First RTTY Internet sprINT Results

W2UP    105
K0RC     94
KF3P     90   
WS7I     87
KN6DV    82
K1IU     82
WB5B     80
W7RSJ    61
KB9KWL   59
VE7CFD   41
WA4JQS   37
VE7SOD   21
RA0FU     9
WF1B      5    
AB5KD     5



Comments:

KF3P:
Well, that was interesting! hi!  Next time let's do 40 and 80 or all 
3
bands...20 was well past dead on the east coast at the start and had 
a hard
time finding 4 stations to work (I worked KN6DV and WS7I over and 
over and..)
Worked 40 the first hour and 50 the second. We should also do the 
Name pass
next time...the exchange ended up being pretty bogus after the first 
time.
It sounded to me like there were a few KW's left running...at least 
part time.
Lot's of fun tho...especially working the fast back to back Q's with 
the
clueful.  My other radio is back at Yaesu, so was crippled this 
time...single
op/single radio (Boo hoo!).  Let's do it again sometime!

KN6DV:
This was absolutely great!! I had a blast and look forward to the 
next one.
40 meter was great.

K1IU:
Need more stations to participate. It was a lot of fun
for a new contest. 

VE7SOD:
Glad to have tried my first Sprint and RTTY to boot!
Had a good time and  managed to produce this log. I am using COMPRTTY 

program and HAL PCI 3000 card for RTTY and had a bit of trouble 
figuring out 
when I could work dupes. I hope you do this again and by then I am 
sure I 
will be a more proficient operator and rack up a higher score.

WS7I:
Wow! The action increased in the second hour. Two radios was 
completely
worthless as you can't tune that fast and there aren't any mults. 
Lots of
fun but keeping the same name makes it too easy.

W2UP:
Was a fun contest. A little slow at the beginning, but picked up
nicely the second hour. After working the same handful of stations on
20, went to 40 early, but nobody else was there! So back to 20.

Also, was a nice turnout of stations, including 2 non-W/VE stations
that showed up in many logs: RA0FU and CO2JA. Several active stations
did not submit logs.

Regarding the exchange, I agree that it was a bit lame. I don't want
to start the name passing as in the CW version, because it would be a 

nightmare to check the logs (I did it by hand). Unless there is a 
volunteer to write software to do it... I would like to incorporate a
QSO number into the next one (maybe late spring '97), if Ray is 
willing
to add it to RTTY by WF1B V3 (What say Ray?)

In checking the logs, I was pretty lenient. 2 stations had QSO times 
way 
off (one by 12 hours!). Remember that the exchange is name and QTH.
Several of you did not enter a QTH for RA0FU. Please do so in the 
future (no deductions taken for this). I only deleted QSOs for 
miscopied 
exchanges or violation of the dupe rule (most of the deletions). 
Points 
were deleted from BOTH the sender's and receiver's log if QSO was 
busted. 
Poor Bob, WB5B, lost 3 QSOs, none of which were his fault. All were 
dupe 
violations made by the other station.

At least one station was heard to be violating the QSY rule. Please 
follow the rules! 

It was great to have the QSOs flow from one to another, but it didn't
happen too often.  The tip is when you hear the callsign in the
exchange. In order to take advantage of this, I set up my buffers as 
follows:
F1 CQ INT DE W2UP W2UP K
F2 <1> DE W2UP BARRY PA K   this one for reply to a station when you 
                            solicit QSO
F3 <1> BARRY PA W2UP QRZ?   this one in response to other stn CQ, and
                            the QRZ to remind him it's ur freq now
F4 <1> DE W2UP W2UP
F6 NOT YET  QRZ INT DE W2UP K  for a call that you've worked w/in 3 
QSOs

73 Barry, W2UP


P.S. I'll post this to WF1B-RTTY reflector when the VE7TCP server is 
back up.








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Barry Kutner, W2UP                           Internet: w2up@voicenet.com
Newtown, PA                   FRC            alternate: barry@w2up.wells.com