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From: iw1ayd@gmail.com
Subject: WAE RTTY IW1AYD Single Op HP
WAE DX Contest, RTTY
Call: IW1AYD
Operator(s): IW1AYD
Station: IW1AYD
Class: Single Op HP
QTH: Bra
Operating Time (hrs): 32
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Pts QTCs Mults
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80: 44 44 0 104
40: 353 353 180 192
20: 218 218 320 132
15: 214 214 90 140
10: 277 277 400 122
-------------------------------
Total: 1106 1106 890 690 Total Score = 1,453,140
Club: Rhein Ruhr DX Association
Comments:
TU to all for this great contest.
Well, several technical problems in the first bunch of hours from the start
made uneasy to fully operate the contest as I planned, SO2R on a single PC.
Anyway I was lucky to have had the possibility to resurrect half of the station
and to work quite flawlessly with it. Also much more lucky to solve some other
problems, "where is that damned mouse(!)", that plague any station rebuilt on
the fly. Those small ferrite cores are really the cure to stop quite every lazy
mouse and more.
I was much more lucky to find a bunch of nice peoples that keep up answering
several times on the noisy 40 e 80 meters.
The second night I almost sleep due to this.
Great contest, nice peoples and a lot of lessons to learn: what's better?
I liked a lot to QTC formula and as Don AA5AU last year caught me quite unable
to work out a QTC transfer, this year I have gone back to school before the
WAE. I have had interesting evenings of simulations, both RX & TX of QTC's. It
was easy as I was also testing new toys and macros for the SO2R. Happy to have
had an examination by Don again and that everything seems to be gone on the
right way. Don would you check please?
This year also I went in a QTC exchange with somebody really in trouble with
QTC's and I was really happy to stop it all and try with him in another way.
We succeeded! Great thing learning together. So my SO2R HP faults went on as a
gain for another guy at last, that's great for me.
The prop wasn't so good as it was for the WPX RTTY and for the CQWW SSB. It
maybe that the number of operators on air wasn't so large as then. But it was
much better than for the Makrothen, the second half of this last was a
nightmare on highers bands. The end was on 40m, with peoples exchanging QTC
until late.
BTW in the two fields of the I don't like QTC's and I like QTC I will stay in
second one I like a lot this mechanism. Even if the post contest work is more
unpleasant.
TU to the WAEDC staff for the effort to come, now we have to wait almost a year
to have again ours half of the fun.
TU ALL & 73 de iw1ayd Salvo
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011
WAEDC RTTY 2011 is gone
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Makrothen RTTY is gone, tomorrow WAEDC RTTY
IT WAS FUN!
Yes, I was operating from the IQ1RY premises as SO2R, first time in my life. As I already stated it was a lot fun.
Now I will try to replicate all this in the WAE, something more heavy to, isn't it?
For sure it is more heavy, 36 Hours as SO2R instead of 24, the need to make the right choices against contest timings, propagation, log grow up and much more things that are to be strategically and tactically to be considered. My elmers already settled me up and loaded of great ideas and suggestion, now it will be my time with some attention, horse powering and my ingenuity.
CU all there in the WAEDC RTTY 2011
73 de iw1ayd Salvo
Yes, I was operating from the IQ1RY premises as SO2R, first time in my life. As I already stated it was a lot fun.
Now I will try to replicate all this in the WAE, something more heavy to, isn't it?
For sure it is more heavy, 36 Hours as SO2R instead of 24, the need to make the right choices against contest timings, propagation, log grow up and much more things that are to be strategically and tactically to be considered. My elmers already settled me up and loaded of great ideas and suggestion, now it will be my time with some attention, horse powering and my ingenuity.
CU all there in the WAEDC RTTY 2011
73 de iw1ayd Salvo
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
45th ed. A. Volta Contest MO plaque IQ1RY
| Subject: | [RTTY] 45th ed. A. Volta Contest MO plaque IQ1RY |
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| From: | Salvatore Irato |
| Date: | Wed, 3 Aug 2011 13:25:34 +0200 |
Digital DXCC or ARRL Board of Directors, respectfully: have my strong disagreement
| Subject: | [RTTY] Digital DXCC or ARRL Board of Directors, respectfully: have my strong disagreement |
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| From: | iw1ayd |
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| Date: | Wed, 03 Aug 2011 00:32:16 +0200 |
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Hi to all. Just to read the doc abou and not my personal opinion go there: http://www.arrl.org/files/file/About%20ARRL/Board%20Meetings/2011%20Second%20MeetingMinutes%281%29.pdf ( Take care of the URL line fragmenting and about the dead space representation as %20 ) Abstract from "Minutes of the 2011 Second Meeting - ARRL Board of Directors - July 15-16. 2011" 29. On motion of Mr. Fenstermaker, seconded by Mr. Edgar, the following resolution was ADOPTED: WHEREAS the DX Advisory Committee (DXAC) was charged to investigate many aspects of the ARRL DX program; and WHEREAS Amateur Radio technology has advanced to include many variations of digital communication; and WHEREAS the DXAC has recommended changing the DXCC Award category from RTTY to Digital or RTTY/Digital or Digital Mixed; and WHEREAS the Programs & Services Committee (PSC) deliberated this change and, along with ARRL staff believe the best revised name for this award is Digital DXCC, and WHEREAS, the ARRL thanks the DXAC for its work on this name change; Therefore, it is RESOLVED that the ARRL Board accepts the recommendation of the PSC to change the title of the RTTY DXCC Award to the DIGITAL DXCC Award. What to say, there are no reasons nor facts by any means about the decision taken inside that document, as seen here in the abstract. The phrase " WHEREAS Amateur Radio technology has advanced to include many variations of digital communication ...", tells by itself all. Technology have changed a lot since the radio was only used for CW, sparking or funk (DL), in the meantime, since than and until quite now, there weren't changes in the radio technologies, accordingly to this 2011 sentence: unbelievable. So, RTTY was RTTY, Phone was Phone and CW was CW. Now, 2011, the silliest and subtle discovery that whatever is not Phone or CW must be called Digital, like several appliances we have on hands or at home. So CW, a digital mode by default and by any mean, will remain unDigital as Phone, they couldn't could not be assimilated. RTTY, that by itself haven't any remarkable nor visible soul as Phone o CW, instead will be fully assimilated. Yes like the Star Trek saga, "Any resistance will be futile ...". In the movie that was a nice characterization, now it is only an awful envision at best. Instead to clearly change anything, i.e. adding a Digital DXCC award - yes why not, now we are all assimilated as Digital Borg. Worst, leaving out more than half of the world that is already digital since than. The sacred soul of CW and its big weapons. Playing between presence or absence of a single signal and coding signs accordingly mean enough digital to my, any(?), eyes and my ears, but I would not start a religious discussion there. All the old DEC self instruction tapes have already made this point strong enough in the NRZ signals chapter, almost 35 years ago (just the clock/timing recovering may seems to gets out of the picture ... fuzzy or not fuzzy). Well done, another foot in the grave and nobody know how many of those we have to spare. Nemo propheta in patria. 73 de iw1ayd Salvo _______________________________________________ RTTY mailing list RTTY@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/rtty
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
NAQP RTTY Juk 2011 IW1AYD & IZ1TNL
North American QSO Party, RTTY - July
Call: IW1AYD
Operator(s): IZ1TNL IW1AYD
Station: IW1AYD
Class: M/2 LP
QTH: Bra (CN)
Operating Time (hrs): 12
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
-------------------
80:
40: 81 32
20: 283 50
15:
10:
-------------------
Total: 364 82 Total Score = 30,576
Club:
Team:
Comments:
Great time. IZ1TNL was also happy about her first experience, both of
contesting and contesting with her husband. I wouldnâ??t ask she what was more
heavy. Unfortunately the propagation wasnâ??t so good on 15m, 40m and 80m and
at last absent on 10m. As the 20m band, with five elements at 30m high, was
pretty well workable and open until late we resolved to stay there still
barefoot. The RUN routine went quite flawless but not before almost 21 UTC.
Prior to this time we experienced a lot, really a lot, of EU calls due to the
DMC contest running together with NAQP. A nightmare. After the first 15
minutes, since the NAQP start, we added a macro with â??HI NAQP NAQP ONLY NA
SORRY DE IW1AYD NAQP CQâ??. Having a â??NAQP CALL CALL CQâ?? in the automated
CQ doesnâ??t solved the question so when any call was thrown in by out of the
NA call signs we fired the added macro and continued the NAQP CQing. So, we
interleaved the new macro with the RUN CQ as one EU call was popping up in
between every two NA calls. This happened quite half of the time for 2 to 3
hours. Sorry for that but we couldnâ??t afford a contest in a contest logging
practice. It was a good practice to keep ourselves calm and motivated to work
on our objectives. We hope not to have been too much rude with all those other
friends. A simple read of the events/contest calendar may have solved this
issue, but no way to make it simple. A more simple look at the NAQP instead of
TEST or even DMC string may have solved at all this issue, but again no way.
A handful of US operators went up with out of contest QSO style answers in
between ours RUN and this was quite interesting also, as itâ??s not so often
that a EU station went so cherished by any US stations. It was a pleasure for
us and clearly a more big pleasure for ours correspondent. So we stopped the
contesting style RUN to have some form of fast QSOâ??s. Sorry to have been
late for somebody out there. But beading the happiness of somebody about a QSO
with a simple IW1 call is a pleasure. For example having a great time with a
dipole under the roof to make a QSO with EU isnâ??t a every day job, we all
need to remember this. Yes, 20m during the NAQP went very well, for sure.
We struggled on 15m and 80m calling running stations but there was nothing to
do at all. Lately at our local night and until the end of the NAQP tournament
we have had also something interesting to do on 40m. But not so much unluckily.
May be this season marked its hole about.
Having to train another operator, IZ1TNL my wife, was a pleasant job in the
contest. Sometimes I was tempted to be a little bit rude remarking some points,
but she managed increasingly well the radio that all went smoothly and we had a
good time practicing with all those needed tasks in a contest. Well the post
contest tasks are another history.
First radio used was a IC-7600, running quite hot but very well performing,
software was N1MM, plenty of macros, all worked pretty well. We have had a
really hot WX here, so it was a pleasure not to have the PAâ??s running nearby.
Instead of those the air conditioner have done a great job, but only for
ourselves, sorry.
73 de IZ1TNL Simonetta and IW1AYD Salvo
DL-DX RTTY Contest IQ1RY Team
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
--------------------------
80: 103 1157 30
40: 334 3951 12
20: 511 6189 89
15: 299 3518 73
10: 96 1036 30
--------------------------
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.
A. VOLTA RTTY Contest 2011 - IQ1RY team
Well: we win our category!
...
Volta RTTY DX Contest
Call: IQ1RY
Operator(s): IK1HXN, IW1AYD, IZ1LBG, I1BEP, YV5JDT/I1
Station: IQ1RY
Class: M/S HP
QTH: BRA
Operating Time (hrs): 22
Summary:
Band QSOs Pts Mults
--------------------------
80: 53 428 22
40: 265 2785 49
20: 485 7265 77
15: 193 3307 64
10: 5 65 4
--------------------------
Total: 1001 13850 217 Total Score = 3,036,183,150
Club:
Comments:
We had a blast, well we have had three (tens) or more blasts, during the whole
Volta contest and some more after since we get an helping hand from K3CT.
What we have done this time at the Volta RTTY Contest will be written in our
history for years here at IQ1RY. First of all: we enjoyed a lot any single
contact, thanks to all. The Volta is one of the nicest contest from our
standpoint and we enjoy participating it from here. Itâ??s a unique RTTY
business and the operators are consciousness and highly motivated about. We
operated, well we hardly tried to operate, during the event in five OM, two
in charge for the whole contest operating time and three as welcomed guest
operators. The major part of the contest went on as pure adrenaline, well
sometime it was too much quite to be dead on.
We started putting in front of the operating position the last year plaque we
won as IQ1RY in MULTI ALL BANDS. It was the right memento to all the operators
in charge over time. Things started smoothly reaching levels of pure
enjoyment as the local evening was coming. At night one of the blast was the
20m band fully open, as it was for the ARI International DX contest the week
before. But something was better than then. The 40m and 80m bands donâ??t
went abruptly closed, some more appreciable contacts on those band continued
well into ours night time, with the 20m band still working and 15m, well, so
so.
A big loud software bang. At almost the 04Z AM local, 02 UTC, the logger
reached over 900 QSO and went screaming about a runtime error. We werenâ??t
able to make a workaround to this until 08Z AM. In the meantime we have had
some contacts, during trying and troubleshooting the mess. All those
contacts, counting on two hands, where recovered but we furnished some
duplicated numbers. Sorry for that, but we hope that this would not have any
consequence.
After all we restarted one logger, it was almost the 80th I think, and gained
the ability to log contacts without problems. That was done with a workaround
and we knew that we will have to do a heavy work in the post-contest to
reassemble the whole contacts data base. We have now done it, successfully we
think.
As the contest ended we asked for any help from the N1MM development team. Oh
men, to make short a very long story. We had our last series of blasts after
the contest. But we are really lucky as we meet highly motivated and
professional peoples over there. Particularly instrumental for the solution we
had was John K3CT, TU John! You deserve all yours gratefully thanks.
Now Volta operations time for the 2011 is gone and we should be able to send
our results. WOW! What a bunch of blasts! Itâ??s radio, itâ??s ours world.
CU in contest!
73 from the whole IQ1RY RTTY team
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
GREAT! IQ1RY 3rd WW 2nd EU 1st Italy MSHP call of the 2011 ARRL RTTY Roundup
TU Mario IK1HXN, TU Filippo IZ1LBG, TU Renato I1DEP. TU to all the IQ1RY team that is working for those results.
But last but not least TU all, hope to CUAGN in other contests!
73 de iw1ayd Salvo
This is an abstract from the whole PDF.
Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability. - John Wooden
This year in the Multioperator, Low Power category it was HI3A taking the honors. The KP2D group
can‟t seem to shake the second-place jitters and took it again this year. Then it was the Europeans with a bunch of new faces in the Top Ten. UT7E was third. OH8KTN was in fourth and IW1QN fifth.
The big change this year was in the Multioperator, High Power category with what is usually an
all-European-dominated group. Hector, XE2K with just packet assistance won top honors this year.
OL8M operated by Pavel, OK1DRQ was in second place. Closely following Pavel was the IQ1RY group in third place. They related, “It was a first for us and we went through this learning the magic of the things.”
In the 2011 RTTY Roundup there was one new Continental Record set along with 35 new Country
records. There was not as much action here as propagation was difficult at times to many parts of
the world. No doubt next
year will likely be better.
Top DX Scores Multi-Operator Low Power
HI3A 111,647
KP2D 91,266
UT7E 68,150
OH8KTN 61,143
IW1QN 51,600
EA2DKF 49,808
OM3KWZ 33,540
UT8EL 32,116
YO5KUC 30,912
DF9ZP 30,108
High Power
XE2K 167,918
OL8M 154,580
IQ1RY 150,040
OK1DVM 146,816
ED1R 139,934
UW4I 139,411
OH8A 133,340
IT9BLB 128,344
UZ2I 120,310
PI4DX 98,197
But last but not least TU all, hope to CUAGN in other contests!
73 de iw1ayd Salvo
This is an abstract from the whole PDF.
2011 ARRL RTTY Roundup Results
By Jay Townsend, WS7I ws7I@arrl.net
By Jay Townsend, WS7I ws7I@arrl.net
Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability. - John Wooden
This year in the Multioperator, Low Power category it was HI3A taking the honors. The KP2D group
can‟t seem to shake the second-place jitters and took it again this year. Then it was the Europeans with a bunch of new faces in the Top Ten. UT7E was third. OH8KTN was in fourth and IW1QN fifth.
The big change this year was in the Multioperator, High Power category with what is usually an
all-European-dominated group. Hector, XE2K with just packet assistance won top honors this year.
OL8M operated by Pavel, OK1DRQ was in second place. Closely following Pavel was the IQ1RY group in third place. They related, “It was a first for us and we went through this learning the magic of the things.”
In the 2011 RTTY Roundup there was one new Continental Record set along with 35 new Country
records. There was not as much action here as propagation was difficult at times to many parts of
the world. No doubt next
year will likely be better.
Top DX Scores Multi-Operator Low Power
HI3A 111,647
KP2D 91,266
UT7E 68,150
OH8KTN 61,143
IW1QN 51,600
EA2DKF 49,808
OM3KWZ 33,540
UT8EL 32,116
YO5KUC 30,912
DF9ZP 30,108
High Power
XE2K 167,918
OL8M 154,580
IQ1RY 150,040
OK1DVM 146,816
ED1R 139,934
UW4I 139,411
OH8A 133,340
IT9BLB 128,344
UZ2I 120,310
PI4DX 98,197
Monday, April 4, 2011
Abbandonato - 150th country reached on LoTW by IW1AYD, TNX to all!
Il DXCC RTTY Award NON esiste più. E' diventato DXCC Digital Award: se lo possono tenere.
Non viene più perseguito dal sottoscritto. I miei log verranno comunque caricati su LoTW, ma ormai senza più scopo o interesse personale.
Scelta pessama. Impostazione da venditore di fumo della ARRL.
Salvo
Ovviamente SOLO RTTY o comunque data modes, qualcuno anche in WSJT e PSK31 con il dipolaccio multibanda sotto il tetto e /QRP.
Solo RTTY chiederete? Si, rispondo, perché esiste altro?
Obviusly only RTTY, some also in other data modes, WSJT or PSK31 with only a multiband dipole under the roof and /QRP.
Someone would ask why only RTTY? Yes, I answer, is there something different?
Many TNX to IZ1TNL and her patience and efforts supporting this strange Husband.
73 de iw1ayd Salvo
Award Credits: Selected: 150 Applied for: 0 Awarded: 0 Total: 150
Key: Selected · Applied
Non viene più perseguito dal sottoscritto. I miei log verranno comunque caricati su LoTW, ma ormai senza più scopo o interesse personale.
Scelta pessama. Impostazione da venditore di fumo della ARRL.
Salvo
Ovviamente SOLO RTTY o comunque data modes, qualcuno anche in WSJT e PSK31 con il dipolaccio multibanda sotto il tetto e /QRP.
Solo RTTY chiederete? Si, rispondo, perché esiste altro?
Obviusly only RTTY, some also in other data modes, WSJT or PSK31 with only a multiband dipole under the roof and /QRP.
Someone would ask why only RTTY? Yes, I answer, is there something different?
Many TNX to IZ1TNL and her patience and efforts supporting this strange Husband.
73 de iw1ayd Salvo
Award Credits: Selected: 150 Applied for: 0 Awarded: 0 Total: 150
Key: Selected · Applied
| Entity | RTTY |
| AFGHANISTAN | T6AF |
| ALAND ISLAND | OH0/PA0VHA |
| ALASKA | AL9A |
| ANGOLA | D2QMN |
| ANTARCTICA | DP0GVN |
| ANTIGUA & BARBUDA | V21ZG |
| ARGENTINA | LV5V |
| ARUBA | P49X |
| ASIATIC RUSSIA | RA9SC |
| AUSTRALIA | VK6IR |
| AUSTRIA | OE3EPW |
| AZERBAIJAN | 4J9M |
| AZORES | CU3/F5LMJ/P |
| BALEARIC ISLAND | EA6TS |
| BARBADOS | 8P9NX |
| BELARUS | EU7SA |
| BELGIUM | OQ0A |
| BELIZE | V31YN |
| BERMUDA | VP9/K3TRM |
| BHUTAN | A52RY |
| BOLIVIA | CP6/DF9GR |
| BONAIRE,CURACAO (NETH ANTILLES) (DELETED) | PJ2MI |
| BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA | E78CB |
| BOTSWANA | A25DF |
| BRAZIL | PY3KN |
| BULGARIA | LZ2BE |
| CAMBODIA | XU7XRO |
| CANADA | VY2SS |
| CANARY ISLAND | EA8BEX |
| CAPE VERDE | D4C |
| CHAGOS ISLAND | VQ9LA |
| COLOMBIA | HK6DOS |
| CORSICA | TK1CX |
| COSTA RICA | TI2HAS |
| CRETE | SV9COL |
| CROATIA | 9A2009OS |
| CYPRUS | 5B4AHI |
| CZECH REPUBLIC | OK5ZH |
| DENMARK | OZ4ADP |
| DESECHEO ISLAND | K5D |
| DJIBOUTI | J28KO |
| DODECANESE | SV5/DL3DRN |
| DOMINICAN REPUBLIC | HI8LAM |
| EAST MALAYSIA | 9M6XRO |
| EGYPT | SU1KM |
| ENGLAND | G0ORC |
| ESTONIA | ES7ABD/2 |
| EUROPEAN RUSSIA | UA1TAN |
| FAROE ISLANDS | OY4TN |
| FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY | DL6UNF |
| FINLAND | OH2LU |
| FRANCE | F1IWH |
| FRENCH GUIANA | FY5LH |
| GABON | TR8CA |
| GLORIOSO ISLAND | FT5GA |
| GREECE | SV2HRS |
| GREENLAND | OX3DB |
| GRENADA | J39BS |
| GUAM | KH2L |
| GUANTANAMO BAY | KG4SS |
| GUERNSEY | GU0SUP |
| GUINEA-BISSAU | J5UAP |
| HAITI | HH4/AF4Z |
| HAWAII | KH6MB |
| HUNGARY | HA5VZ |
| ICELAND | TF3PPN |
| INDIA | VU2NKS |
| INDONESIA | YB4IR |
| IRAQ | YI1RAZ |
| IRELAND | EI4GXB |
| ISLE OF MAN | MD0CCE |
| ISRAEL | 4Z4DX |
| ITALY | I5RFD |
| JAPAN | JI4POR |
| JERSEY | MJ0SIT |
| KAZAKHSTAN | UN1L |
| KENYA | 5Z0H |
| KERMADEC ISLAND | ZL8X |
| LATVIA | YL2KF |
| LESOTHO | 7P8OK |
| LITHUANIA | LY/ES2DY |
| LUXEMBOURG | LX1CW |
| MACAO | XX9TLX |
| MACEDONIA | Z36W |
| MADAGASCAR | 5R8KD |
| MADEIRA ISLANDS | CT3AS |
| MALDIVES | 8Q7LR |
| MALTA | 9H3TK |
| MARKET REEF | OJ0J |
| MARTINIQUE | FM5CD |
| MAURITIUS ISLAND | 3B8/SP2FUD |
| MEXICO | XE3RR |
| MOLDOVA | ER0WW |
| MONTENEGRO | 4O4A |
| MOROCCO | CN8KD |
| MOZAMBIQUE | C91TX |
| NETHERLANDS | PA4JB |
| NEW ZEALAND | ZL3RG |
| NIGERIA | 5N0OCH |
| NORTHERN IRELAND | 2I0SAI |
| NORWAY | LA5HPA |
| OMAN | A45XR |
| PALESTINE | E4X |
| PANAMA | HP1/IZ6BRN |
| PARAGUAY | ZP5CGL |
| POLAND | SP9FT |
| PORTUGAL | CT1EAT |
| PUERTO RICO | KP4ED |
| QATAR | A71EM |
| REPUBLIC OF KOREA | HL2DYS |
| REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA | ZS2EZ |
| REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO | TN5SN |
| REUNION ISLAND | FR5MV |
| ROMANIA | YO2RLC |
| RWANDA | 9X0TL |
| SABA & ST EUSTATIUS | PJ6A |
| SAINT BARTHELEMY | TO7ZG |
| SAINT PIERRE & MIQUELON | FP/W6HGF |
| SARDINIA | IM0QMA |
| SAUDI ARABIA | HZ1PS |
| SCOTLAND | GB1OL |
| SENEGAL | 6W2SC |
| SERBIA | YT2U |
| SINT MAARTEN | PJ7E |
| SLOVAK REPUBLIC | OM5TX |
| SLOVENIA | S52RA |
| SOUTH SHETLAND ISLANDS | DT8A |
| SOV MILITARY ORDER OF MALTA | 1A0KM |
| SPAIN | EA4AFA |
| SUDAN | ST2AR |
| SURINAME | PZ5RA |
| SWAZILAND | 3DA0VA |
| SWEDEN | SA5AEL |
| SWITZERLAND | HB9DHG |
| TAJIKISTAN | EY8MM |
| THAILAND | E21YDP |
| TOGO | 5V7TT |
| TUNISIA | TS7C |
| TURKEY | TA2ZAF |
| U K BASES ON CYPRUS | ZC4LI |
| UGANDA | 5X1NH |
| UKRAINE | UU3JC |
| UNITED ARAB EMIRATES | A61BK |
| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | AA3B |
| US VIRGIN ISLANDS | NP2KW |
| UZBEKISTAN | UK8AKK |
| VENEZUELA | YV5AAX |
| WALES | MW0CRI |
| WEST MALAYSIA | 9M2NNM |
| WESTERN SAHARA | S04R |
Monday, March 28, 2011
CQ Worldwide DX Contest, RTTY 2010
| Subject: | [3830] CQ WW RTTY IQ1RY M/2 HP |
|---|---|
| Date: | Tue, 28 Sep 2010 15:22:17 -0700 |
CQ Worldwide DX Contest, RTTY Call: IQ1RY Operator(s): IK1HXN, IK1SPR, IK1RQT, IZ1LBG, IW1AYD, IW1QN, I1BEP, IW1FNW. Station: IQ1RY Class: M/2 HP QTH: Bra (CN) Operating Time (hrs): 48 Summary: Band QSOs Pts State/Prov DX Zones ------------------------------------------ 80: 586 1204 21 63 16 40: 1008 2476 51 88 30 20: 1152 2918 55 95 33 15: 713 1922 52 85 36 10: 32 83 0 14 11 ------------------------------------------ Total: 3501 8603 179 345 126 Total Score = 5,591,950 Club: Comments: So, the Game of the games it's over for this year. We went trough all the CQ WW RTTY with more and more happiness and enjoined all the aspects of the competition, ending so happy that we feel astonished how well it went for us and ours new M/2 setup. Many thanks to everybody we meet on air and to everybody tried to meet us, sometimes it was really difficult to respond in the worse QRM we watched and listened, the crowd was terrible time to time. Somebody have had so much patience, tnx. This was the first year for IQ1RY as Multi Operator Two transmitters. The operators have gained the chairs time by time to increase theirs experience and move onto the new setup just done for this M/2 roundup in CQWW. Everybody learned his lesson and we hope to share all of those â??on the jobâ?? training experiences as soon as possible and quite formally, just not to loose any possible way to improve. We have had a simple target: manning this new setup of IQ1RY to make ours best in the contest and to reach at least 3400 QSOs. This was ours target and we, thanks anybody out there helped us to reach this goal. In the meantime we have had some technical problems, all was solved in a hurry: we had 3 power mains shutdown events, one transceiver abruptly gone, a PA suddenly switched out, several trains trespassing on the nearby railway. Last but not least, as we went over 3400 QSOs, we decided to share all together the deserved, tu IK1RQT prize a bottle of Ferrari brut that was quickly opened and shared at the end of the airtime. At the end we all have had a safe trip to ours homes, still having in the ears the RTTY sound and all those friend callsigns we meet on air. We hope to meet again soon will all those OM and others there and on air: just to have such a big fun as this. Special congrats to IK4MPG, IT9BLP and DQ4W team. IQ1RY operators: IK1HXN, IK1SPR, IK1RQT, IZ1LBG, IW1AYD, IW1QN, I1BEP, IW1FNW. 73 de IQ1RY Posted using 3830 Score Submittal Forms at: http://www.hornucopia.com/3830score/
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CQWW WPX SSB - 3830
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 08:28:16 -0700
Subject: [3830] WPX SSB IQ1RY M/2 HP
Call: IQ1RY
Operator(s): I1BEP IK1HXN IK1RQT IZ1LBG IW1AYD IW1ARB IW1FNW IV3ZXQ IV3BSY IK1SPR
Station: IQ1RY
Class: M/2 HP
QTH: Bra
Operating Time (hrs): 48
Summary:
Band QSOs
------------
160: 122
80: 604
40: 1220
20: 1270
15: 1332
10: 143
------------
Total: 4691 Prefixes = 1443 Total Score = 17,236,635
Club: Rhein Ruhr DX Association
Comments:
Happy days, we went through the whole WPX enjoying each single contacts and the
whole mess we work together. The prop was really strange and changing on every
hour much more than before.
Thanks to all contacted us, some more thanks to who have had the patience to
come through some heavy walls that we experienced time to time. Sometime it was
really hard to listen from this side, but all went in a friendly way.
Another thing we recognized is a lot of dupe, may be in the statistical view
are those are well numbered, but the view is that not only from ours site it
was hard to listen.
All went almost flawlessly since the first time through the whole contest, some
episodes, Q’s are quite remarkable, HH in the last five minutes was the candy
over a great and sweet cake.
We were honored by two guest operators, Maurizio IV3ZXQ and Alberto IV3BSY.
The tradition of IQ1RY, to have guest operators for ant phone or RTTY multiop
contest was continued with such a good guys. Theirs efforts for the whole
contest duration was invaluable.
The 20m band open until early local night and a somewhat open 10m bands may
seeded a change in tactics and strategy for the next times. We hope that ours
move in and out the bands during the WPX time went done accordingly to those
changes we are facing. Stations more South than us really appreciated much
better the 10m band.
A fast points and log examination has given us a big pleasure, as we went
working all together and the results compared to ours oldest targets are better
than before. It's nice and well done from ours standpoint.
Chapeau for the big stations we listened and recognized as some of our best
friends worked the WPX from there. We never forget to practice learning from
those.
It was a nice WPX 2011, see you all with IQ1RY in the next contests.
Flavio IK1SPR
Posted using 3830 Score Submittal Forms at: http://www.hornucopia.com/3830score/
DL-DX 2010 1st place WW for M/S Multi oper. Single TX - IK1HXN e IW1AYD
We win again, thanks to all the participants and to our work.
I learned again several lessons during this fun job: TU MARIO IK1HXN CU IN CONTEST!
With:
73 de iw1ayd Salvo
I learned again several lessons during this fun job: TU MARIO IK1HXN CU IN CONTEST!
With:
73 de iw1ayd Salvo
In between
We went to the Italian CTU.
IR1ITA activation: 150th birthday of Italy as a nation. Sponsored by IQ1RY team and IK1SPR.
IW1EGO is dismantling his actual antenna farm and rebuilding a new one.
... and maybe several other thing that I am forgotting.
73 de iw1ayd
IR1ITA activation: 150th birthday of Italy as a nation. Sponsored by IQ1RY team and IK1SPR.
IW1EGO is dismantling his actual antenna farm and rebuilding a new one.
... and maybe several other thing that I am forgotting.
73 de iw1ayd
Thursday, December 23, 2010
IQ1RY WW MO win in the 2010 VOLTA RTTY Contest
Manned by Mario IK1HXN & Salvo IW1AYD, the club station by the ARI section of Bra wins the 2010 edition of the VOLTA RTTY Contest. As WW-MO winners Mario and Salvo wish to thanks all the VOLTA Contest entrants. We are proud of this result together with all the OMs and YLs that are around IQ1RY.
The record from the VOLTA site is:
All this was done not only and alone by ours effort. We went there having the support from the whole group of HAMs that work each day for the club station. From the simplest job or task well accomplished to the more technical ones we have to thanks everybody of theirs respective work and effort. What we, manning IQ1RY for the VOLTA Contest, have done was enabled by the efforts of the whole group of HAMs here living and working since than.
TU dear fellows and friends from Bra and the neighborhoods villages and cities.
(bell) HOPE CUAGN (bell)
73 and best wishes from the whole IQ1RY team
The record from the VOLTA site is:
| WORLD WINNERS | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| CLASS | CALL | | CTY | CAT | QSO | PTS | M10 | M15 | M20 | M40 | M80 | E-M | T-M | SCORE |
| WW-MO | IQ1RY | EU | I | MO | 744 | 8674 | 1 | 46 | 67 | 63 | 32 | 1 | 210 | 1.355.225.760 |
All this was done not only and alone by ours effort. We went there having the support from the whole group of HAMs that work each day for the club station. From the simplest job or task well accomplished to the more technical ones we have to thanks everybody of theirs respective work and effort. What we, manning IQ1RY for the VOLTA Contest, have done was enabled by the efforts of the whole group of HAMs here living and working since than.
TU dear fellows and friends from Bra and the neighborhoods villages and cities.
(bell) HOPE CUAGN (bell)
73 and best wishes from the whole IQ1RY team
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
From FT-9000 group - Re: Flex-500A
You are right Daniel, at all.
The 1K-FA it's really touchy when driven without ALC. I have some experience driving it also with the PROIII and the FT-950, with the respective ALC well connected and it works more easily for sure.
I could confirm and say as mine yours words and opinions from my side.
I gained some compromise setups band by band after all my intense usage with my poor dipoles in a restricted town shack with a condo roof for aerials. It's not easy and during contest, at night, ... those happenings that you could easily leaved me so disgruntled that I was ready just for the bed.
As I reached a good compromise, with the driver left a 50% and the main power output control done via the TX gain with heavy steps, I never tried, for example, a software utility called DDutil by K5FR. It could be, if you have any interest or just curiosity about, interesting to have a look here:
http://k5fr.com/ddutilwiki/index.php?title=Linear_Amplifier_Management
This is not to convince you to get back on FLEX, but just to say that yours problem isn't only yours. As somebody other have a managed to find out a solution.
Actually all the major players are using a SDR core well surrounded by more traditional layout for ours toys. All this is more perfectible over time and with some investment. Also I hope that the market would permit to gain for us the ability to use ours best traditional setups with all the needed and seamless useful new features. The time will tell all to us.
By now I would still continue to use my beloved FLEX, brought by me, and a guXX brought in by another operator for the multi single club station IQ1RY. Those vacuum tubes are steady as a rock and not touchy at all when driven even at full legal power for limited test purposes. At home I will stay more low, as US legal power will light neighborhoods lights and would illegal here. RTTY at 300/400W it's mine limit, 500W is the Italian hamradio operator limit for any class, not mobile.
You know Daniel it's kind alike the food: each one, name one, have it's way to be better cooked around the seasons of the year not only by it's nature and kind. Flavor are different each time.
Next time you will operate a FLEX I hope to be by myself operating a FT-9000 and my 1K-FA. It would be a real pleasure IMHO. I just have to find where are all mi mics, anyway one the right will suffice ... If I just could remember where I stored all of those. ;-)
73 de iw1ayd Salvo
on response of ---
Thank you so much for your input. I read all that you wrote with great interest.
I am happy to hear that the SDR platform has worked well for you. One of my
greatest problems with the Flex-5000A set up is the lack of an ALC circuit. I
have an SPE Expert linear which is VERY "touchy" in terms of input wattage. When
there is an ALC circuit, it works like a charm, but without it, I find the
linear constantly shutting down with one fault or another. I have tried several
approaches. I may try one of the other Flex radios again in the future, perhaps
the even the next generation. They are always updating and upgrading. I am sure
that there will be other Flex platforms which will be a bit less clumsy. Their
panoramic display is 2nd to none. Hopefully Yaesu and Icom will come up with a
panoramic display like the Flex.
Well, thanks so much for sharing your experience!
Daniel -- W3DCB
The 1K-FA it's really touchy when driven without ALC. I have some experience driving it also with the PROIII and the FT-950, with the respective ALC well connected and it works more easily for sure.
I could confirm and say as mine yours words and opinions from my side.
I gained some compromise setups band by band after all my intense usage with my poor dipoles in a restricted town shack with a condo roof for aerials. It's not easy and during contest, at night, ... those happenings that you could easily leaved me so disgruntled that I was ready just for the bed.
As I reached a good compromise, with the driver left a 50% and the main power output control done via the TX gain with heavy steps, I never tried, for example, a software utility called DDutil by K5FR. It could be, if you have any interest or just curiosity about, interesting to have a look here:
http://k5fr.com/ddutilwiki/index.php?title=Linear_Amplifier_Management
This is not to convince you to get back on FLEX, but just to say that yours problem isn't only yours. As somebody other have a managed to find out a solution.
Actually all the major players are using a SDR core well surrounded by more traditional layout for ours toys. All this is more perfectible over time and with some investment. Also I hope that the market would permit to gain for us the ability to use ours best traditional setups with all the needed and seamless useful new features. The time will tell all to us.
By now I would still continue to use my beloved FLEX, brought by me, and a guXX brought in by another operator for the multi single club station IQ1RY. Those vacuum tubes are steady as a rock and not touchy at all when driven even at full legal power for limited test purposes. At home I will stay more low, as US legal power will light neighborhoods lights and would illegal here. RTTY at 300/400W it's mine limit, 500W is the Italian hamradio operator limit for any class, not mobile.
You know Daniel it's kind alike the food: each one, name one, have it's way to be better cooked around the seasons of the year not only by it's nature and kind. Flavor are different each time.
Next time you will operate a FLEX I hope to be by myself operating a FT-9000 and my 1K-FA. It would be a real pleasure IMHO. I just have to find where are all mi mics, anyway one the right will suffice ... If I just could remember where I stored all of those. ;-)
73 de iw1ayd Salvo
on response of ---
Re: [FTdx-9000] Re: Flex-500A
Thank you so much for your input. I read all that you wrote with great interest.
I am happy to hear that the SDR platform has worked well for you. One of my
greatest problems with the Flex-5000A set up is the lack of an ALC circuit. I
have an SPE Expert linear which is VERY "touchy" in terms of input wattage. When
there is an ALC circuit, it works like a charm, but without it, I find the
linear constantly shutting down with one fault or another. I have tried several
approaches. I may try one of the other Flex radios again in the future, perhaps
the even the next generation. They are always updating and upgrading. I am sure
that there will be other Flex platforms which will be a bit less clumsy. Their
panoramic display is 2nd to none. Hopefully Yaesu and Icom will come up with a
panoramic display like the Flex.
Well, thanks so much for sharing your experience!
Daniel -- W3DCB
From TS590 yahoo group - Re: Extra Filter Slots?
Hello to all.
I would associate my opinion with the same from Peter - HB9PJT.
Clear points Peter. Also the last one it's clever: " We will see".
One more point that I would give for discussion is that, citing the FLEX software and hardware architecture, a big enhancement in the filter shape occurs with bigger buffers. I mean those buffers in the DSP processor, as far as I know. This seems quite independent from the DSP algorithms used. I just leave the standard one offered by default.
What I mean is that when I choose inside POWERSDR(tm) smallest buffers. As to decrease latency inside those buffers, let's say a 512 bytes buffer size. The filter shape degrades by any mean. RTTY signal nearby 100/300 Hz from a 230Hz filter leaks visibly on MMTTY waterfall. There is also the associated audible signal in the speaker. With bigger buffers, let's say 2048 byte, there is a perfect shaped effect with the same IF filter. No nearby signals at all.
In RTTY or any other digital modes that is not CW I don't think that those IF buffers need to be so tight.
And there are several other aspects to benefit the filter shape and the whole IF circuitry response, as peter wrote. I could associate also MMTTY BF processing after all.
I have no doubt that as it's done by me manually, with the simplest cause and effects process, it could be done flawless and better by the firmware. This last would be made, i hope, around a drill down processing of all the choices involved in. But there is also marketing.
Nonetheless, as this will be firmware controlled inside a 590 there is the possibility that something could go wrong. We have a lot of transceivers that looks really interesting but that are at least poor in real world performance. Not to say that some of those are good as door stop from perspective to perspective. By any means a single button action, a mode change to an AGC set, have several things to set and reset, code & data flow. I hope that there was no the wrong approach during the development of this so hoped and nice looking RTX. "We will see".
The famous and over speak K3 have had and could have several changes on it's firmware. But the habit about is that everything is well done at any time and for any season. More a mental habit and perception than a real issue as for everyone other builder on the market.
Lastly, SDR are the answer for today needs. But there are strengths ans weakness as usual. Different words than in the analog world but same final problems. Not speaking about the void of software and human interfaces. What we see is that all the commercial builders are, for the greater parts of the work done, approaching the soft way to SDR. But this is another story.
73 de iw1ayd Salvo
I would associate my opinion with the same from Peter - HB9PJT.
Clear points Peter. Also the last one it's clever: " We will see".
One more point that I would give for discussion is that, citing the FLEX software and hardware architecture, a big enhancement in the filter shape occurs with bigger buffers. I mean those buffers in the DSP processor, as far as I know. This seems quite independent from the DSP algorithms used. I just leave the standard one offered by default.
What I mean is that when I choose inside POWERSDR(tm) smallest buffers. As to decrease latency inside those buffers, let's say a 512 bytes buffer size. The filter shape degrades by any mean. RTTY signal nearby 100/300 Hz from a 230Hz filter leaks visibly on MMTTY waterfall. There is also the associated audible signal in the speaker. With bigger buffers, let's say 2048 byte, there is a perfect shaped effect with the same IF filter. No nearby signals at all.
In RTTY or any other digital modes that is not CW I don't think that those IF buffers need to be so tight.
And there are several other aspects to benefit the filter shape and the whole IF circuitry response, as peter wrote. I could associate also MMTTY BF processing after all.
I have no doubt that as it's done by me manually, with the simplest cause and effects process, it could be done flawless and better by the firmware. This last would be made, i hope, around a drill down processing of all the choices involved in. But there is also marketing.
Nonetheless, as this will be firmware controlled inside a 590 there is the possibility that something could go wrong. We have a lot of transceivers that looks really interesting but that are at least poor in real world performance. Not to say that some of those are good as door stop from perspective to perspective. By any means a single button action, a mode change to an AGC set, have several things to set and reset, code & data flow. I hope that there was no the wrong approach during the development of this so hoped and nice looking RTX. "We will see".
The famous and over speak K3 have had and could have several changes on it's firmware. But the habit about is that everything is well done at any time and for any season. More a mental habit and perception than a real issue as for everyone other builder on the market.
Lastly, SDR are the answer for today needs. But there are strengths ans weakness as usual. Different words than in the analog world but same final problems. Not speaking about the void of software and human interfaces. What we see is that all the commercial builders are, for the greater parts of the work done, approaching the soft way to SDR. But this is another story.
73 de iw1ayd Salvo
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Just a great app SDR Console by HB9DRV Simon
Not just for the graphical integrated GUI idea but fo a lot more thing inside out.
Re: Flex-5000A
Hi all.
Not to be silly but just to trow in my 2 cents. Well, it's a bigger 44 cents coin at the end.
Sorry for the rather long message, I hope it's clearly readable due by my poor English.
Unfortunately I don't own any flavor of the FT-9000. It's quite out my target, well several of my targets. Nonetheless I am here and with other groups/mail to read the several interesting thing that come out every day.
My experience on FLEX is really positive. Mine activities are centered around RTTY, both Contesting and DX chasing. I like also to have real QSO kbd to kbd or simply air checks with this or any other digital mode. No ROS.
I have to admit that before of this radio I get almost acquainted with non SDR radios in half the time. The SDR took a lot of time just because there are so many switch, buttons and lists of values that I have had my time to get it running as smooth as I like. My latest try was with a FT-897 and is 300 Hz filter, just after reselling an FT-450. All went working in some hours, perhaps spreading the efforts over days. But nothing compared to the pure joy of the FLEX.
I am using a dedicated and protected PC with W7 32bit(!) for the POWERSDR(tm)radio application with a FLEX-3000. The software environment is completed by N1MM with MMTY or alternatively with MMSSTV, WSPR, WSJT. Last but not least Tmate help me a lot with the VFO fiddling.
I have had hard times running the HRD-DM780-LOGGER trio, virtual serial port emulation is quite a nightmare. Now it is solved with mini deluxe, a stretched application that emulate HRD and permit to DM780 and the LOGGER to run flawlessly. The HRD Logger is still the main logger, with HRD utils it help me a lot sorting all electronic QSL activities.
As a result s 26", 16:9, monitor is fully crowded mainly by the N1MM bits and pieces together with POWERSDR(tm).
This screen is my radio and my radio is on this screen.
Filtering and bandpass commanding is written inside CAT commands within the digital set of macro for the N1MM digital window: no radio touching is needed, all the operations are driven by the N1MM windows in focus. Quite the same thing went done before the advent of the FLEX, for filters and some other controls, with the PROIII/FT-950. Well, not all together, some in the N1MM and some in DM780, as needed by the different activities.
I have done several RTTY contests from my small pistol shack, helped by a 1K-FA, the Tmate USB device, a trackball instead of a mouse and a multiband V shaped rigid trapped dipole by Create.
I have also done, as with some new release the FLEX went more stable, some contesting from the biggest than mine shack of ours club, IQ1RY: astonishing!!!
This is a quite good DX site, not so far away and not so exotic, from here. The aerial and some other piece of the facility could be seen on and from ww.qrz.com
The FLEX 3000 is at least a good radio. I have have in view the band as I need. All is commanded via the N1MM macro buttons set. All is done almost via a mouse, seldom with the keyboard when not in a chit chat QSO. I just need to find a free spot, if there is one of course, to start a RUN session. Save the current QRG, look at the cluster when permitted or to the band in the panadapter to check out who is there to have a QSO more. He would be a multiplier, luckily, or simply another RUNner just to improve the rate.
By this time not SDR software is almost integrated by CAT and virtual and physical serial ports. 1K-FA frequency/bands control was done routing the virtual serial port CAT also inside a physical port, by the way.
During DX chasing it's almost the same. After getting the TX QRG of the DX stations it's just a matter of finding in a "view and click" a free spot UP to start calling. Having also the idea on whats going on even on my TX QRG and not only on the DX receiving QRG. This is similar to the double set of filters applied to the RX and TX QRGs VFO for YAESU. A different beast of what ICOM does.
Tight filters are really tight with bigger software buffers. I couldn't cry too much about my old and trusted couple of PROIII with theirs one shot TPF. Nor with the nice filters of the FT-950.
One thing that I have done is to retain the FSK style operations also in AFSK. The radio will be set dead on the RTTY tones, inside the RTTY filter, not clicking-clacking the mouse to get on the RTTY mouse inside the band pass. This is as FSK fixed radio must be used not AFSK ones. There is also a TX filter for RTTY, tight enough not to spread or spit everywhere unwanted tones. BTW I am running lower tones, mark is 1445 Hz. More pleasant to listen hour after hour, IMO.
Another thing that I was doing is to enforce the whole setup environment as to use N1MM any activity, QSO & Contesting. I have learned, over time, a good knowledge of the N1MM environment. Forcing myself to use it anyway since the start of this SDR adventure. I have not to say again that I was maxed out to do this by the first unfruitful bunch of approaches with virtual serial port and the SDR. Things that someone others seems not to have had. The change from DX and QSO activities to the Contest activity "desk", of that time, I simple switch over the related macro sets. Then I engrave it in the database reload information. Each one of these is cooked as needed and will come alone up in the deprecated case there is any application shutdown. Those sets are for the input window. Digital modes macro with filters and general RTTY sentences are the same whiting the digital mode windows.
Now I am quite a "satisfied customer", but still asking myself if there is the the real need to change anything out of the main antenna, something of a lack here in a dense urban area, to improve the general setup and, of course, the performances. I still look at mine other radios with pleasure and joy, PROIII, FT-950 and TS-870. I already get rid of several more new ICs and some older FTs (MP). I would also consider a Ft-9000 and is “smaller” brother the FT-5000.
I will need something to fill in the portable operation hole. But no way since now, there isn't the right piece of hardware out now. Owning FT-897/857, IC-703, and TS-480, for portable activities, doesn't help too much, also with 500 Hz or 300 Hz filters (remember RTTY!). I see to buy a portable PC to have smooth operations with the 3000 another nightmare that I wouldn't like to start by now. May be the 1500 should be a good starting point, but ... by now I have other priorities. I am in view also for the HPSDR project, the mercury standalone board. Actually it lacks the software facilities side, no CAT, no serials, in one one a good experiment but not to much a radio for the everyday use.
May be there are several aspects on witch I get so acquainted and that I even forgot to write all down here. ALC, RTTY TX filter and so on. There could be possible bunch of issues on some of these forgotten things but those last are quite working/solved here. At least I was lucky to find out the mix and max of related adjustments, for now.
73 de iw1ayd Salvo
Not to be silly but just to trow in my 2 cents. Well, it's a bigger 44 cents coin at the end.
Sorry for the rather long message, I hope it's clearly readable due by my poor English.
Unfortunately I don't own any flavor of the FT-9000. It's quite out my target, well several of my targets. Nonetheless I am here and with other groups/mail to read the several interesting thing that come out every day.
My experience on FLEX is really positive. Mine activities are centered around RTTY, both Contesting and DX chasing. I like also to have real QSO kbd to kbd or simply air checks with this or any other digital mode. No ROS.
I have to admit that before of this radio I get almost acquainted with non SDR radios in half the time. The SDR took a lot of time just because there are so many switch, buttons and lists of values that I have had my time to get it running as smooth as I like. My latest try was with a FT-897 and is 300 Hz filter, just after reselling an FT-450. All went working in some hours, perhaps spreading the efforts over days. But nothing compared to the pure joy of the FLEX.
I am using a dedicated and protected PC with W7 32bit(!) for the POWERSDR(tm)radio application with a FLEX-3000. The software environment is completed by N1MM with MMTY or alternatively with MMSSTV, WSPR, WSJT. Last but not least Tmate help me a lot with the VFO fiddling.
I have had hard times running the HRD-DM780-LOGGER trio, virtual serial port emulation is quite a nightmare. Now it is solved with mini deluxe, a stretched application that emulate HRD and permit to DM780 and the LOGGER to run flawlessly. The HRD Logger is still the main logger, with HRD utils it help me a lot sorting all electronic QSL activities.
As a result s 26", 16:9, monitor is fully crowded mainly by the N1MM bits and pieces together with POWERSDR(tm).
This screen is my radio and my radio is on this screen.
Filtering and bandpass commanding is written inside CAT commands within the digital set of macro for the N1MM digital window: no radio touching is needed, all the operations are driven by the N1MM windows in focus. Quite the same thing went done before the advent of the FLEX, for filters and some other controls, with the PROIII/FT-950. Well, not all together, some in the N1MM and some in DM780, as needed by the different activities.
I have done several RTTY contests from my small pistol shack, helped by a 1K-FA, the Tmate USB device, a trackball instead of a mouse and a multiband V shaped rigid trapped dipole by Create.
I have also done, as with some new release the FLEX went more stable, some contesting from the biggest than mine shack of ours club, IQ1RY: astonishing!!!
This is a quite good DX site, not so far away and not so exotic, from here. The aerial and some other piece of the facility could be seen on and from ww.qrz.com
The FLEX 3000 is at least a good radio. I have have in view the band as I need. All is commanded via the N1MM macro buttons set. All is done almost via a mouse, seldom with the keyboard when not in a chit chat QSO. I just need to find a free spot, if there is one of course, to start a RUN session. Save the current QRG, look at the cluster when permitted or to the band in the panadapter to check out who is there to have a QSO more. He would be a multiplier, luckily, or simply another RUNner just to improve the rate.
By this time not SDR software is almost integrated by CAT and virtual and physical serial ports. 1K-FA frequency/bands control was done routing the virtual serial port CAT also inside a physical port, by the way.
During DX chasing it's almost the same. After getting the TX QRG of the DX stations it's just a matter of finding in a "view and click" a free spot UP to start calling. Having also the idea on whats going on even on my TX QRG and not only on the DX receiving QRG. This is similar to the double set of filters applied to the RX and TX QRGs VFO for YAESU. A different beast of what ICOM does.
Tight filters are really tight with bigger software buffers. I couldn't cry too much about my old and trusted couple of PROIII with theirs one shot TPF. Nor with the nice filters of the FT-950.
One thing that I have done is to retain the FSK style operations also in AFSK. The radio will be set dead on the RTTY tones, inside the RTTY filter, not clicking-clacking the mouse to get on the RTTY mouse inside the band pass. This is as FSK fixed radio must be used not AFSK ones. There is also a TX filter for RTTY, tight enough not to spread or spit everywhere unwanted tones. BTW I am running lower tones, mark is 1445 Hz. More pleasant to listen hour after hour, IMO.
Another thing that I was doing is to enforce the whole setup environment as to use N1MM any activity, QSO & Contesting. I have learned, over time, a good knowledge of the N1MM environment. Forcing myself to use it anyway since the start of this SDR adventure. I have not to say again that I was maxed out to do this by the first unfruitful bunch of approaches with virtual serial port and the SDR. Things that someone others seems not to have had. The change from DX and QSO activities to the Contest activity "desk", of that time, I simple switch over the related macro sets. Then I engrave it in the database reload information. Each one of these is cooked as needed and will come alone up in the deprecated case there is any application shutdown. Those sets are for the input window. Digital modes macro with filters and general RTTY sentences are the same whiting the digital mode windows.
Now I am quite a "satisfied customer", but still asking myself if there is the the real need to change anything out of the main antenna, something of a lack here in a dense urban area, to improve the general setup and, of course, the performances. I still look at mine other radios with pleasure and joy, PROIII, FT-950 and TS-870. I already get rid of several more new ICs and some older FTs (MP). I would also consider a Ft-9000 and is “smaller” brother the FT-5000.
I will need something to fill in the portable operation hole. But no way since now, there isn't the right piece of hardware out now. Owning FT-897/857, IC-703, and TS-480, for portable activities, doesn't help too much, also with 500 Hz or 300 Hz filters (remember RTTY!). I see to buy a portable PC to have smooth operations with the 3000 another nightmare that I wouldn't like to start by now. May be the 1500 should be a good starting point, but ... by now I have other priorities. I am in view also for the HPSDR project, the mercury standalone board. Actually it lacks the software facilities side, no CAT, no serials, in one one a good experiment but not to much a radio for the everyday use.
May be there are several aspects on witch I get so acquainted and that I even forgot to write all down here. ALC, RTTY TX filter and so on. There could be possible bunch of issues on some of these forgotten things but those last are quite working/solved here. At least I was lucky to find out the mix and max of related adjustments, for now.
73 de iw1ayd Salvo
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