[GreenKeys] 2018 ARRL RTTY RU

[Kevin H. Phillips]

It seems a shame the users of real machines can't be somehow set 
themselves apart in the contests.  I wonder if the FCC would go for 
MYCALL/GK or MYCALL/HM or MYCALL/28ASR?

I don't have my real machines in a convenient place to operate with my 
radio.  Like Wayne, I did not have time to work the contest much; just a 
few hours Saturday evening and Sunday an hour or so before the contest 
ended.  Propagation rarely does me any favors.  I usually don't even 
hear as many stations as some people report working.  I logged 95 
contacts but I guess that was good considering how little I operated.   
Even though I wasn't running heavy metal, my set-up is still kind of 
"vintage":  HAL DS3100ASR with ST-8000 modem keying FSK on my Yaesu 
FT-2000D.

I had one odd experience.  It happens to me at least once every contest 
I work.  I was trying to answer a W1, I think.  He'd ask AGN? AGN? and 
I'd repeat my callsign several times.  Finally, he turned off his macros 
and typed that I wasn't decoding at all because I was off frequency and 
went back to calling CQ.  As a back-up tuning method I run MMTTY on my 
computer and I had his signal right on the traces.  Anybody got any 
ideas on that?

73

Kevin
W5TTY

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