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My contest year started with ARRL RTTY Roundup. This was the second RTTY contest with my buddy Patrik, OH6GDX.

ARRL RTTY Roundup

Call: OH1F
Operator(s): OH1NOA OH6GDX
Station: OH1AF

Class: M/S HP
QTH:
Operating Time (hrs): 24

Summary:
Band QSOs
————
80: 145
40: 263
20: 231
15: 219
10: 8
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Total: 866 State/Prov = 44 Countries = 79 Total Score = 106,518

Club: Contest Club Finland

Comments:

“Two operator, one set up” -operation. Had fun!

Propagation was not so good than it has been during this contest season. Low bands were ok, but we couldn’t get much going on during the nighttime. High bands closed to USA/VE very early, so missed some states/provinces.

Christmas storm broke our 20m stacked array, so this time we used only a single yagi for 20m. It is in same tower than 15m yagis but pointing to different direction, so band changes with very slow turning tower were not so quick 🙂

For the first time I was operating “assisted” in a major contest. One of the first serious CQWW RTTY contests too … I think I once worked this one from OH1ZAA’s station (some 20 years ago).

CQ Worldwide DX Contest, RTTY

Call: OH1F
Operator(s): OH1NOA
Station: OH1AF

Class: SOAB(A) HP
QTH:
Operating Time (hrs): 36

Summary:
Band QSOs Pts State/Prov DX Zones
——————————————
80: 112 226 1 40 9
40: 220 500 17 63 21
20: 420 996 35 69 30
15: 502 1323 40 74 28
10: 221 588 31 67 26
——————————————
Total: 1475 3633 124 313 114 Total Score = 2,001,783

Club: Contest Club Finland

Comments:

FT1000D + WinTest + MMTTY + Microham Keyer II + Alpha 91b + antennae

The best condx for 10 years! The highlight was to work KH6MB during the daytime
on Saturday at 10 meters and then at 22z on 15. Propagation was not as good at
Sunday although it was still ok. It was also challenging to work European
multipliers on high bands.

As I was SO1R this was just relaxed “just for fun” operation. Chasing DX spots
and chatting on WWYC IRC. I had some techincal issues like BSoD of my mini
laptop 4 times during the contest. Also WT had its own tricks and someway I
feel that I am not totally understanding all the features of MMTTY yet (= I
should have more qsos).

CU all in SAC SSB contest 8-9 October, 2011 from OH1F M/M.

73 Timo OH1NOA, OJ0M

Call: OH1F
Operator(s): OH1NOA
Station: OH1AF

Class: Single Op HP
QTH: Devil’s Rock, Pori
Operating Time (hrs): 20

Summary:
Band QSOs Pts
—————–
80: 155 155
40: 266 266
20: 401 401
15: 88 88
10: 0 0
—————–
Total: 910 910 Mults = 95 Total Score = 485,490

Club: Contest Club Finland

Comments:

Poor propagation although there was some short DX-openings. Especially low bands were tough. Continents as multipliers is a really stupid rule in the contest where you work 2 South Americans (LU, PY), 2 Africans (CT3, EA8) and 3 Oceanian stations (2xYB, 9M6).

Now 2703 RTTY QSOs this year.

                    UK DX Contest, RTTY

Call: OH1F
Operator(s): OH1NOA
Station: OH1AF

Class: Single Op HP
QTH: Devil's Rock, Pori
Operating Time (hrs): 18

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Pts   Mults
-------------------------
   80:  171          50
   40:  175          42
   20:  335          60
   15:   79          32
   10:    1
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Total:  761  1756   185  Total Score = 324,860

Club: Contest Club Finland

Comments:

Murphy visited several times. Good signals from V31YN and USA on 80 meters!

I have now worked 1793 RTTY Contest qsos in 2011. Maybe I should aim to 10k this year 🙂
This was pretty hard contest. I could get clubhouse’s lock open, because of -22 Celsius outside. Yes, I know this a new excuse. When I finally got in (thanks OH1TM), I had to download N1MM. But then I didn’t get N1MM working with AFSK. Then finally after almost 2 hours of official start, I made my first contacts. I decided switch to Win-Test and counted score manually afterwards.

I am thinking about BARTG RTTY Sprint next weekend. Similar contest than this was, but probably a bit more stations QRV.

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

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.