I really enjoyed the ARRL ROUNDUP RTTY.
I could have done better, but you can't always get what you want. It's a shame I lost a few hours,
but in the end, sleep and fatigue prevailed. And especially on 10, 15, and 20 meters, I couldn't use
the Hexbeam because it had some problems and is no longer on the mast. It's in the garden being
repaired.

So my antenna setup was as follows:
10, 15, and 20 meters: Inverted L for 160 meters, which I tuned with a tuner here in the shack.

40 meters: vertical dipole with feedpoint 14 meters above the ground

80 meters: full-size ¼-wave vertical.

It's a shame, because on the high bands, the vertical allowed me to transmit, but receiving was a
real disaster. I don't know how many multipliers I lost, but it was definitely a lot. Just look at
the vast majority of American and Canadian states and districts, which were built in 40 meters. And
that says it all.
On the other hand, I confess, I had a lot of fun. A lot, a lot, a lot.

I could enjoy the good contest.
Tnx for a fine contest again.
IC-7600, Dipole-Ant.

SUPPER

There comes a time in one’s life where sleep is more attractive than QSO’s…I have reached this
point. Please do not misunderstand, I love contesting (especially CW and RTTY) but a point has been
reached where sleep becomes more alluring than QSO’s. 

Utter amazement is the best way I can describe the 48-hour operators (i.e., N6MJ, KL9A, K5ZD, N5DX,
and many others) who possess qualities that most of us do not have. While I would never attempt this
myself (nor do I desire to), I truly admire those who are able and willing to do it.

Going into this contest I planned to operate 24 hours with the singular goal of beating last
year’s score. My station remains the same as last year; both the HexBeam and EFHW antennas are
positioned lower than optimal height but continue to operate effectively.

The contest began slowly with 31 contacts in the first hour on 10m, then 72 more over the next two
hours on 10m and 15m. Switching to 20m at 21:00z brought better results; after ten minutes of S&P, I
found a run frequency at 14.095 and made 189 QSOs over the next 1.5 hours. I'm still not sure why,
but the HexBeam is loud to both coasts, especially the East Coast. It's impressive to be able to
maintain a run frequency for so long with just one hundred watts and a beam set around thirty feet
high. After that session, I alternated between running and doing some search and pounce, finally
wrapping up at 03:30z with a total of 431 QSOs.

The original plan was to get six to seven hours of sleep, attempt forty meters before dawn, and then
gear up for what I hoped would be a strong European run on the high bands—though that never
happened. Instead, I ended up sleeping until 13:15z and spent nearly the entire day at the radio.
While I enjoyed a few good runs, I ended up doing more search and pounce than I would have liked,
but that’s how things went. In total, I wrapped up with 848 QSOs, ninety-six multipliers, and a
claimed score of 81,408, surpassing last year’s claimed score of 75,532.

Here is my breakdown:
Band     QSOs     Pts     Sec    DXC  
3.5          5              5          1           0   
 7            82            82        4           4   
14          413          413     20         5   
 21         248          248     14       13   
 28         100          100     16       19   
 Total    848           848     55      41   
 Score: 81,408 - Operating time: Approximately 20 hours

I continue to enjoy using the online scoreboard. When I finished at 03:30z, I was eighth. After
taking a sleep break, I slipped down to 18th place, but throughout the day I steadily climbed back
up towards the top ten. Seeing my progress motivates me to keep operating; otherwise, I would likely
finish stop operating much earlier. 

It was quite a thrill to have K5ZD call me on two bands. I remember working Randy back in the
1990’s when 2026 seemed far, far away. Even though I was away from the hobby for an extended
period, it is great to see he has stayed active over the years. I really appreciate all the
contacts—thank you so much. Looking forward to NAQP CW this weekend!

73, Jerry, AB5SE

Thanks for sponsoring the contest and to those who worked it!!
HNY

I believe I am eligible for the limited antenna with a meh full
wave 40m loop up 10 to 20 ft.

Operated first part of contest remotely as an experiment, which
was mostly successful.The only feature that did not work as
expected was "mouse rt click = enter", which was annoying but not
critical. An RFI glitch locked up the radio at one point, which
ended the remote experiment as I could not power cycle the radio
until I got home. Ther were a couple of strong stations that
would not decode the exchange properly. It was consistent across
two RTTY engines and multiple repeats. Conditions were generally
very good and I was able to stick to strong signals for the most
part. Wish I had more time to spend on this one!

Flexradio 6700
Antennas: Wire-dipols only

Fldigi, AFSK, VOX, IC730, 30 Watt,
ant wire 23m long, 4m up in a valley, so only three QSO stateside.

Icom 7300

ICOM 7610

Antennas:

Antennas:

First outing on RTTY in a number of years, I really enjoyed the event. Thanks to all for qsos &
attempts, particularly on the Sunday evening here when propagation fell apart. My take-home from the
roundup, is RTTY ops have very good “ears” :-) I was particularly pleased to get a few west
coast stations in the log.

Last 4 hours were _very_ hard work. Great fun apart from that, thanks to all that participated.

Ant:GP80m, GP40m,Yagi 3el SAY40m,
SAY 3-7, SAY 3-16.
TRX:  RedPitay 100wt

TNX

Good contest , but bug with my CAT Radio so perhaps  some qso on bad band.

Very strange propagation, qsb, noise, everythings to make harder
the little station to be exploited. thanks for qs'

Propagation wasn't stable, fluctuating up and down, so there were some dull periods. 
DX stations were more difficult to contact than usual.
The 10-meter band offered only few opportunities.


Nevertheless, I improved on my score from last year 2025, making 110 QSOs and 4500 more points.

Flex 8600M
Antennas: verticale  40/30/20/17/15/12/10 + dipol  80/40/30

4 elt Cubical Quad mono 28 mhz

58ft end fed

Only had a few hours to play, but had some fun!

Great contest

ICOM756pro 100w
delta loop, dipole

RIG:FTdx-101D PWR:15 ANT:DeltaLoop

First time doing ARRL RtTY from Europe, with my Polish Callsign,
and transmiting with LW and 80w from a Medieval tower in
Montagnana PD Italy. Due of other compromisses, had no time to do
10m, but was nice to go over 250 QSO's.73 DX and HNY (PY2NY)

KENWOOD TS450S  ANT. GP6

I3TXV - Leonardo Turolla
RTX: ICOM IC7100 - Max. 30W

Unfortunately, I didn't have much time. Total activity time was about
7 hours. For me, the 10-meter band was closed, along with a few
stations on 80 meters.

Pse control log

TRX KENWOOD TS940S ANT ENFED 23.5m at 9m gnd, Higayn AV680  fo 15 & 10 m. band

TNX x QSO GOOD PROPAGATION 10 mt SUNDAY - I'M USE ANTENNA ENFDWH
Lenght 40 mt. - BEAM NO INSTALL.
TNX FOR YOU JOB DR MANAGER. GL / DX RTTY MODE - VY '73 Op. Paolo IK2OVT.

rtx ic 736 25 w ant.mag. loop baby indoor!

TS-590SG  ANT. VERT AND  LW

FLEX 6600
Antennas: EXBEAM DIPOLE 40/80

Recently PSK modes are been forbidden in RTTY roundup contest, the only ARRL contest were they ere
admitted. Even before very very few stations used PSK during roundup, so no much difference has been
noted (and escluding FT* mode form contest is always a good thing indeed!)
    The new ARRL Digital Contest didn't solve the issue because it has immediately become an FT*
modes contest, nothing interesting there.
    A contest without progressive number exchange is a non-sense; US stations should exchange WAS as
well as in roundup contest. A list of usable modes should be published in the rules as well. Qth
locator exhange has been adopted only due to ft modes, but ft modes if are so limited should not be
privileged at all. At the oppositie ft modes should be modified to be compliant with contest rules!
There is no issue at all in PSK or similar mode (JS8 too) to exchange data as in any other contest.

    The need for an ARRL PSK contest esplained.
    After more than 20 years a serious PSK contest with same rules appliying in RTTY WW contest is
still missing.
    A contest with same rules of Roundup but limited to PSK modes will be of great interest. Same
rules means that power limit (available in other psk contests) shall not apply for High Power
category. By this way all big contest stations partecipating to RTTY contest will be attract to
partecipate in this new PSK contest, while are missing from present psk contests due to theirs
rules. Since PSK modes are by far more efficient than old RTTY, there will be a lot of fun for small
stations working the world with a few watts as well ! For small station RTTY is very challenging and
sometimes frustrating since 100W has to be considered a barely minimum power for RTTY dx.
    Power limitation is sometimes addressed by other psk contest organisers due to splatter nearby
stations. This cannot be a parameter since modern rigs have filters able to isolate a single PSK63
signal. The real issue nobody is addressing is that for inexplicable reasons in psk contest stations
are reluctant to leave the psk frequency allocation 14.070, 21.070 and to use the rtty frequencies
ususally empty when not used during RTTY contests.
    The mistake again are the current psk contest rules indicating the frequency segment that is not
adequate at all for contest (this is true expecially for 20 and 15 meters where at 14.074 and 21.074
there are FT* mode frequency allocations, in 40 meters here in Europe psk freq. is 7040 so there is
a lot of empty freq before ft8 frequency, in fact here the stations are more distribuited over the
band during psk contests)

    Frequency allocation for a seriuos PSK contest should be indicated and there is a lot of space
in unused rtty allocation (e.g. 14080-14120 as used during RTTY contests). In this way normal cq
frequencies like 14.070 21.070 etc could remain clear for non contest psk operations.

    PSK63 should be the "default" mode, but it would be a mistake to limit to only this mode, since
PSK31 could be useful in difficult conditions and for low power stations, as well as PSK125 is
faster than RTTY when conditions allow.

    PSK contest adopting RTTY one rules would be a great fun for any kind of station!

    After FT* modes introduction wonderful PSK modes have declined without any serious reason; that
is not good at all. A new ARRL WW PSK contest even if 20 years late, could greatly improve the
situation expecially with propagation conditions getting better.

    73 de Phil, iz1fks/ai4yn

High band CNDX was not so good.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

Thanks for the contests

Tnx FB Contest !!

RIG: IC-7600 + IC-2KL(500W)
ANT:: Dipole ,3ele Yagi

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest,
See you next year. Yoshi

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

RIG: ICOM IC-7300 50W
ANT: Mobile Whip
Operator's License: Japanese 2nd class
Very fun contest. I want to spend much longer period next year.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

Thank you all stations!

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

Rig: TS-890S(50W Model)
ANT: 20mH V-DP(CD-330V)
OATH : I using Vol to lower output to 5w.

I enjoyed the contest.

This is first time participating.

FT-817ND  IC-905XG EH DP Yagi LW

I enjoyed the contest.
POWER:100W

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

SEND New Year Message: "GASYOU"
PWR=50W  ANT(40m:Twin Delta Loop) (160m/80m:LW/DP) (15m/10m: 4ele YAGI)
Age=52 / RIG: IC-7300M

I used Power less than 5W.

I enjoyed the contest.

I enjoyed the contest.

Thank you for listening to my weak signal !!

I enjoyed the contest.

Well, I had _planned_ to be SO2R for the RoundUp...  I did test
having two copies of everything decoding and was able to switch
between the two.  However...   I failed to realize that I could
not hear both at the same time - DOH!  That makes it kinda hard
to run in one window, while S&P in the other.  Oh well... back to
SO1R for this one.
could not make any real  ground against the ops in front of me.
I thought I was doing pretty well, but obviously they were doing
better!  Good on 'em!
low noise although 15 was a bit of a disappointment.  20m was the
money band followed closely by 40.  80m was showing some promise
but I faded on Sat. and could not stick with the overnight to
take full advantage.  I blew way past my score from last year
(LP) by over 80k points!  I guess power does matter. ;-)

regardless of where I pointed the beam.
thanks for the Qs!  73, and see you in the next one!

K3CCR is the club station at the Collington continuing-care
retirement community at FM 18OW in MD, just east of DC. I (N3UM)
did SOHP Assisted in the 2026 ARRL RTTY RU. W5MPB was in OH, so we
could not do Multi-2 HP as we did in the 2024 ARRL RTTY RU. And a
slow leak in a tire on my car made it go flat after a few hours.
So, I walked the 0.2 miles from my cottage to the shack and back.
But, that was cold and risky after dark, along a road with cars. I
did 1 nom. 4-hr round trip Sat, & 2 on Sun. Walking, setup, & shut
down gave a net 10.4 hrs on. From 1835Z start, I got 52 20-M Qs &
16 15-M Qs by 2035Z + mostly EU DX mults. Then on 40 M 2045-2158Z
QRT I got 42 Qs & many St/Pv. I had 110 Qs & 52 mults, 26 of each.
On my way at sunup, 1243-1332Z I got 36 40-M Qs w/JA and 9 St/Pv
mults, incl. VT out to OR, WA, & BC. From 1350-1458Z I got 8 20-M
Qs, 27 15-M Qs, and 7 Ctys, nearly all EU. Then I got 26 10-M Qs
1504-1541Z & 7 more Ctys, EU + a few SA & NA. On 20 M 1547-1608Z
QRT I got 6 Qs for 213 total. Back from lunch 1828-2117Z, I got 57
Qs on 20 M & 1 in CT on a ~dead 40 M, then 16 Qs on 15 M 2122-
2200Z QRT. I went hard for mults, & got 20, 14 of them St/Pv. I
missed just 6 of 49; ME, DE, NM, OK, UT, & WY; few ops QRV there.

ONLY ABLE TO WORK A FEW HOURS

"Happy New Year from warm and sunny Florida!"

BEGAN CONTEST USING INCORRECT STATE IDENTIFIER NTX
USED SECTION NTX UNTIL 2005 UTC CHANGED TO TX

First RTTY Contest - WOW!

Limited time.  Lots of fun. 431 QSOs with one radio
in 4.8 hours.

Almost worked all states only three short. Missed the states I needed for WAS RTTY on 80 and 10.
Next contest maybe.

I did not log AA6AA on 10m properly. Added later as X-QSO with bad time.

Good contest.  Where was WV and many of the VE mults RTTY always
fun.

Long live RTTY. This contest was fun as usual. I found all bands 80 through 10 meters to have a lot
of activity, although I did not find as many DX stations as I would have liked, perhaps due to band
conditions. I entered under the limited antennas overly as all that I have at my QTH is an OCF
dipole fed at the 20% point. I am looking forward to the next contest, CW, SSB or RTTY !!

Flex 6600
Antennas: 160 Inv-L, 80 4sq, 40 rotate dipole, 10-20 tribander

First time ever doing RTTY

I only got to be in the contest on Sunday afternoon but decided to submit a contest log for the
first time. I had a great time and hope to do it again.

First-time RTTY contester. The RTTY Roundup came just in time to work out the bugs in my first RTTY
station as I'm getting ready for digital modes on Winter Field Day. Running 5W or less from an
IC-705 to a fan dipole (40/20/10) up 15 feet. Win11 laptop running Fldigi. 73 and thanks for all the
QSOs!

Had a great time! 

Equipment:
Yaesu FT-710 at 75W, 80M OCF Dipole, N1MM+MTTY+2tone.

Conditions:
I started on 20 and it became apparent right away it was going to be a slug fest, wall to wall
stations, and I found condx on 20 to be kind of erratic all weekend, at least for me.

Moved to 15 in the afternoon and it became the daytime workhouse and my rates started to increase at
a faster clip, also moved 10 and found good condx there on Sat. I mined these two bands all weekend
during the day. In the later afternoon, I moved back to 20 for a bit but found the same condx,
little elbow room and erratic. On 10 and 15 basically, if I could hear em I could work em.

In the evening I switched to 40 and found it noisy and busy but was able to move through it with
good Q rates then about 9pm local moved to 80 and worked a few stations but it was pretty slow.Then
back to 40m for another hour-ish and called it a night. 

Early Sunday morning started on 80 for an hour or so and found it hadn't really improved, worked a
handful of stations and switched to 40 which like the night before was busy but able to work thru
the band with better Q rates.

There was a lag in the morning where 40 started waning and I had to go to 20 earlier then I wanted
to, and hunted and pecked there for a bit. About 10:30am I moved to the daytime bands again (15/10)
and found 15 to be really active and solid for hours. 10 was good too... when it was on, I found
condx there to be up/down either it was on or it wasn't. I remember looking at the waterfall at one
point and there was nothing, nope, nada activity. HAHA. I mined those 2 bands for most of the day
switching back\forth between them.

Then ventured back to 20 and started on the low end and worked up to where activity ceased and again
it was spotty, some stations I could work, some I couldn't and some took persistence. 

Observations:
I got no propagation to S. America at all.
I expected more JAs on 10/15 in the afternoons but did not hear that many.

TLDR:
Had a great time!
10 and 15 carried the day.
40 ruled the night and morning.
Missed my friends in the Far East and Southern hemisphere.

Flaky software; otherwise it would have been fun!

Had a great time for my first time doing RTTY.  Thank you.

GLAD TEN METERS OPENED A BIT

We made the long drive back from Savannah (grandkids and
Christmas) a day early, so I was excited to be able to get in the
contest.  The plan was to go to NR4M for the multi-op, but I woke
up with a stomach bug from the grandkids and did a SO instead.
It was fun, but it was still disapponting to miss another
opportunity at NR4M.

Had a good time considering the beam was stuck on the L48,
rotor does not like 45 below!

Fex 6600
Antennas: JK 6BAJK

Flex-8400
Antennas: Vertical

very nice contest..tnx

I had a really nice time with this contest.  The property owner of the apartment allowed me to put
up a wire antenna from the apartment to the back of the property.  Temporary for the weekend.  The
antenna was an inverted-L with a height above ground of about 10 to 15 feet.  It was routed under
the utility and power lines at the apartment and the back end of the property.  There was plenty of
QRN.  The radio is the Icom IC-705, set to 5 watts.  The Icom AH-4 antenna tuner matched the 70 foot
long wire at the feedpoint.  There were some ground radials in the flower garden, between the
apartment and a sidewalk; but not many.  And I did a great job in imagining I was operating at the
legal limit.

Flex 8600
Antennas:

QRP 5 Watts OR LESS to a 20 Ft End-Fed Wire.
80 QSOs total. 13 Countries + USA & Canada.
Managed to get W.A.C. on 10m RTTY in this one.
DX worked with 5 Watts, USA & VE with  1/2  Watt.
Special TNX to 6 stations worked with 100 mW.
K5RZA, N800, KK5OQ, AA5AU, N7XS, K6RIM. :-)
NO PC, Used IC-705 built-in decode & macros.
Go Arizona Outlaws! -73- John N6HI

What a difference an amplifier makes! Last year I made 26 QSOs.

The bands were in bad shape here at my QTH. I managed a couple of contacts on 80 and 40 meters. 10,
15 and 20 meters where shut down.  Hoping for better band conditions in 2027.

It's the first RTTY contest I've been in in more than a decade.  The world has changed. Hassles with
software, local QRN, poor antennas, and even a glitch in the radio.
But it was fun enough, so I'll try more 'tests.

Operated portable from a POTA park! First time using the built in RTTY capability of my Elecraft
KX2!  It worked well!

N7BBQ

My only glitch...punching in the band's lower frequency "limit"
and having my receiver die at the same time. Then, after troubleshooting every
likely cause, discovering that the frequency I selected was on a different band
than the antenna I was using.

And I thought this only happens to others...

What a ton of fun this has been! I really hate to see it end. 73 to all and HNY!

Had a lot of fun making contacts on a rainy weekend!

Antennas:

I would like to designate my sleep time as my one big break, not my first two 30 minute breaks.
Hopefully the scoring algorithm has finally been fixed to handle this.

Conditions were not great but I had some excellent runs. Nice to
work so many SMC members, and having some friendly competition on
the Online Scoreboard helped with my total numbers. At one point
Sat evening we got within 1000 pts or so of PVRC, but I think
they sent out the militia. This remains one of my favorite
contests.

Bands were just OK. Signals from EU path on 10 and 15 had fast qsb
Sunday morning making some contacts difficult with repeats. Some qsb
would dip from S9 to S1 and back during the length of a transmission.
Most DX was usual western EU received here. I did work an EX9 early am
Sunday on 20m, loud and clear. The only other DX surprise I worked was
Tunisia on 40m about 30 minutes after local sunset, loud and in the clear.
In general, it seemed country representation in EU was down a bit from
past years. I missed any Asia, PAC or JA openings that may have happened on
10 and 15 Saturday afternoon/evening as I went to 40m early searching VE/U.S.
sections. I did at least make on JA contact on 40m Sunday morning just after
sunrise. As much as I wanted to put in a full time effort, I was only able to
operate 3 hours in the early AM Sunday, after putting in about 11.5
hours Saturday from the start, due to family commitments. A great way to start
off the new year with one of my most favorite contests! 73, Gene N9TF
Rig, K3S 100 watts to 6BTV ground mounted.

It's too bad that folks can't setup their rigs so they don't splatter all over when running AFSK.
Saw some today that were 200HZ wide.

Planned station was offline, so I used a WA station for
two short sessions, totaling up to 1 hour.  10m was open,
so no need for other bands. Worked some nice DX for QRP
from WA: VK9DX and D4Z.

NN7SS (K6UFO)

Flex 6600 at 5 watts
10m: 3 element yagi at 72 feet
Writelog, MMTTY and 2Tone

60' Multi band Sloper on 40-10m

Thank you for great ham spirit!
The time rules dont make sense, just say breaks must be 3h at least.

On Saturday the Aurora was strong here and no much DX. Happily Sunday was muc  better with lower A
and K=0. Quite good stateside prop on 10m also.

IC-7610, FinGin 1kW amp, hermes lite 1 sdr, klm kt34a frozen to 340 degrees and butternut hf9v.
thanks
for all the qsos!

FT991 LW27m GAP Titan DX

rig TS-570D, pwr 100 W, ant wire 21 m length, 26 m up

TS-2000, LW 27m

Flex-8400
Antennas: FB-33, 80m horizontal loop

operating 2BSIQ from our club OK5Z

ARRL RTTY roundup

Good Fun, sunday evening bands dead in EU...

Flexradio 8400
Antennas: SteppIr 2 element.

HNY 73, PE2K

SO1R Yaesu FTDX101D 80W 5-band wire

RIO DX GROUP

Antennas:

TNX73

RIG(s): KENWOOD TS-850S; ANTENNA(s): GP

TKS FOR NICE CONTEST
PWR_100 w, ANT_6el 3band Yagi, TNX FOR NICE CONTEST!de Igor.

TX 5 Watts Ant Magnetic Loop (indoor)

Antennas:

Antennas:

YL-Operator

73 de SM5SIC Gran

Antennas:

Yaesu FTdx3000

FT1000MP MARKV FIELD, ANTENNA VERTICAL

SUNSDR2 PRO
Antennas: W3DZZ

rig-IC746 ; pwr-100W ; ant-GP(7-28MHz)

ICOM-756 PRO-II  70 W
Dipole InV-40/80 m

GOOD CONTEST
IC 746 + DELTA LOOP

Flex-6400
Antennas: Windom, Spider

SUNSDR2dx
Antennas: 5el

73!

Using my new FT-710 with EFHW. It's been two years since my last RTTY contest. N1MM+ in FSK. 73.

Just couldn't get into the contest mode.

One of my favourite contests. With my humble 100W and an EFHW that barely clears the roof I enjoyed
a nice easy QSO pace while picking up a bit of DX along the way!

RTTY RU was a great way to start the new year of Contesting.

I love RTTY. A similarly inclined friend describes Fone contests
as, "Those shouty ones." 100 W on 1/4 wave mono-band whips on the
car. Limited antennas indeed. My trusty converted CB antenna for
15 m failed. A friend kindly dropped by with a 17' telescopic
which I pressed into service. By the end of Saturday local I was
pushing for 100 Qs and deciding that I wished to double that by
contest end as well as to try for a score of over 10k. I began to
apply some thoughts and comments I'd picked up from a recent (my
first real) MM at VE7RAC - in the RAC Winter 2025. It did help
for increasing my rate. At contest end goals such as I focus on
were met. I had a fine time. Used but the RTTY features in the
IC-7300. Tnx to all for the contacts.

I forgot to write down my DX partners' serial numbers.  This was my first time using FLdigi for
something serious.

Thanks for the RTTY contacts & fun on the radio. Tnx to the ARRL for sponsoring the contest and
processing the logs/results. 73 - Dan, W1QK

Thanks for all the QSOs. We choose the MM category only to eliminate band change restrictions. This
was a fully remote event with John in LI NY, Zev in NNJ and Marty in NC. We Still have some quirks
to work out, but a very successful operation.
Rigs: Icom IC-7610, Amps: RF Power RF2K-S, Alpha 87A
Antennas: F12 C36XL @ 55 ft, F12 C19 @ 50 ft, 80m Dipole.
Yaesu G-2800 Rotators controlled by Green Heron RT21 and MicroHam ARCO controllers.
Logging: N1MM+
Remote Software: Rustdesk and Sonobus
QSL via LoTW or SASE direct to CBA or W2 Bureau. PLEASE NO E-QSL - TNX

51+87 ft OCFD at 42 ft high

W3TB in Franklin,TN     Tennessee Contest Group

Tried out newest 80 meter vertical

Great contest under great band conditions (no lightning crashes..hi)
No rotator for my beam, but I still made a lot of q's off the side
Dipoles on 40/80

Tnx for all the Q's

What fun!!! Got almost all the bugs out Saturday and hit it off
and on Sunday. The challange of QRP and a Single Wire got me!
IC-705 remote and a 135' EFHW @ 40'. Can't wait until next year!

This is another QRP RTTY RU Run from Ramona.
This was an internet dropout riddled RTTY RU.
The goal was to set a 1st-time SOU QRP record for the SDIE section
(which WAS accomplished).  Unfortunately, spotty internet made RTTY
running completely impossible on Sunday afternoon.
I guess running from my Alameda office was not such a good idea after all.
Read all about it at: http://WQ6X.Blogspot.com.

This was my first time operating RTTY and my first contest using MMTTY, so there was a definite
learning curve. I ran into a significant issue the first night after switching to 40 meters—I
could not complete any contacts, and while transmitting my decode window showed gibberish instead of
my callsign and CQ text. I shut down for the night at that point.

After some reading, I learned that RFI can cause issues with computers and digital interfaces. The
next morning I added ferrite beads to all computer and interface cables, and the problem on 40
meters completely disappeared. Once resolved, the remainder of the contest went smoothly.

I do not have a permanent station at my home QTH and normally operate POTA, so this contest was run
using my portable station setup. I used an end-fed half-wave antenna that I typically use for POTA,
supported by a portable mast from HRD Industries (formerly Ham Radio Dude / Dude Tested). When the
contest ended, the antenna came down and everything was packed away—POTA style—keeping the
landlord happy 😉.

Solar conditions were quite good overall. A solar storm on Friday before the contest subsided and
the atmosphere recovered nicely in time for the operating period. Weather at my Mishawaka, Indiana
QTH was cold but cooperative, with temperatures in the 20s to 30s°F and no precipitation or
significant wind.

This effort provided a solid baseline score to beat next year and was a great learning experience in
RTTY operation, station grounding, and RFI management using a portable-style station.

This was my first serious  contest since a serious
health issue happended on Memorial day  last
yearr.  I hope to do even better by ARRL DX  CW
contest.....  It was fun watching Onlinescoarboard
I sure wish I could of stayed till the finish..

One of my favorite contests...
Missed DE and WY, no one home
Almost too many people on 20 Meters so it was hard to find a decent hole to operate.
Sometimes it was faster to S&P but Running was fun.
See you in the next one.
Bill

I have been licensed since 1976 and always wanted to try RTTY but for many reasons (mostly old
radio's and no sound card equipment for it) I never got around to actually trying it or any of the
HF digital modes included FT8 until this year with a recently purchased Signalink and my Yaesu
FT-920. I made my first ever RTTY contacts in this past weekends contest and I'm forever hooked! Had
a blast figuring it all out as I went!

This RTTY RU event had two purposes: 1) Demonstrating RTTY radio to a
couple of aspiring radio amateurs, and 2) setting a Multi-OP (LP) high
score record for the SDIE (San Diego) section.  Having people sit at the
keyboard in a RTTY contest, made them complicit operators - they were both
impressed.  Both goals were accomplished.

Later Sunday morning, I switched operations to run as W6R after which the
internet connection got the jitters making Sunday afternoon impossible to
operate.  Fortunately, WQ6X got enough OP time to set the SDIE record.

Read all about it at: http://WQ6X.Blogspot.com.

SUNSDR2DX
Antennas: HEXBEAM

Late start - Still a fun event!

Sempat ada gangguan teknis.
Salam sehat 
74

A malfunction in my laptop Windows thwarted my entry to the contest. However, maybe what there is of
my log may be useful to you as a checklog.  73

Yaesu FT-950
Antenna Mosley TA33JR