Here are the break down maps per band on contacts, didn’t go into how many contacts per state or anything.
RTTY RU 20m - 2010
RTTY RU 40m - 2010
RTTY RU 80m - 2010
Tags: RTTY
After the RTTY Round Up I am down to ONE state now for my WAS-Mixed from the Larkspur QTH. That state is Delaware. I didn’t hear a single operator from there or even a spot for it. I went “multi” in RTTY just so I could watch for WY and DE spots. I found WY (WY7FD, thanks Dwayne) with out the clusters. WAS-RTTY is closing in also. Think if every one confirms that I talked to this weekend, I’ll be down to about 6 states. We’ll see what shakes down from the QSL’s on LOTW.
Well, this definitely was a fun weekend. My intial totals are as follows:
165 qso’s
55 multipliers
9075 points
Total states worked 44, plus a few countries and Providences. This sets a new RTTY Round Up record for myself.
I was using the 857D running between the MA5VA and the Titan DX depending on band needed. Used HRD for my RTTY contacts and N3FJP software to keep my scores on the laptop. HRD did have a couple crashes during the 2nd day where it ran out of virtual memory. First time for that.
Not much went on during December. I sold the TS-B2000 to a OM in Iceland. Hope he gets good use of it. I’m down to the 857D back to taking it back n forth from truck to house. Figured I would consolidate a little since the plan is to move to an apartment again for a year or two. Looking at a Kenwood 710 type for the truck for the APRS option when going out EOSS chasing.
This weekend brings us the RTTY Round Up. 36 states currently for CO-WAS-RTTY, so hope to drop that total down, and maybe even finish up the CO-WAS-Mixed (WY and DE, I’m looking for you).
Put some time into this weekends Sweepstakes. Came to a few realizations:
1) Why the heck am I running precedence A when I know I have no chance of placing well in this kind of contest? I should be running “U” and try to work on getting a “Clean Sweep”.
2) The Titan DX while very helpfull on 40m, is just not cutting it on 75/80m. Time to save the coax and not have it fall on the neighbors cars and deploy the 40m capable g5rv jr for a test drive again.
3) living in a pit between mountains does indeed cause fits on reception. I barely heard NY/NJ area, never heard a DE, and what’s Canada? I’ll post a map soon with sections I managed to contact. Its an intersting comparison.
Overall, I did get a few more contacts than last year. 125 vs 103, so I’m going to send for my pin…Next year will be more of a challenge I think if I go back to an apartment rather than a house. But that will be a hurdle for next year.
Upcoming contest: ARRL RTTY Round-up on Jan 2/3
My first attempt at a public GoogleWave. You will need to have a GoogleWave account to use it. I don’t have any invitations currently to give out for people to try. But there are plenty out there right now.
https://wave.google.com/wave/#restored:wave:googlewave.com!w%252B2CNbPtVBC.1
Designed for ARISS reports for the APRS primarily but can be used for the voice or any mode.
-11/17/09- I fixed it.. its now a public link after all.. woot! sometimes you have to RDFM
Tags: ariss, GoogleWave
Last weekend, KDØBMW and I went chasing after EOSS flights 147 and 148. We only caught up to flight 148 after have been deployed all the way into Nebraska. Neither balloon made it that far, so after realizing that we headed back down into Colorado at a fast pace. I’ll put some pictures up probably tomorrow if I can get the moment, didn’t take many.
The payload for flight 148 landed in a windmill farm, so we got to get up close and personal to these beasts. I knew they were big, now I know they are REALLY BIG! Thanks to the site manager for allowing us on-site to recover the payload. The college kids were very pleased with their experiments.
If memory serves me right, flight 147 made it to 95k feet altitude, and flight 148 made it to 110k. Any wonder why they call it Edge of Space Science? I need to check on requirements for submitting a payload and send a camera up that far myself. I will have to mimic the MIT guys who hacked that Canon point and shoot, and get it launched.
Until the CQ WW RTTY contest not much went on for me on the Ham Radio Front. I didn’t participate in the CO-QP like I had planned, was a bit wrapped up in other hobbies that day.
This weekend was CQ WW RTTY, I managed only 42 contacts not because of the lack of propigatation, but rather than lack of my being awake. The big news of the weekend is more so on the local front, where I deployed the Titan DX finally. It’s on a temporary mount, tripod with a 10 ft pole and rope guy wires. I do need to make the connector more stable and add a few guys to it, but its out and did tune up nicely for 75/80 and 40m. I’ll still use the MA5VA for 20 meter duty I think, I was getting out better on that than the Titan. I’ll post a list of countries worked in a bit, but most was old Soviet block stuff.
Get your name on the Mars Laboratory Science Rover when it goes to Mars. NASA is printing names of participants on a micro chip that will ride on the rover, they had a simliar progarm with LRO that is currently in flight.
click the link to get your name & call on it, I just put my call after my last name.
JPL Website for MLSR
20m propagation map
40m propagation
I worked the NAQP-SSB last night for about 11 hours. 85 contacts only, most of those on 20. Finally got in some 40m starting around 9pm local (MDT) and having worked the night before I tired out around 11pm. No contact on 80m and the 40 stuff was a fight. Living between two mountains, and having the G5 up at 8 ft only didn’t do me much .. hihi
I did get to talk to 4 states out of the 9 I need for my WAS basic, I hope that a few will confirm. UT, MO, MI, and VT. Never heard a peep from DE, heard serveral ND’s on 40m but they were not calling but rather working S&P like I was. Maybe one of these contests I’ll make the plung and start calling rather than looking. Think a RTTY contest will be the best place to start that trend.
My 80m dipole I strung was worthless for TX, again not bad for RX. I threw the BIG G5 up in a hurry and got it out over the garage on the arms, and then snaked the ladder line around under things around back. It got me some of the 40 stuff. I used the MA5VA-6m for the 20 and 15 stuff. I’m liking it so far, I just wish conditions were better. 35 days of no sunspots sure was noticable.
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