WAE RTTY 2025 Results

[Butch Washer]

Alright... Here is my pitiful results. BUT I still had fun, even though I had to swap computers during a break. The one I was using kept "pausing" for 30 seconds or so in the middle of decoding! I suspect it is short on RAM memory... That will be fixed!

There was a LOT of personal things going on and I only got 8.5 hours to operate. Hopefully I can do better managing of time in the future contests!

It looks like David AD4TJ got his STRIDE going full tilt in the High Power Class, but it is a tough one!

Jeff W4PJW ran out ahead of me just far enough. LOL!!

It was also good to see Fred KF4FC back in the saddle a little!

I did manage to work both Jeff and David.

This was about an average score for me in this contest, I've done WAY better!! I'm going to blame the Sun on my score as much as the lack of time in the chair over the weekend.

I usually have a TON of Europien station, especially Germans, but this past weekend the bands were terrible! The Sun choked the F layers to death!! I made about 15 Non - NA countries of which 9 were VERY weak EU stations and none were German.

Thankfully the SA stations were willing to give/receive QTC's which are something I count on as an equalizer for my limited antennas.

Anyway...Please see the Score Window below.

73 DE N5SMQ Butch Washer

[Jim Clymer]

Hello Gang,

Truthfully, WAE contests are not my favorite form of radiosport. Thot I'd at least give it a listen.

Fired up the rig on 20M, heard several watery EU stations, said, "Nah. Maybe next time."

Glad you guys had more gas in the tank than I!!

Jim - WS6X 

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[David Tanks]

  Well, you guys did fine for Low Power! Jeff actually made more

  Q's than I did: ~245 to my 214. QTCs saved me, again! Even

  though I had to delete 3 or 4 or 5 QTC sessions due to garbled

  info, I still had a bunch. I even sent 170 QTCs to the 182 that

  I received.

   

Contest: WAERTTY
 Band    Q/QTC  QSOs   Pts  Mlt  Pt/Q
   3.5     QSO     27       27   40   1.0
     7      QSO     64       64   84   1.0
     7    SQTC     10       10     0   1.0
    14    QSO     57        57   64   1.0
    14   RQTC     57        57    0   1.0
    14   SQTC     20        20    0   1.0
    21    QSO     57        57   56   1.0
    21   RQTC   115       115    0   1.0
    21   SQTC   130       130    0   1.0
    28    QSO      8          8    14   1.0
    28   RQTC    10        10     0   1.0
    28   SQTC    10        10     0   1.0
 Total    All     565       565   258 1.0
Score: 145,770
1 Mult = 2.2 Q's

   

  Even though my HF beam is only 20 feet high, high power helps!

  Europe didn't start coming in on Saturday morning until about

  6:15 am; Sunday it wasn't until almost 6:45 am before they

  were strong enough to work reliably. My inverted L was only

  17 feet high; didn't have the time/energy to put up the 50'

  tall version; besides, I wanted to be able to turn the beam, 

  as I suspected the higher bands would be active. 

   So, in 9 hours 33 minutes of operating in the Single Op

  High Power Assisted (although I never logged onto a DX Cluster)

  category, I managed only 145,770 claimed points, one of my

  worst showings in my history of working this contest. 

  According to the Contest Online Scoreboard, here are our

  placements:

   AD4TJ  SOHP   70th of 163

   W4PJW SOLP    60th of 163

   N5SMQ SOLP   66th of 163

   KF4FC  SOHP    160th of 163

   Like I mentioned in the N1MM group, we need to have some

  practice sessions before the actual contest, to help all remember

  how to do the QTC thing effectively.

  My equipment: TS-2000X, KPA-500: 300-450 watts out, TA-33

  at 20 feet, 17 foot Inverted L. I had to stop using the amp on 80

  as it was kicking out on a high SWR fault (ended up with 90 watts

  on the band). 

  Look out next year!

  David AD4TJ

[Fred Castello]

Gentlemen,

Good to see that you all got in there and racked up some scores.  My situation was a bit different.  I purchased a new computer in order to be "compliant" with Windows 11 and have been transferring all of my ham radio stuff onto this new computer.  I was asked by John Lasher to do a talk in January on RTTY.  I thought it would be helpful to get some video of what a RTTY contest was like, so that was what I was doing on the bands this past weekend.  As you all know, it is difficult to "hurry up" an installation of MMTTY and N1MM but I was able to get a functional station going enough to make about 5 contacts and was able to film 2 of them.  With your permission, I would like to put together this presentation and send it to you and see if you have any comments or anything to add before I give it at the meeting.  As you know, I am the newcomer here, so I would appreciate your input.

Thanks,

Fred - KF4FC