I have not participated in a RTTY contest for several years although last year I tried but had issues with My home made digital interface and radio. I didn't know at the time but My windows 10 PC also had issues but thats a topic for another time.
The new digital interface a ,Yaesu SCU-17 and new PC a Windows 11 laptop both needed to have many options for MMTTY and N1MM set up properly. I thought this had been accomplished before the contest but not being familiar with FSK ---I have always used AFSK for RTTY before this-- and having a new digital interface was a challenge. Only after the contest started Friday night did I realize all was not well.
My set up was decoding signals very well but Transmit was only occasionaly working.I was busy for alot of the time on Saturday and only operated on and off.I had more time on Sunday when a very helpful contestant took the time to inform Me what He was seeing from me--or not seeing. Once I changed a few parameters My station was now working very good.
I tried to concentrate Sunday on 10m and 15m and even had good luck on 20m later. Lots of DX on My HF6V vertical and even several surprising ones--ATNO of North Macedonia and many European stations. I even heard Ukraine but pile up was too big. Final QSO count was 135 with a score of 33,528. Not too bad for the trouble earlier with My station set up. Works good now!!
I will post another time about the set up parameters but for now.......
73---Tim
