[Ham-Mac] FW: JARTS-WW-RTTY 2005 AA5VU

[Steve - VA3SPH]

Hi Dick and all:

I had a ball on the JARTS. My first real time trying RTTY contacts.   
I wasn't actually in the contest to compete but used it more as a  
platform to learn RTTY. I made some firsts for me but I am pretty new  
to HF. My First RTTY contact, First time contact in several counties  
like CUBA, SLOVENIA, Morocco even UK Base Cyprus. And First contact  
for me on 10 Meters (Conditions haven't been great I guess for us new  
HFers).  I am not planning on submitting my logs but I learned lots  
and perhaps I will submit in the future. I find contests are a great  
place to learn and explore HF abilities.

I had one interesting experience I can't seem to figure out.  I think  
it has to do with 40 Meter and use of upper side band or lower side  
band.
Anyway what would happen is I would have a fellow all tuned in on  
RTTY on 40 meters but when I contacted him he would change freq on me  
to answer
I gather he was on USB and I was on LSB?

Any thought or tips on this?  Is there a different rule for RTTY for  
USB/LSB use?
Another question if he moved to reply to me how did he hear me in the  
first place? (Hummm...?)

I am using iMac G5, CocoaModem and MacLoggerDX which worked great me  
and I didn't even use all the extra features these have for contesting.

Cheers & 73

Steve - VA3SPH

BTW.. Average age for my small sample of about 40 contacts was 55.   
Range was 73 to 26.

On 17-Oct-05, at 11:02 AM, Dick Kriss, AA5VU wrote:

> I don't recall seeing any of the ham-mac callsigns in the JARTS-WW- 
> RTTY
> contest.  The following is a copy of my note posted to the rtty- 
> contesting
> reflector regarding the contest.  Note the commentary at the bottom
> regarding the contest exchange of signal report and age.
>
> 73, Dick AA5VU
>
> ------ Forwarded Message
> From: "Dick Kriss, AA5VU" <aa5vu at arrl.net>
> Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 09:50:30 -0500
> Subject: JARTS-WW-RTTY 2005 AA5VU
>
> I played around in the contest for a few hours on Sat and Sun  
> morning and
> managed 239 SO1R QSO's with a Kenwood TS-570.  The current version of
> cocaModem software does not support the JARTS contest so I hacked  
> and used
> the TARA template. The JARTS robot found one error in my log. I had
> one YL's age logged as 599. After correcting the .log file to 99,  
> the robot
> accepted log saying:
>
>
>> AA5VU.LOG
>> AA5VU OK Your log accepted as Number 170
>> Your callsign will be appear on the LOG SUBMITTED STATIONS LIST  
>> within a week.
>>
>
> Anybody know the URL for the list of logs submitted?
>
> I was too lazy to manually score the log but my band totals are  
> shown below.
> The 3830 system will not accept entries without claimed scores.  
> Maybe Dink
> will add me to the bottom of the list like he did last time with a  
> nominal
> score to show I participated.
>
>                     JARTS WW RTTY Contest
>
> CALLSIGN: AA5VU
> CONTEST: JARTS-WW-RTTY
> CATEGORY: Class-B
> NAME: Dick Kriss
> CLUB: Central Texas DX and Contest Club (CTDXCC)
> ARRL-SECTION: NA
>
> Summary:
>  Band  QSOs  Pts  Mults
> ------------------------
>    80:      0
>    40:  104
>    20:    86
>    15:    49
>    10:      0
> ------------------------
> Total:   239
>
> Followed Don, AA5AU, on one QSO and know it was good because the other
> station's friends.txt file said Hi Don and Hi Dick in the reports.  
> I only
> had to use the "NOT AA5AU MY CALL AA5VU AA5VU" macro key once or  
> twice in
> the contest. HiHi
>
> One sad commentary is the average age of the JARTS-RTTY contesters,
> excluding the 99 reports from YL's.  I did not do the math but the  
> Mark I
> eyeball says it may be greater than 62. This is a sad commentary  
> for ham
> radio in general. This is truly becoming an OM hobby.
>
> Thanks for the 239 QSO's. I recognized many of the calls from the
> rtty-contesting reflector and enjoyed the contest.
>
> 73, Dick AA5VU
>
>