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Soapbox for 2024
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7E3E |
MANY THANKS TO ALL STATIONS made valid QSO with us, we are member of ORARI LOKAL KEDIRI, 6-8JNUARI2024 |
7K1III |
I enjoyed the contest. |
7M3LDC |
I enjoyed the contest. |
7N2UQC |
I could enjoy the good contest. Tnx for a fine contest again. IC-7600, Dipole-Ant. |
9A7B |
VY BAD PROPAGATION |
AA4HG |
Nothing like losing the power supply on the main rig at 03:30Z. Guess it's time to go to bed! Sorry to whom I was working. That's why you didn't get the response. |
AD4TT |
What a great year, this contest gets better every year. |
DJ2IA |
IC-7610 90Watts Quad Vertical Dipole MMTTY/USB |
DK4WW |
Nice contest. Good start in contest year 2024. Cheers! Uwe DK4WWW |
DL0RDG |
IC 7400 100W Ant. Vertical |
DL2PK |
ICOM IC 7300; 7 Band Dipol; LDG 600 HF9V |
DL3RAR |
Antennas: |
DL5LS |
Nice Test |
DL7AUO |
Flexradio 6700 Antennas: Dipols only |
DL7YS |
Great contest ! Will be definitely there next year with more time on the radio! 73 de DL7YS, Peter |
DL9MFY |
Fldigi, AFSK, VOX, FT5000DX, 50 watt, 5-ele KT36 |
DN4TG |
DN4TG is an Training Station Trainee yl Silvia use this call Advisor DL8TG |
E70Y |
only 3H |
EA3Y |
Setup RTX Icom 7000 - Ant 10-15-20 Beam Yagui and Wires |
EA4BAS |
Icom 7300 eaxBeam Dipole Bazooka 40-80 |
EA4HPY |
Flex 6400 Antennas: |
EA8AQV |
Yaesu FT-897D Dipole Windom |
EA8DIG |
Antennas: |
EC5W |
Flexrado Antennas: |
EI7M |
A fun contest. Unfortunately some equipment failure lost us some Q's but happy enough apart from that. See you all next time! |
EW8OM |
73! |
F4CVO |
Little participation with antenna vertical R7000 broken 40m to 15m, qrv with 16m wire endfeld and 100w. Thanks all for qso GL. |
F4IRV |
HAPPY NEW YEAR ! |
F5TLF |
Only 40m Band with single dipole |
F6AGM |
Tried 2BSIQ for the first time ... ! |
G2B |
First contest of any description for a long time. Struggled to get going on Saturday, but glad I kept at it for Sunday. Thanks so much to everyone for making this a great Contest. :-) |
G2E |
Rig: Yaesu FTdx101D, antennas: verticals for all bands, in a rural location on a farm. Bands were all in fairly reasonable shape. 10m closed a little early. Threw in the towel 2 hours before the end - this CWop isn't used to so many hours of RTTY diddling! Thanks for the Q's! 73, Roger, G2E / M0ORD |
GU0SUP |
Sadly, the bands closed early here at the start, but WY and KH6 for the first two Q's on 20m seemed good, but 20 was dead by 1915UTC, and 40m was very poor, so that it was it for me until Sunday morning. Started on 40m, thinking it would be mostly EU, so very pleased to get CA in the log, along with SD and AZ. Good to see the higher bands playing nicely, although I didn't make so many Q's there. Mostly S&P, as that was the best way to pick up mults. I was very pleased to get WA, MT, ID plus KL7 and SK in the log before ending. |
HA0GK |
RIG FT 450AT POWER 5W ANT. 6 BAND WINDOM |
HA50HK |
Great contest. |
HA6NL |
ICOM756pro 100w dipole, delta loop, HF4v |
HF150WW |
RIG:FTdx101D PWR:15 ANT:DeltaLoop |
I2XLF |
KENWOOD TS450S ANT DIPOLE |
IK2OVT |
TNX VY NICE TEST - TNX x YOUR JOB x TEST - OK PROPAGATION 10/15 MT. GL ET DX TNX x QSOs FOR MY MINUS STATION x ANTENNAS. VY '73 ET HNY 2024 CIAO. |
IK6RHT [photo/doc] |
(no comments) |
IN3OWY |
TS-590SG ANT. VERT AND LW |
IP3W |
5nndxcc |
IT9VCE |
Closed propagation in the 10 meter band, very few QSOs. A hundred more QSOs than the previous edition, but with a very low rate of just 30 QSOs/hour on Sunday afternoon. 300 Watts of power. Activity approximately 18 hours. |
IT9VDQ |
100w + 5 meters balcony stylus antenna at 11th floor! |
IU2NUB |
Sunsdr2 Pro Antennas: Vertical |
IW9FDD |
Nice contest I used IC-7300 and 100 Watt on a Vertical Pro.si.stel 73' de Vito IW9FDD |
IZ1FKS |
very fine propagation conditions to NA on sunday afternoon. There is urgent need for an ARRL Round-UP PSK contest using PSK only modes using the full RTTY band segments far from psk bandplan frequencies. This would be a great possibility for low poer station, PSK63 is also faster than RTTY and woth lower error rate and to save PSK modes from FTx 73 de Phil, iz1fks |
JA1DBG |
I enjoyed the contest. |
JA1IE |
I enjoyed the contest. |
JA1RYC |
I enjoyed the contest. |
JA2AXB |
Thanks for the contests |
JA2HYD |
Tnx FB Contest !! |
JA3HBF |
RIG: IC-7600 + IC-PW1(500W) ANT:: Dipole, 3ele Yagi |
JA3JM |
RIG:IC-706 50W ANT:Vertical |
JA3RAZ |
I enjoyed the contest. |
JA3VOV |
I enjoyed the contest. |
JA4ENY |
I enjoyed the contest. |
JA4RMX |
I enjoyed the contest. |
JA8DNV |
Put your comments here. |
JA8KGG |
RIG:IC7600M ANT:15MH HB9CV |
JA9CWJ |
I enjoyed the contest. See you nex year ! Yoshi |
JA9LX |
I enjoyed the contest. |
JE2CPI |
I enjoyed the contest. |
JE3RMQ |
I enjoyed the contest. |
JE5HTN |
I enjoyed the contest. |
JE8UHY |
RIG: ICOM IC-7300 50W ANT: DP Operator's License: Japanese 2nd class Very fun contest. I want to spend much longer period next year. |
JF1LMB |
I enjoyed the contest. |
JF1OVA |
I enjoyed the contest. |
JF1TEU |
Amateur radio activities in 2024 have begun with the ARRL RTTY contest. |
JF1UOW |
I enjoyed the contest. |
JF2FIU |
Thank you all stations! |
JG1LHB |
I enjoyed the contest. |
JG1UKW |
I enjoyed the contest. |
JG2REJ |
ARIGATOH! |
JH1BHW |
I enjoyed this contest.Thanks lot. |
JH1JJV |
I enjoyed the contest. |
JH1KYA |
I vy enjoyed the contest. |
JH1WOY |
I enjoyed the contest. |
JH2LMH |
I enjoyed the contest. |
JH3DMQ |
Rig: IC-7300M ANT: 19.8mH V-DP(CD-330V) OATH: I swer PWR down QRP 5W. |
JH3FTZ |
I enjoyed the contest. |
JH6QIL |
I enjoyed the contest. |
JH7UJU |
FT-817ND DP Yagi |
JI1FWH |
I enjoyed the contest. |
JI1LET |
I enjoyed the contest. |
JI2IXA |
I enjoyed the contest. |
JI4WHS |
I enjoyed the contest. |
JJ1ENZ |
I enjoyed the contest. |
JK1HIY |
A happy new year. |
JK1HWU |
100w & Long-Wire, 23mL, 10mH CONDX was not so good on all band, but enjoyed with FTDX101MP & Touch-Pad. Using Ctestwin & MMTTY. |
JK1JAS |
79 years old |
JK4JMO |
I enjoyed the contest. |
JN1FAO |
I enjoyed the contest. |
JR1AQI |
I enjoyed the contest. |
JR3GPP |
Thank you for listening to my weak signal !! |
JR4CTF |
I enjoyed the FB contest. |
JR7ANB |
I enjoyed the contest. |
K0YQ |
IMO the DXing community needs to return to more RTTY focus. The King of digi modes should not be relegated to just contests. HNY all. |
K1DC |
This was certainly an exciting contest! It started snowing mid-day Saturday and didn't stop until the end of the contest on Sunday. Along with a foot of snow (~30cm) we had a power failure and stuck antennas due to ice and an unhappy controller. Thanks to Tony, K1KP, all the challenges were met and resolved. As in past events, 80M was a dead-zone, very little activity. The bright spot was 15M. I missed WAS by 3 (ME, DE & WV). I did check the contest scoreboard a few times and it was both incentivizing and demoralizing at the same time. The class leader has about 2x my score! I really need to learn the 'secret sauce'. I believe I set a personal best with 905 Qs in a 24hr contest. I'm looking forward to reviewing the logs and prepping for the next one! |
K2CYS [photo/doc] |
Great contest! Conditions were quite good. Had a lot of fun even though I had to work some on Saturday and Sunday. But got many hours in of operating time. It was a joy to operate in my newly renovated shack with the gas fireplace. Comfy, cozy and QSOy!! |
K3CCR |
K3CCR is the club station at the Collington continuing-care retirement community at FM 18OW in MD, just east of DC. N3UM and W5MPB did Multi-2 HP Assisted in the 2024 ARRL RTTY RU. We beat by far our best RU of 696 Qs, doing M-1 in 2022. SFI of 155 and low Kp helped. At 18Z start N3UM got 85 20-M Qs and 40 40-M Qs by 2225Z & quit to eat. From 18-2341Z W5MPB got 40 10-M Qs, 69 15-M Qs, & 27 40-M Qs. After a BK to eat he got 143 80-M Qs & 5 on 40 M 0009-0449Z QRT. Back at 2350Z N3UM got 91 Qs on 40 M, 59 in a run, and quit at 0246Z to return early. Back on 1231-1314Z, N3UM ran for 42 of 59 20-M Qs, most EU, then got 93 15-M Qs by 1624Z and quit to eat. On at 1403Z W5MPB got 58 20-M Qs & 24 10- M Qs by 1722 and quit to eat. Back 1830-2232Z W5MPB got 7 10-M Qs, 57 15-M Qs, & 42 20-M Qs. N3UM 1829-1939Z got 37 20-M Qs, then 124 40-M Qs 1950-2228Z QRT, 94 in a run at 63/hr. W5MPB got a last 39 40-M Qs 2236-2348Z QRT, & our 50th state, WV at 2332Z. We got YB & ZD7 but no far mults to the W; no JA, VK, or ZL. |
K3TW |
"Greetings from warm and sunny Florida." |
K7VIT |
Last QSO with K8TJM was logged seconds after 0000 UTC. I have included it in my log in case he was able to log it before the end. I really enjoy the RTTY RU. Thanks for sponsoring it. 73, Jerry |
K8LF |
A great ARRL RTTY Round Up. I think conditions were better on Sunday. I had less fun on Saturday. I setup dual decoders in N1MM as I usually do. I think some stations did not copy my call sign as when I switched to running on Sunday I had lots of station "big" stations I worked on S&P call me as a dupe. Worked plenty of PVRC members and some local chapter members. Off to a good 2024 contest year. |
K9WX [photo/doc] |
150 fewer QSOs than last year. Not sure why as operating time was only down a bit and the bands were decently quiet. I was able to copy a lot of very weak signals. Mults were up 5 which cushioned the blow to my score a bit. It took 18 minutes of calling CQ at the start of the contest before I made my first run QSO. Weird. |
KA0FSP |
I did all mine on ten meters! Was a blast! |
KB2DSR |
YAESU FT-450D W 40M OCFD, LINUX, FLDIGI, & FLRIG CONTEST STARTED WITH GOOD WX AND ENDED WITH A SNOWSTORM. HAD TO TAKE BREAKS TO SHOVEL! ALSO CHAPERONED MY KID'S SLEEPOVER. BUSY NIGHT/DAY! |
KB3IAI |
NO COMMENTS |
KB8UIP |
First time trying RTTY. Used Yaesu FT-891 with MJF-2010 OCFD, fldigi, acoustic coupling, combined with manual PTT. |
KC0INP |
I am fairly new to rtty only started using RTTY since I got a new rig for Christmas in 2022 so very happy to take part in this contest mode. Enjoyed the good conditions and the activity which kept me busy. Now I have to finish up setting my station up for CQ mode on RTTY. Had too much fun answering CQs to take the time to configure it. These newer radios make RTTY easy-to-use. |
KC1NBI |
When it's time to RTTY we will always RTTY hard! |
KC1NCN |
I'm gonna be hearing deedles in my sleep. |
KC4LZN |
Always a fun contest. Enjoy the activity and look for the next. |
KD4ACG |
Step 1: Learn how to operate RTTY on the rig. Step 2: Make contacts. Not an aggressive effort, but rather an opportunity to learn a little more about the mode, and how to make it work on my FT-991A in pure RTTY mode, rather than as a soundcard mode. 160 contacts, 45 mults, all on an attic antenna/HOA special...I must be doing something right. |
KG2U |
Great conditions & great operators. |
KG5EIU |
Good times!! |
KI7YFP |
All 20m contacts are 30 Watts or less due to antenna issues. |
KJ9C |
New computer, lost all my MMTTY setup, sent with K3 and paddle |
KK4R |
I wasn't very agressive about score in this one and spent too much time trying to get all the states and sections. However, conditions were good, and there were so many stations to work! It never got boring! Great contest! |
KK6L [photo/doc] |
With a 50% chance for a solar flare looming at any time, I worked the bands furiously until the frigid temperatures of my unheated garage drove me back into the warmth of the house with only about 100 Q's in the log. After a fitful night's rest, dreaming of all the Q's I was missing on 80 meters, I luxuriated in a hot shower before layering up for another slog in the 38-degree icebox/garage before church. Ironically, my shack is actually sitting on two chest freezers in the garage. Sadly, the kids needing wrangling instead. Arriving home at about 12:45 pm on Sunday, I put my lunch order in with the wife (she asked) and retreated again to the Frozen North, this time with a space heater in tow. Sadly, the space heater crapped out about the time my tuna sandwich arrived. With frozen hands, I searched and pounced around 15 meters for a while before dropping back down to 20 and then 40. I wasn't thinking straight and logged a few dupes before making a final push to break 205 (200 for my contest goal and another 5 to cover any dupes). I finally hit 206 with N7DSX being the last Q on 40 meters. Then, I remembered it was my daughter's 11th birthday. Good cake was then had by all. I may lose some fingers to frostbite though (j/k) :p |
KK7JUM |
Glad to be able to participate this year. Last year the shack just wasn't ready. Seattle had a lightning storm during the first day!! I certainly wasn't about to stop when new WAS states were out there for me to talk to. No worries, the storm passed to the East of us and tormented Bellevue instead. Still I have to wonder if the weather wasn't a factor in some of these new state contacts I got. |
KL7BSC [photo/doc] |
As the saying goes, it isn't an adventure until something goes wrong . . . . The first snag was my chosen site beings closed due to heavy snow, and the second was when I slid off the road on the way to my backup site. After lots of shoveling and 4WD time I managed to actually reach the Palmer Hay Flats and set up. The bands didn't open reliably until around 1100 local (not much sun for the ionosphere up here in the winter), and once they did it was still taking about 40 watts to reach the lower 48 on 20, 15, and 10 meters. Despite difficulties I managed a new personal best in the contest and had a ton of fun. RTTY is so much more fun than FT8! |
KM4RT |
ARRL RTTY RU JAN-2024 |
KM6JSR |
Need ARRL software for Cabrillo conversion |
KO0Z |
Good seeing familiar call signs as well as new ones. We enjoy this start of the year contest. Happy 2024! |
KT4Q |
HAD NUMBEROUS COMPUTER FALURES WITCH FORCED ME TO TAKE MULTIPLE BREAKS EARLY TO FIX PROBLEMS. NOT SURE HOW THIS WILL WORK WITH THE TWO BREAK RULE. EITHER WAY ENJOYED THE TIME I COULD WORK THE CONTEST. MISSED A FEW PROVINCES AND WV, ND AND DC. |
KU4V |
This is one of my favorite contests of the year - a pure rate only contest wherever you can find the Q's. and I warmed my seat as mcuh as physically able! Work All States and most Canada sections. scope interface to the Flex is the greatest improvement since sliced bread. and keyboard click to the next station, with a rate that was actaully better at times than CQ rates with my wire antennas and 100 Watts. contesters' and especially PVRC members. RTTY' stations on all bands. |
LA6CF |
Unable to hange serialnumber, have to hit the keyboard 21 times to change one serialnumber on my ICOM, and at 84 years of age, that does not work. Why not age, licenceyear, birthyear or date or whatever, so we dont have to change all the time? Dont ant to connect the ICOM to computer. Last time ICOM was destroyed (FT4 FT8, PSK) |
M0WGF |
January 6th ARRL RTTY Roundup |
M4N |
FLEX6400 to Doublet at 10M |
N0TJN |
KX2 RTTY only |
N2HX |
the best I could do with my wire Antenna hanging in a tree covered in ice and snow sunday only could run around 50 watts but had fun |
N3FR |
Another fantastic contest! The activity was OFF THE CHARTS! My best result for this contest due mostly to the new yagi! Thank you for all the contacts! This RTTY contest is one of the best as far as no pushing or shoving! Very enjoyable! Thank you, ARRL, for managing this event! Looking forward to next year! Bob, N3FR |
N4AOE [photo/doc] |
(no comments) |
N4CW |
Best performance M/S from this QTH in this RTTY Roundup ever! Jim had the best rate at 3 per minute on 15 during the first day. Worked every state except WV and missed a few Canadian provinces. Nothing blew up and the antenna didn't get stuck! sleep instead of working through the night. to all y'all for a fun time. 73, Bert |
N4IW |
This was the inaugural operation of my new Astron SS-50M-AP Power Supply and it performed flawlessly. It just loafed along at about 23 amps. If the cooling fan ever came on at all I never heard it. I had a little trouble getting things set up for the contest but once I got going all went well. I am still a RTTY and N1MM newbie but its always fun learning new things. Regarding the contest, I mainly worked S&P but did do a few Runs successfully late Sunday. I wish I had done more Running. I was able to Work All States except for Maine and Oklahoma during the contest. I still need to watch a pro operate RTTY, or at least a You-Tube Pro. I worked quite a few PVRCers but no one locally. I saw a spot for Jerry, W1IE, but when I went there, he was gone. All in all, it was a fun contest. |
N4MRM |
N/A |
N6AN |
Portable from two SOTA summits in Southern California. Hand sent RTTY with a KX3 @ 5watts to a 44' doublet made of a single CAT5e twisted pair suspended from a 6 meter collapsible fishing pole. |
N6HI |
ONE HALF WATT to a 20-Foot End-Fed Wire. Tnx for your patience and the QSOs. Go Arizona Outlaws! -73- John N6HI |
N9TF |
Murphy hit early in the week with a nasty dose of COVID, that took away all my energy reserves. 8 hours hear and there was all this old body could take up right in the chair. My XYL and I were both down for the COVID count this weekend. Not much focus on the band conditions. Focus turned to serviving in the chair, and just making contacts anyway I could. This is one contest I try not to miss if at all possible. 73 Gene, N9TF. 100 watts to 6BTV ground mounted. |
ND2T |
We lost a planned operator due to COVID, and one radio was acting up, so we changed our plan to be Multi-Single, and to take off some hours overnight. An operator had an audio problem making the TX signal distorted. Turned out to be a VPN issue, and was solved at the last minute. Our scheduled operators all showed up and spun the software well, with easy 3 hr shifts. We had a great start on 10m with rate over 100/hr. We worked our way down to 20m. We stayed high in Mults, thanks to the great antennas and terrain drop-off. We gradually fell behind in QSO count. The QSOs were 80 percent from the USA, especially Minnesota and Illinois. Sunday morning had a great run to Europe - always amazing from W6 California! |
NF6P [photo/doc] |
I had a blast from the RV, using the trusty FT-891, and end-fed up in the trees with elevated radials off the back of the coach. A part-time effort, mostly S&P, with a few short runs. I kept the radio at 50 watts most of the time to keep it cool. Missed WAS by one state, ME. Bummer. 418 Q's was my best contest effort in a while. I love being retired and traveling but still having the ability to ham and contest. |
NK4O |
Best contact was on 40m, 5w from Miami to Hawaii with a simple vertical :-). |
NW7D |
Fun contest, fair conditions |
OH8KA |
IC-7400, 100W, Butternut HF6V 80-10m clone and 20m delta loop. Nice contest as always! |
OK1HEH |
FT991 LW27m GAP Titan DX |
OK7O |
FT1000MP MarkV, PA Acom1000 - 1 kW dipol/80, 3el./40, 4el./20, 5el./15, 6el./10 |
OM8JP |
5 W, 3 band dipole (14,21,28) |
ON6AT |
TRX Yaesu FT-950 100W Ant R8 vert + Home Made Skyloop Still noted a few doubles. But they kept calling me to work, so in thelog. |
PA3DTR |
Thanks for this nice contest. CU in 2025! |
PE2K |
HNY 73, PE2K |
PY1KNG |
ICOM IC-718 40W ANTENNA VERTICAL 5/8 10~12Mts ANTENNA TUNER |
R8XF |
TX/RX: Yaesu FT-920 ANT: XL-222, DILOLE |
RN2FQ |
TKS FOR NICE CONTEST PWR_100 w, ANT_6el 3band Yagi, TNX FOR NICE CONTEST!de Igor. |
RV3DBK |
TX 5 Watts Ant Magnetic Loop (indoor) |
RX3ASQ |
Fine contest! |
S51J |
Working frome home, just for fun, with my FT-2000, AirspyHF+ and vertical antenna. |
SI3A |
YL-Operator |
SM5TOG |
SunSDR2 Antennas: KT34+dipole |
SP3MZ |
I sp3mz4@gmail.com |
SP9DTE |
100 WATTS ANTENA VERTICAL |
SP9KJU |
FT897 80W ANT delta loop |
TG9ADQ |
Antenna TH6DXX Hy Gain, Rig Yaesu FT-920 |
TK5MH |
Would like to have more time to participate. RTTY active on the bands |
UA4FX |
TRX: SunSDR2DX ANT: 80m- bozooka, 40m-GP Soft: MixW |
UA4HBM |
73! |
UR7EC |
Thanks for the good contest IC746 ant Delt |
US1IV |
TNX for contest ! |
US4UU |
FlexRadio Antennas: vertil |
US7UK |
Antennas: |
UT4LW |
Flex-6400 Antennas: Windom, Spider |
UZ1WW |
73! |
VA3RSA |
My equipment: IC-7300 at 50W running AFSK thru IC-7300 soundcard. Software: N3FJP Logger for ARRL-RTTY, N7YG Digital Engine for AFSK. My antennas qualify for the LIMITED category. Antenna 1: 66 ft long horizontal Windom up 25 ft and fed with single wire to an EMCOMM III 9:1 unun at ground level. There are twenty on-ground radials 13'-39'. Coax run is about 50' from antenna base to rig. Antenna 2: 21.5 ft vertical whip base fed with 4:1 unun. Base is 3 ft above ground and there are two elevated 14 ft radials. Coax run is about 80 ft from base to rig. Antenna Tuners: Palstar AT2K and/or IC-7300 internal tuner. |
VA3SB |
One of my favourite contests! Lots of activity and great signals. |
VE2EZD |
FT-950 |
VE2OWL |
Finally enjoyed a contest with great propagation conditions. Being with nice people enjoying RTTY, without solar flares and a quiet geomagnetic field helped a lot. |
VE3EDE |
First time on RTTY. |
VE7BGP |
I had a lot of fun operating the RU Contest this year. 73 Gery |
VK3KRL |
My first attempt at a non-SSB contest, a very different challenge. Not many people could hear my 5w tx, but happy with the few that did, and proved I had got it setup correctly. Learned not to trust the computer so much when it's responsible for more than just logging (i.e. N1MM, MMTTY, Cat control and serial sending) - lost my last QSO due to it changing window focus on its own, so hoping my memory of the exchange was correct (at least close enough for the other party to get positive points - even if mine go negative). |
VK4ZP |
Conditions were down on what was expected here in Brisbane Australia but I entered just to get a feel for the event. I have submitted my log as a check log. But I'll be back next year to give this contest a proper crack. 73 Peter VK4ZP |
VO1HP |
Ocean Remote K3-K3Mini; KPA500; KAT500; Remote Rig Interfaces 20-15-10 8el @ 35ft 80-40 ZIO Super Vertical 80-40-30 N1MM+ & MMTTY FSK Mode: Two days of config agony discovering how to make it all work with ESM Lingering question: How to edit the commands sent by the INSERT key? |
W0SD |
Wow! The band conditions were GREAT! Had a lot of fun with this one. year. Started off on 20 but there was no rate so we soon moved to 15. 15 was wide open and was our bread and butter this year. Happy that the two towers that were destroyed and all but a couple of the antennas that were destroyed in May 2022 by 100mph winds are back up and on the air! Hope to see you in the next one! 73 |
W0ZW |
10 m seemed to be a little weaker than I thought it should be, but other than that there were plenty of stations to work on all bands. Glad to see the level of interest by other operators in this mode. There is just something strangely appealing about hearing "diddle-diddle-diddle" up and down the bands. |
W1DGL |
Resubmitted Cabrillo due to a callsign error (typo) in the log. |
W1QK |
Thanks for the contacts. |
W3CHB |
First ARRL RTTY Roundup! |
W3TB |
W3TB in Franklin, TN - Tennessee Contest Group |
W4GHV |
G90 EFHW |
W4LX |
Today was an instruction day for club members to learn about RTTY and RTTY contestng. |
W4YVA |
Enjoyed it, didn't have much time this weekend due to post-holiday chores |
W5MF |
First contest in a long time. Thanks for all the contacts, |
W5UHQ |
GREAT CONTEST. USING STATE / PROVINCE VS OLD STANDARD OF ARRL SECTIONS KIND OF FOOLED MY LOGGING PROGRAMS. I CONCENTRATED MY EFFORT TO WORK AT LEAST ONE OR TWO STATIONS ON EACH BAND SO WAS A LOT OF FUN WATCHING PROP CHANGE SOMETIMES AT UNEXPECTED TIMES. ALSO I HAD TO FIND THIS CABRILLO TEMPLATE BURRIED DOWN IN THE LINKS SECTION TO VERIFY WHAT DATA TYPE THE ROBOT EXPECTED. |
W7NZJ |
Used old school PK 232 and Lanlink Software |
W7QDM |
I believe the rules governing on/off times are confusing and unnecessary. Why not just say off time is one hour or greater |
W8WWP |
First time ever on RTTY, had a blast! |
W9ADN |
Had to work during all the contest besides the last part but still has fun! |
W9RE |
First time to operate in this contest. |
WA1FCN |
This one reminded me of the good Ole days. Had a fun time on contestonlinescoar. I use 3 Tribanders on two short towers 2 el 40 @ 75 ft and squashed 80 loop |
WB0DHB |
First timer. Really enjoyed the variety of exchanges and operator courtesy. |
WG1V |
I had great fun in the contest, despite a winter storm that dumped about 12 inches of snow on us and brought down one end of my 80-10m end-fed dipole. I just wish I'd had more time to spend on 80m the night of the storm -- it was hopping with signals! |
WQ6X |
This was a WEIRD hybrid remote operation from WA6TQT's QTH in Anza. How do you run a remote station RTTY when it has no capabilities to do so Using the Elecraft K3/0-Mini to remote into WA6TQT's STN-2, the audio was routed into a classic RigExpert PLUS run by N1MM locally. Decoding the RX RTTY was easy. For XMIT, using VoX got around the lack of direct PTT control. I couldn't find the correct serial port cable to properly run the K3/0-mini, requiring the operating frequency to be keyed in manually. The decision was made to RUN frequencies as much as possible to make things easier. Overall, the band condx. were quite adequate for a RTTY weekend. Many thanks to all those stations who put up with my Questionable QRP signal. LooK for a picturesque write-up on this GiG at: http://WQ6X.Blogspot.com |
WU6X |
ATNO in last 5 minutes ... then forgot to log it! |
WZ6ZZ |
ANTENNA 10-80M EFHW |
YF3CYT |
we are member ORARI LOKAL KEDIRI - KEDIRI DXC TEAM |
YO2IS |
icom IC-7300, 90w, diamond CP6. 73 Szigy. |
YO3RU |
Kenwood TS590SD + ICOM IC2KL (Max 500W, used at 400W) Ant: 3 element multiband YAGI + Dipole for 80 and 40M |
YO4CVV |
TS-480sat, Delta loop |
YO4NT |
Horizontal Loop Antenna, multiband |
YO4SI |
RIG: KENWOOD TS-450SAT 100 W; ANT: FD4 |
YO5AXF |
FT-897D RIG, W3DZZ AND DIAMOND CP-6 ANT |
YO5YM |
PWR 100W ANT EFHW . TNX TO ALL CONTESTERS |
YO6CFB |
RIG: FT-897 100W ANT: FD4; |
YU1KT |
IC 7300 DIPOLE/GP ON 7 MHz 500 w On other bands 100w |
YW6CQ [photo/doc] |
QRP is not the best choice when band condx are noise and with deep qsb |
ZD7BG |
Band conditions were not perfect from the South Atlantic for this contest. Had to struggle at times but guess thats the way HF behaves |
ZL3VZ |
Enjoyed the contest. Operated portable from RE78BI. I wish to claim the Limited Antennas Overlay as I operated with verticals and a Windom dipole. Propagation allowed better band openings to the USA than on previous occasions but there were still long periods when, despite quite strong signals from North America, my 100W transmission just didn't seem to make it. My Off-times for the 24-hour section were: 01 - 03 UT and 15 - 19 UT. |
ZV8H |
RIG: FT-857D - ANT: MOSLEY TA33JR - PWR: 85W |