[Ham-Mac] FW: CQ WW RTTY AA5VU

[Dick Kriss, AA5VU]

The following is a copy of my posting to the CTDXCC and rtty-contesting
reflectors that may be of some interest to the Ham-Mac community.

I would like to see more Mac users in the RTTY contests.  My guess is the
main reason is the lack of contesting (not logging) OSX software.

Also, pease do not take my comment below wrong. The cocoaModem software and
its contest interface worked great.  The software was designed to support
contests like the ARRL RTTY Round Up - not the CQ Worldwide DX Contest.  As
a workaround I used the BARTG Sprint template to be able to log the CQ zones
and this forced me to give up logging of the states and provs.  The
cocoaModem RTTY decoding, sending macros, real time dupe checking, logging
and Cabrillo output worked perfect. The contest was fun!

73 Dick, AA5VU

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From: "Dick Kriss, AA5VU" <aa5vu at arrl.net>
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 12:20:09 -0500
Subject: CQ WW RTTY AA5VU

The Macintosh cocoaModem software worked great; however, the current release
does not provide a contest template for the CQ WW logging requirements.  As
a work around I used another template that logged zones but not states. For
this reason I did not attempt to calculate a score.  The 301 total QSO's was
a new high for me.  Happiness was being called by ET3TK and EY8MM - both new
(to me) RTTY countries!

Contest: CQ Worldwide DX Contest, RTTY
Call:AA5VU
Class: SOAB LP
QTH: Austin, TX
Dates: 24/25-Sep-2005

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  
---------------
   80:     0
   40:  102
   20:  138
   15:    46
   10:    15    
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Total:  301

Rig: TS-570D(G) to Tri-band Beam or W9INN Fan Dipole
Computer: Mac G4 1GHz OSX 10.4 and cocoaModem 1.15 software.
Club: Central Texas DX and Contest Club
CTDXCC Members worked: AB5K, AD0K, K5DU and N5KO (as HC8N)

73 de Dick, AA5VU

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