[Moon-net] ARRL Contest

[John Lemay]

Joe

You're right, it is possible to work without the logger. I understand that
at some time during the weekend N0UK Logger went down - there were a couple
of mails to that effect. It would seem that some ops felt naked without it !

I don't have Linrad, but the effect of opening out the TS2000 to 5kHz (or
so) was very interesting indeed - there were qso's just about every kHz and
a few between too.

I made a sort of band map, so that I wasted as little time as possible
listening to stations already worked. I'm a long-time ssb contester and what
I miss with WSJT is the ability we have on ssb to identify stations by their
audio long before I hear the callsign. (Or their "fist", chirp or clicks on
cw).

My score from a small station is nowhere near yours and there may be two
good reasons (i) I think you may be more familiar with the software that I
am Hi and (ii) maybe I missed activity by being asleep during the night-time
here.

Could you provide a brief breakdown of qso's against time ? Of course it's
quite conceivable that activity was high between say 1300 and 2000 gmt in
which case I missed nothing because we had no moon here.

Regards

John G4ZTR

-----Original Message-----
From: Moon-net-bounces at list-serv.davidv.net
[mailto:Moon-net-bounces at list-serv.davidv.net] On Behalf Of Joe Taylor
Sent: 12 November 2006 22:52
To: Moon-Net
Subject: [Moon-net] ARRL Contest

Thanks to all for another highly enjoyable EME contest weekend!

I operated my small 2m EME station on both JT65B and CW.  No loggers, no 
clusters, no internet, no telephone, no skeds.  I finished with 93 QSOs 
(84 on JT65B, 9 on CW) and 47 multipliers.

If anyone tries to tell you a small station can't make EME QSOs without 
assistance, don't believe them.  It's not only possible, it's a *lot* of 
fun!

A comment on operating procedure: using a Linrad receiver for the first 
time in a contest, I found that it is *much* more efficient for me to 
work in Search and Pounce mode than to call CQ.  To put it simply, I can 
find you more easily than you can find me.  \

As shown in the following table, nearly all of my QSOs were made in S+P 
mode:

QSO initiated by           JT65   CW
-------------------------------------
S+P, I called someone:       71    9
Someone answered my CQ:       4    0
Someone tail-ended my QSO:    9    0

If those using the loggers to arrange QSOs -- presumably "just for fun," 
rather than as contest entrants -- would develop the habit of staying on 
frequency after a QSO, I estimate that I could have made another 10-20 QSOs.

I will look forward to working old and new EME friends alike -- in the 
next contest, or any time!

	-- 73, Joe, K1JT

144 MHz: 2x10 xpol, 1.2 kW

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