Call: DL6FBL
Operator(s): DL6FBL, DJ9MH, DK1MM, DL4NER
Station: DL6FBL
Class: M/M HP
QTH: Fulda
Operating Time (hrs): 48
Summary:
Band QSOs Pts State/Prov DX Zones
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80: 378 728 5 57 12
40: 471 1152 43 70 23
20: 607 1512 46 82 30
15: 469 1273 50 78 33
10: 288 799 47 50 21
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Total: 2213 5464 191 337 119 Total Score = 3,535,208
Club: Bavarian Contest Club
Comments:
40m: Yaesu FT-1000MP + PA + 2-el Quad @ 24m
20m: Yaesu FT-1000MP + PA + 3-el Quad @ 24m + 3-el Quad @ 18m
15m: Kenwood TS-850S + PA + 3-el Quad @ 24m + 3-el Quad @ 18m
10m: Kenwood TS-850S + PA + 3-el Quad @ 24m
80m: Shared station with 10m. Ant: Titanex Vertical + K9AY Loop
Four networked IBM Thinkpad notebooks (Windows XP Prof.) + Writelog v10.42 +
MMTTY 1.65 Plugin; Packet over TELNET (tnx PI4CC).
This was the first RTTY contest for most of the team. Only DL6FBL had operated a
few hours in SCC RTTY contest last month. We had to learn many things, and had
some software problems. Especially since using CW filters in LSB mode required
"low tones" and working with the RIT. The transmit and receive frequencies were
never "transceive", and very often MMTTY switched back to 2125 Hz mark instead
of staying at "low tones". Stations calling in could not be decoded before the
software settings were corrected. Sorry for us being lids... ;-) I'm sure there
is a setting inside the radio to provide easy RTTY operating, but we simply
didn't find it.
We wished we had one or two more operators. Only DJ9MH was there all the time,
DK1MM had to leave Sunday afternoon, DL4NER operated the first 9 and last 3
hours, DL6FBL only operated the night shifts. So we could not man all stations
all the time. Especially during dusk and dawn, one operator had to control two
stations simultanously, but this worked quite nicely.
Hopefully the propagation will be as fine during CQ WW SSB next month!
73 Ben
DL6FBL
http://www.dl6fbl.de |
