Re: [digitalradio] Comments on the JT65A and Olivia contests

2008-01-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Andrew O'Brien wrote:
 Of the 15 or so logs received so far, the comments appear to be.

 The bands (40 and 20M) were in very poor conditions

   
I'm sorry that I wasn't able to be as active as I wanted to be.  A 
family illness and a guest staying overnight on New Years Eve/New Years 
Day hampered my access to the station.

I did leave JT65A running, and I can email a text file of what I picked 
up if anyone wants it, rather than clogging up the reflector with it.

I made 3 contacts using Olivia, and one 'gotaway' that I did not count 
as he got my callsign slightly wrong just before the signals faded out 
completely.

My brief Olivia log looks like this (I will submit it properly Andy, 
don't worry :-)  )

7000 RY 2008-01-01 2101 DL8LE 599   
7000 RY 2008-01-01 1816 UT1XA 599   
7000 RY 2008-01-01 1734 IV3AVQNot Completed 
7000 RY 2008-01-01 1704 OZ1TMK599   

Cheers - Dave (G0DJA)

[digitalradio] Comments on the JT65A and Olivia contests

2008-01-01 Thread Andrew O'Brien 
Of the 15 or so logs received so far, the comments appear to be.

The bands (40 and 20M) were in very poor conditions

Both Olivia and JT65A contests  were considered tough.  Activity was
, according to early reports, higher in the JT65A mode .

Several JT65A WSJT users had difficulty handing a pile-up   (There
are some advanced features within WSJT where you can decode several
signals at once, but perhaps people do not know this).

Some folks mistook their local time for UTC time.

Several ZL's, VKs, and JA's on the JT65A contest



As for the comments that the contest was tough, that was expected.
The experimental contests take a lot of patience.

 JT65A as implemented in WSJT is not at all designed for conventional
contesting. Today's results are helpful for analyzing how contests
with JT65A could be conducted in the future (if at all!).

Olivia should have been easier, I did see 4 QSO's taking place in
Olivia 500/8 at the  same time on 40M, some die-hards stuck with 500/4
!


Andy K3UK