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If you have not installed MMTTY or XMMT.ocx or do not know how to select MMTTY from the XMMT.ocx setup, read Preparing XMMT.ocx, MMTTY.EXE and 2Tone.exe for Use with WriteLogfirst. It is also assumed you already now how to select MMTTY from XMMT.ocx setup. We still have a lot to do to improve our digital contesting skills but we are making progress.These instructions are for setting up MMTTY in WriteLog using XMMT.ocx assuming MMTTY and XMMT.ocx have already been installed on your computer. SO2V operation allows us to use the second receiver in our Icom IC-7800 to tune a second QSO while we are completing another QSO in Search and Pounce mode. The 2Tone Decoder can do a better job decoding weak or noisy signals. We plan to add the 2Tone Decoder to our setup and enable SO2V operation for our next contest attempt. In many cases either MMTTY or the hardware decoder in our radio would decode key contest exchange information correctly when the other decoder did not. We also used the combination of MMTTY and the hardware decoder in our Icom IC-7800 as a means to have two chances to decode received information during weak or noisy QSOs.
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The following shows a segment of an example QSO using Call Sign Stacking to respond to both KB1OIQ and NE1RD after they both respond to our CQ: Call Sign Stacking allows the operator to grab 2-3 responding call signs after calling CQ and then respond to each of them without calling CQ again. Enter Send Message allows the operator to just hit the key to progress to the next stage of a QSO and automatically send the correct string. We made heavy use of N1MM’s Enter Send Message (ESM) and Call Sign Stacking capabilities during the contest and both of these features greatly improved our QSO rates. The N1MM logger and associated setup made a major positive difference in our score! We would recommend the N1MM/MMTTY combination to others who are interested in RTTY contesting. If our placing associated with our claimed scores holds, we should finish in the top 10 entries in our category for North America making this by far our best contest effort to date. We made a total of 1,562 QSOs, worked 609 prefixes, and worked 68 DXCC entities for a final claimed score of 2,981,664.
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The N1MM logger enabled our QSO rates to run as high as 130+ QSOs per hour at times. We operated in Running Mode for most of the contest. We operated mostly on 40m and 20m with some operation on 80m and 15m. Our experiences with N1MM/MMTTY and the new radio setup were very good. We operated for about 30 of the allowed 48 hours in the contest due to a major snow event and the associated cleanup at our QTH. MMTTY supports hardware FSK with this radio and this was also our first use of these capabilities in a contest. We used our Icom IC-7800 for this contest which has hardware FSK capability, Twin Peak Filtering and a built-in RTTY decoder.
WPX RTTY SOFTWARE
This was our first use of this software and we did some pre-contest setup and testing work using this combination to learn the new software and get it working with our radio.
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We decided to move to the N1MM Logger and the MMTTY RTTY Decoder for this contest. Anita (AB1QB) and Fred (AB1OC) decided to enter the recent 2013 CQ WPX RTTY Contest in the Multi-op Single Transmitter, High Power category.