ARRL RTTY Roundup
Last weekend I worked my first long RTTY contest for years. In the 1980s I was quite active on RTTY by using decoder builded from the legendary Sinclair ZX81 🙂
In ARRL RTTY Roundup I broke an old OH record, but only by 1k points, so after log check – no chance. At least I am #1 in Finland for single op high power. At the beginning I had some problems with MMTTY – actually I just don’t know it well enough yet.
ARRL RTTY Roundup
Call: OH1F
Operator(s): OH1NOA
Station: OH1AF
Class: Single Op HP
QTH: Pori
Operating Time (hrs): 24
Summary:
Band QSOs
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80: 160
40: 232
20: 422
15: 180
10: 0
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Total: 994 State/Prov = 42 Countries = 59 Total Score = 100,394
Club: Contest Club Finland
Comments:
Missed lots of multipliers! Where were all the Asians? Good JA opening on 20m but worked only JAs and HLs. Openings to stateside were very intensive but very short, bands closed early – eg. 20m was basicly unusable after 16z on Sunday.
But it was good to see 15m open too.
FT1000D + Win-Test + MMTTY + MicroHam Microkeyer II + Alpha 91b + antennae
This weekend there is an UK RTTY Contest. It seems to be pretty popular – winners worked some 900 qsos last year. I will probably go and give it a shot. Unfortunately I need to use N1MM, one new software again.
