CQ WW RTTY 2025 – LX7I SOAB Classic
This was a fun weekend operating Philippes Superstation LX7I in the famous CQ WW RTTY.
As you can see on the Titel picture – RTTY is well alive and kicking!
The setup was really easy as I have decided to not bother with SO2RUN (2BISQ) or SO2R this time. I operated the classic category and there is only one radio allowed and no spotting assistance. Just pick a frequency and start running! Overall QSO rate over the whole weekend was around 74 QSO’s per hour with that one radio. No time to search mults manually, this would be way to slow. I hope that does not bite me at the end!
The station worked flawless and from start to end and I was able to compile more than 1800 QSOs in 24 hours. The score is 500.000 poiths above the EU record. I am courious what it might be good for.
I focused mainly on the fast bands and DX QSOs if possible, but unassised keeps the mult score down. I also tried to avoid slow hours, so when things started to slow down I took a one hour break and resumed play aufter 60 minutes to find rates again. I think it worked. My rates were above 70 and the first night on the low bands were more around 60, I decided to take some sleep at night and come back with the grayline.
Sunday afternoon 10m was rocking, but rates were a bit slower than 15m. So I decided to try 15m. It was IMPOSSIBLE to find a good spot without interference.
Is this frequency in use please? 🙂
After my main target the 24h classic hours were over, I just added some more QSOs for fun. WB2NFL reminded me that the sunday starts early this time with the Dublin game! So I was able to operate RTTY with a litle bit of NFL on the side!
At the end I was able to put 30 hours in and 2222 QSOs.
With only 30h this would not really compete with other SO/AB efforts but I wanted to pile up some points for the RRDXA!
In a few moth we will see what it was good for! I will update this page acordingly.
Thanks to all the callers and sorry for the ones I could not decode. I hope the error rate is low.
Thanks to Philippe LX2A for the oportunity to operate LX7I again!
73 and gd DX
Helmut DF7EE
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