DL-DX RTTY Contest
Call: IQ1RY
Operator(s): IK1HXN, I1BEP, SWL_FEDERICO, IW1FNW, IW1AYD
Station: IQ1RY
Class: M/M HP
QTH: Bra, CN
Operating Time (hrs): 24
Summary:
Band QSOs Pts Mults
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80: 103 1157 30
40: 334 3951 12
20: 511 6189 89
15: 299 3518 73
10: 96 1036 30
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Total: 1343 15851 270 Total Score = 4,279,770
Club:
Comments:
What a great time!
This year the DL-DX was this: a great time contesting, full of friends
everywhere, thanks to all for all for the Qâ??s!
The major thanks have to be for the several Wâ??s and JAâ??s operators that
tirelessly have had the patience to overcome the not so good prop. They have
had signals small than usual, sometime it was somewhat tricky to decode those
not so well sounding tones.
The EU wall was quite every time present, at least for the first 12 hours
period, sorry for who didnâ??t come out from any hole to us.
The 80m and 40m bands didnâ??t worked as for the 2010, more noise and not too
much signals. This was quite expected.
There was a large band signal well placed on almost 21.080 MHz to 21.105 MHz
lately in the morning, radar?. Several of us tried to move out of the mud in
the upper band slice, but it was near the end of contest and not anybody get
it. The already diminishing traffic heavily suffered from this QRM, at least
from this side. That time, plain daylight, the 40m bands still worked for EU
Qâ??s, another load of DL's!
The 10m band went largely opened the first day afternoon. But, as a personal
opinion, not so many have made a trip so long out of a small a bunch of
operators or the skip was quite short also there. Well, better now than years
before.
A lot of I station not so far away from us where listened and contacted on 20m
and 15m, more from ours East than from ours South, some sort of short and
strong skip was also there.
The 7600 again well outperformed the 756PROIII in several aspects, the tricks
of the CAT commands inside the N1MM macros saved our pours fingers and souls
switching filters and the TPF in and out. This last was not so often useful as
it is a somewhat wider than the one on the PROIII, noisy bands made it
sometimes unusable. The 200Hz tricks that Don AA5AU suggested some time ago
helped and give us some relief, but not every time.
The N1MM in was great as usual. MMTTY greatest features, filters, worked well,
apart from the switching time â?¦ a second MMTTY window with a different filter
setup may help with the more elusive signals already in view. Not anybody get
into the tights filters needed for weak and faded signals. BTW several peoples
seems that doesn't have NET on or never checked out for any RX to TX
difference. It's quite usual and well expected, time to time it could happen.
TNX to the organizers of this every time nice contest, also for all their
efforts that doesn't end now. They will have just from now their time!
Well, CU all in the 2011 results and than in the 2012 for the DL-DX!
73 de iw1ayd, Salvo: one of the IQ1RY Team.
