[PVRCNC] RTTY RU de KB1RI SOHP

[Eric Wagner]

                    ARRL RTTY Roundup

 

Call: KB1RI

Operator(s): KB1RI

Station: KB1RI

 

Class: Single Op HP

QTH: NC

Operating Time (hrs): 16

Radios: SO2R

 

Summary:

Band  QSOs

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   80:  188

   40:  216

   20:  211

   15:   37

   10:    0

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Total:  652  State/Prov = 53  Countries = 37  Total Score = 58,680

 

Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club

 

Comments:

 

Satisfying results for my second time running this contest despite a
conflict

with my grandsons birthday party that ended the contest for me at noon
Sunday. 

Came up ten short of doubling my SOLP Q's from last year on 6 hours less

operating time with substantially more DX mults.  I added SO2R capabilities
that

helped to add a handful of mults.  However, some gremlins showed up at the
last

minute.  My new SPE 1.3K amp worked great on the primary radio.  But,
discovered

my trusty 30 year old Kenwood TL-922 attached to my second radio wouldn't
key

up.  Cost me a 15 minute late start trying to figure out what went wrong. 

Defaulted to LP on the 2nd radio for mult chasing.  A few hours into the
contest

my #1 radio wouldn't switch into transmit.  Cost me almost 90 minutes

troubleshooting to discover that N1MM+ wouldn't key the radio only when it
was

on 40M until I made a Q on another band.  Something odd is happening with
the

SO2R keying that I need to figure out. Likely some configuration or SW
feature I

don't understand.  I didn't get all the SO2R automated antenna switching

projects done before the holidays, so I limited my #2 radio to a multi-band

Inv-L.  Hope to clear up the current gremlins and get the automated
switching

done before the NAQP contests.  Operator still needs a lot more work too! 

Thanks for all the Q's it was fun.see you all in the next one.