NAQP RTTY - 2002

THE FLORIDA BOYS 

AF4Z 		274		128		32880
KT4FY		274		110		30140
K4PX		225		111		24975
WB4EQS		259		124		32116
KC4HW		286		127		36322

TOTALS		1318	

	600		156433

Soapbox:

I ENJOYED THE CONTEST IT IS JUST THE RIGHT AMOUNT OF OPERATION FOR SOME OF US
SENIOR CITIZENS. THE STORM INDUCED POWER OUTAGES AND MY XCEIVER GOING DEAF FOR
AWHILE JUST MADE THE EVENING INTERESTING. GEORGE K4PX

Worked total of 10 hours taking two 30 minute breaks due to thunderstorms
in area. Several close hits and had 2 power outages requiring rebooting.
They don't call it the Lightning Capital for nothing. Writelog recovered 
all my unsaved QSOs. After thruderstorms, my noise level was S9 on 15
and 20.  Once rain dried and bands returned, worked lots of NA and EU 
stations. Thanks to all I worked and hope you have as much fun as I did.
Don AF4Z

First of all thanks to everyone for the QSOs.  
We weathered the solar and weather storms here on the East coast of Central
Florida.  We had severe thunderstorms start right at the beginning of the
contest and lasted well into the evening.  Plus getting hit but the flair, made
thing pretty bad around here. Oh well, such is life in the "diddle fast lane". 
Had a good time and the station checked out pretty good.  Used the EWE receiving
antenna on 40 and 80 and it helped on the print.  All in all it was a good day,
any day playing Ham Radio is better than a day working!!  hi hi Jim/KC4HW

Typical summertime Florida constest--LOTS OF THUNDER AND LIGHTNING--on top of
poor band conditions. I got a chance to try out a new 80M superloop antenna.An
improvement over the dipole that I had been using, Not as good as AA5AU. Don
must be standing in water down thar in the swamps. He always has a strong
signal. It was fun anyway and my  score was better than last years.  Ron/WB4EQS.

This year's NAQP represents the first full contest run using the new MM II.
I had a personal best this time although I would attribute the score to a
great performance on 40 meters thanks to a delta loop from Jim Johnson.
However, noise levels and signal-to-noise for this contest were pretty poor
and the modem pulled out the data in even the worst conditions.  The escape
key did not work correctly but that will be fixed by a new version of
RTTYRite thanks to Wayne Wright that includes the MM II in the list of
terminal units.
Remember, I am depending on each of you to run these modems and give me
feedback on performance and bugs.  It makes for a better product. Steve/KT4FY


The Florida Boys (FLABOYS)

AF4Z - Don 
KT4FY - Steve
K4PX - George 
WB4EQS - Ron 
KC4HW - Jim