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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
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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 🙂

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.