[PPRAANet] W1AW/0 RTTY

[Jim Harris - W0EM via PPRAANet]

Hi Gang,

Since the start of the week for W1AW/0 (5/21) I have worked seven hours and close to 300 Q's.  Then, the power supply for the amp started making a popping sound occasionally so I thought valor was the better part of discretion and called it quits for the duration.  Hopefully, I can get to take a look at it in a day or two and get it going again without too much difficulty.

The first hour was on 15 meters and the remainder was on 20.  Conditions were varied but never really good.  I did manage two European Russian (one off the side of the beam) stations and another rare one that I forget at the moment.  The remainder were a mixture of European, Japanese and America stations.

I mostly worked split with "up 2."  Most people were well behaved.  It usually took a few minutes for the pileup to spread out so finding a workable call was usually not too difficult.  There was one or two case of deliberate QRM.  

2Tone far out performed MMTTY.  If I had to rely solely on MMTTY it mostly would have been a hopeless task.  I found "Flutter" and AFC off was the best choices on MMTTY.  2Tone AFC on and everything else normal was okay for it.

It was a very enjoyable experience.  Wish the power supply had not acted up.

Good luck to all operators.  If you haven't got into operating seriously consider it.  In addition to RTTY you can work SSB and CW.  See ppraa.org for details.  There are several more days until the end of the W1AW/0 week on Tuesday.

73,

Jim H., W0EM

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