AB1QB Hard At Work During The 2013 CQ WW RTTY Contest

Anita, AB1QB, and I AB1OC, recently participated in the 2013 CQ WW RTTY Contest. Band conditions were fairly good, and we had some fun experiences in this contest. We entered the contest in the Multi-Operator, Single-Transmitter (Multi-Single) High Power category with a goal of finishing in the top 10 in North America.

Our Claimed Score for 2013 CQ WW RTTY

One of us was on the air for almost the entire 48-hour contest period, and we managed a final claimed score of a little over 2.7M, hopefully allowing us to achieve our goal for this contest. We were active on all 5 contest bands with the best results in terms of both QSO counts and multipliers on 40m, 20m, and 15m.

N1MM Setup For 2013 CQ WW RTTY

We again used the excellent N1MM logger along with both the MMTTY and 2Tone decoders. Using multiple decoders really helps get callsigns and exchange information correctly. Using multiple decoders to process the received transmissions (plus the built-in decoder on our Icom IC-7800 Transceiver) gives a 3-way vote on decoded QSO information.

A Notable Spot – AB1QB Booming Into Cyprus!

We focused on working into Europe and Asia/Oceania in this contest as these regions provided the maximum QSO point value and were both very active. As you can see from the above spot, we had a very strong signal into Europe and Western Asia which helped generate many QSOs while running. During the contest, we also worked quite a few contacts in Japan, with 120+ QSOs with operators in Japan.

We both had great fun during this contest and were very happy to post our best score yet in a contest of this type. We’ll anxiously await the final results when they are available.

– Anita, AB1QB, and Fred, AB1OC