[PVRCNC] Fw: NA Sprint RTTY K4QPL LP

[Jim Jordan]

>                    NA Sprint RTTY Contest - March
>
> Call: K4QPL
> Operator(s): K4QPL
> Station: K4QPL
>
> Class: Single Op LP
> QTH: nc
> Operating Time (hrs): 3
>
> Summary:
> Band  QSOs  Op Time
> ---------------------
>   80:  16        1
>   40:  27        1
>   20:  24        1
> ---------------------
> Total:  67     Mults = 31  Total Score = 2,077
>
> Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club
>
> Team:
>
> Comments:
>
> The ultimate learning experience. My first contest qso was my 4th RTTY QSO
> ever--and the other three were within 3 days of that. Why choose a known
> challenge like Sprint as my first attempt at RTTY, and doing it from 150 
> miles
> away remote as well? As they said of Everest, "Because it's there". 
> Anyhow,
> thanks to elmering from AA4FU I learned that I now know more than the RTTY
> "experts" at Ten-Tec and Kenwood whose default FSK rig settings and
> documentation bear no resemblance to the real world. I also know that the
> default N1MM settings and suggested F-keys are only slightly more 
> realistic and
> didn't help very much doing that binary run-S&P dance we call the QSY 
> rule.
> Fortunately a last minute hookup before leaving Raleigh of a remote 
> control of
> my Sixpak with help from W0UCE put me on the required three bands.
>
> The contest itself was interesting when I could get my head around the 
> fact
> that rate is a relative term and the technique for getting there is not 
> the
> same as CW or SSB. I consoled myself that even the HP hotshots were only
> beating my first effort sprint rate by about 3X ! My participation 
> terminated
> abruptly at 0330 when VE3 family arrived for a few days down here at the 
> beach.
> Arrival was expected but I was just hoping they'd be late!
>
> Will I be in the next one? Ask me again when I've recovered...
>
>
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