W0ETT Class: Single Op LP Call: W0LM Class: M/S HP Call: W0LSD Class: Single Op HP Call: W0MU Class: Single Op HP Call: W0PC Class: M/S LP Call: W0PR Class: Single Op HP Call: W0SD Class: M/S HP Call: W0ZQ Class: Single Op HP Call: W0ZW Class: Single Op HP Call: W1BYH Class: Single Op LP Call: W1ECT Class: Single Op LP Call: W1EQ Class: Single Op LP Call: W1HFN Class: Single Op LP Call: W1SLF Class: M/S LP Call: W1TO Class: Single Op HP Call: W1UE Class: Single Op HP Call: W2CG Class: Single Op LP Call: W2NRA Class: Single Op HP Call: W2RTY Class: M/S LP Call: W2TB Class: Single Op HP Call: W2V Class: M/S HP Call: W3BUI Class: Single Op LP Call: W3DQN Class: Single Op LP Call: W3LL Class: Single Op LP Call: W3MF Class: Single Op HP Call: W3WKR Class: Single Op HP Call: W4EE Class: M/S LP Call: W4GHD Class: Single Op LP Call: W4HJ Class: Single Op HP Call: W4LC Class: Single Op LP Call: W4NF Class: M/S HP Call: W4NZ Class: Single Op HP Call: W4RK Class: Single Op HP Call: W4RM Class: M/S HP Call: W4UEF Class: Single Op LP Call: W4UK Class: Single Op LP Call: W4VIC Class: Single Op HP Call: W4ZE Class: Single Op HP Call: W5AP Class: Single Op HP Call: W5JAY Class: Single Op HP Call: W5MPC Class: Single Op LP Call: W5VY Class: Single Op LP Call: W6FFH Class: Single Op LP Call: W6RQ Class: Single Op LP Call: W6YX Class: M/S HP Call: W6ZL Class: Single Op LP Call: W7CT Class: Single Op HP Call: W7LD Class: Single Op LP Call: W7MRC Class: Single Op LP Call: W7NNN Class: Single Op LP Call: W7QQQ Class: Single Op HP Call: W7TMT Class: Single Op LP Call: W7WHY Class: M/S HP Call: W7WW Class: M/S HP Call: W7ZR Class: Single Op HP Call: W8AKR Class: Single Op LP Call: WA0RSX Class: Single Op LP Call: WA0SXV Class: Single Op HP Call: WA1FCN Class: Single Op LP Call: WA1PMA Class: M/S HP Call: WA2ETU Class: Single Op HP Call: WA2MNO Class: M/S HP Call: WA4OSD Class: Single Op LP Call: WA5ZUP Class: Single Op HP Call: WA6BOB Class: Single Op HP Call: WA7SHP Class: Single Op LP Call: WA7YAZ Class: Single Op LP Call: WB0BLV Class: Single Op LP Call: WB2ABD Class: Single Op LP Call: WB2RHM/4 Class: Single Op LP Call: WB4YDL Class: Single Op HP Call: WB6BFG Class: Single Op LP Call: WB9Z Class: Single Op HP Call: WG4M Class: Single Op LP Call: WK6I Class: Single Op HP Call: WO4D Class: Single Op LP Call: WO4O Class: Single Op LP Call: WT9Q Class: Single Op LP Call: WV0T Class: Single Op HP Call: WW4LL Class: Single Op HP Call: WW8Q Class: Single Op LP Call: WX4TM Class: Single Op HP Call: WZ8P Class: M/S LP Call: YB2ECG Class: Single Op LP Call: YL8M Class: Single Op HP Call: YO9BXC Class: Single Op LP Call: YU7AE Class: Single Op HP Call: ZC4LI Class: Single Op HP Index of Calls organized by Class Class: M/S HP Call: 4U1WB Call: AA3B Call: AA4V Call: AA8LL Call: AB0RX Call: AL1G Call: CT9M Call: K3MJW Call: K4TD Call: K5NZ Call: K6CTA Call: K7BTW Call: K9CT Call: KE4UNA Call: N3KAE Call: N4KG Call: N6QQ Call: N6RC Call: ND2T Call: OL6X Call: PZ5YV Call: UZ4E Call: VA3PC Call: W0LM Call: W0SD Call: W2V Call: W4NF Call: W4RM Call: W6YX Call: W7WHY Call: W7WW Call: WA1PMA Call: WA2MNO Class: M/S LP Call: AJ1M Call: K1RY Call: K4XD Call: KF0UR Call: KU5B Call: LZ9R Call: N0NI Call: N4IL Call: N5ZM Call: N9LAH Call: N9TF Call: NA4RO Call: NN7SS Call: UT3HWW Call: VE7FO Call: W0PC Call: W1SLF Call: W2RTY Call: W4EE Call: WZ8P Class: Single Op HP Call: 9A5W Call: AA4LR Call: AA5VU Call: AD4EB Call: AF4OX Call: AI9T Call: DK8EY Call: DL4RCK Call: EA1CJ Call: EA7ZY Call: F4JRC Call: F5CQ Call: F5NBU Call: G6PZ Call: GW7X Call: IV3HAX Call: K0AD Call: K0SR Call: K1ZZI Call: K3WA Call: K3WI Call: K4ADR Call: K4CZ Call: K4GMH Call: K4HMB Call: K4KO Call: K4RO Call: K4WW Call: K5AM Call: K5HP Call: K5ZD Call: K6LL Call: K6RB Call: K7EG Call: K9DJ Call: KC7V Call: KE1F Call: KE3D Call: KG4CUY Call: KH6GMP Call: KK5OQ Call: KO7X Call: KR4F Call: KS0T Call: KT7G Call: LZ8A Call: MI0LLL Call: N0KE Call: N1BAA Call: N1HRA Call: N1MGO Call: N1UZ Call: N2SQW Call: N3BM Call: N4CW Call: N4ZZ Call: N5NA Call: N6CK Call: N6MW Call: N7BF Call: N8TDL Call: N8YA Call: NJ2F Call: NP3D/W1 Call: OH2BP Call: OH6BG Call: ON4ATW Call: P49X Call: S53M Call: S56A Call: S58P Call: VA1CHP Call: VA3DX Call: VA7ST Call: VE2FU Call: VE3NZ Call: VE3SS Call: VE5CPU Call: VE7CF Call: W0LSD Call: W0MU Call: W0PR Call: W0ZQ Call: W0ZW Call: W1TO Call: W1UE Call: W2NRA Call: W2TB Call: W3MF Call: W3WKR Call: W4HJ Call: W4NZ Call: W4RK Call: W4VIC Call: W4ZE Call: W5AP Call: W5JAY Call: W7CT Call: W7QQQ Call: W7ZR Call: WA0SXV Call: WA2ETU Call: WA5ZUP Call: WA6BOB Call: WB4YDL Call: WB9Z Call: WK6I Call: WV0T Call: WW4LL Call: WX4TM Call: YL8M Call: YU7AE Call: ZC4LI Class: Single Op LP Call: 4X6UU Call: 9A35RKP Call: 9A5CW Call: A45WD Call: AA5AU Call: AA9DY Call: AB0LR Call: AB4GG Call: AC0W Call: AC5AA Call: AC5ZS Call: AE1P Call: AI4G Call: AI6YL Call: DD7ZT Call: DJ6JH Call: DK7UM Call: DL1ZBO Call: DL9NDS Call: DO9ST Call: DV1JM Call: EA2RY Call: EA5DKU Call: EA8OM Call: F5BEG Call: F5RD Call: GU0SUP Call: HI3T Call: IC8TEM Call: IK1DFH Call: K0EU Call: K0FX Call: K0TG Call: K0TI Call: K0UK Call: K0WA Call: K0XU Call: K0YQ/7 Call: K1GU Call: K1ZW Call: K2PAL Call: K3FH Call: K3SV Call: K3TD Call: K4HAL Call: K4OD Call: K5PI Call: K6DEX Call: K6GEP Call: K6MM Call: K7HBN Call: K7RE Call: K7ZS Call: K8FC Call: K8OSF Call: KA2KON Call: KA4OTB Call: KA4RRU Call: KB1CJ Call: KB3LIX Call: KB7N Call: KB9S Call: KC0NKW Call: KD0S Call: KD4HXT/6 Call: KD5J Call: KD5LNO Call: KE4KWE Call: KE5OG Call: KG5U Call: KH6CW Call: KI4IMA Call: KK8MM Call: KN4Q Call: KP4KE Call: KQ6ES Call: KR1ST Call: KS0M Call: KT0DX Call: KT1I Call: KW7N Call: N0EOP Call: N0KM Call: N2CU Call: N2FF Call: N2WK Call: N2ZN Call: N3CHX Call: N3HSH Call: N3KHK Call: N3ME Call: N3UA Call: N4CBK Call: N4LF Call: N4MUH Call: N4SCS Call: N5KWN Call: N5UWY Call: N6OJ Call: N6PC Call: N6XT Call: N7ON Call: N7UVH Call: N8YYS Call: N9BHH/7 Call: NA4K Call: ND4X Call: NJ1W Call: NO9C Call: NT0F Call: OH8GZN Call: OK2CLW Call: PY2BRZ Call: SM3JUR Call: UY7C Call: VA2UP Call: VA3WR Call: VA7AM Call: VE1OP Call: VE2RYY Call: VE3FH Call: VE3GSI Call: VE3JI Call: VE3MGY Call: VE3RCN Call: VE3TMT Call: VE3XAT Call: VE4EAR Call: VO1TTY Call: VY2LI Call: VY2SS Call: W0BH Call: W0BR Call: W0ETT Call: W1BYH Call: W1ECT Call: W1EQ Call: W1HFN Call: W2CG Call: W3BUI Call: W3DQN Call: W3LL Call: W4GHD Call: W4LC Call: W4UEF Call: W4UK Call: W5MPC Call: W5VY Call: W6FFH Call: W6RQ Call: W6ZL Call: W7LD Call: W7MRC Call: W7NNN Call: W7TMT Call: W8AKR Call: WA0RSX Call: WA1FCN Call: WA4OSD Call: WA7SHP Call: WA7YAZ Call: WB0BLV Call: WB2ABD Call: WB2RHM/4 Call: WB6BFG Call: WG4M Call: WO4D Call: WO4O Call: WT9Q Call: WW8Q Call: YB2ECG Call: YO9BXC Class: Single Op QRP Call: K2YG Call: N0UR