Unlike CW, where you can copy "UP" through another signal, two RTTY signals on top of one another (unless one is larger than the other one by the capture ratio of the modem) will result in garbage. T
Great suggestion, Ekki. I will do that from now on. You can tell that many people are not at their radio today, but just watching the DX clusters. I often find DX begging for calls with no takers. Th
I just printed a) W6EU calling on PW0T's frequency. b) some chap (not PW0T) sending 599 and c) W6EU acknowledging with a "QSL GL" ! Whatever happened to the gentleman's mode? 73 Chen, AA6TY
One of them sent me AGN and I completely missed it in the clutter until he sent it the third time, and only then did I I realized there was a real message. The first two times, I'd thought he had tro
Try http://www.pch.gc.ca/ceremonial-symb/english/prv.html Answer is 13 Provinces. Looks like I missed Nunavut, too! I was happier when I was ignorant. 73 Chen, AA6TY
Ahh! I think get it. ARRL 2002 RR Rules state "Each U.S. State (except KH6 and KL7), each VE Province (plus VE8 and VY1) and each DXCC entity." Nunavut does not count, but NWT and YUK do. 12 VE Mults
I submit my Roundup scores almost every year. I seldom submit my scores to the other contests, perhaps one or two other RTTY contests each year. Whereas, you can find me "participating" in most conte
One reason there are fewer logs/callsigns in the WPX and CQWW is that those contests are better for getting a new DX in the log. So they attract more DX'ers, who are not necessarily interested in a "
Phil observed: Cabrillo has actually made life mostly easier for me. My guess is that it is less sloppy in what it needs, and for someone who writes his own contest program, it is easy to follow the
Phil asked: I get on the contests to tweak my station's configuration for DX'ing (which is my primary interest). An antenna here, a new FSK decoding algorithm there, etc. I could care less to see my
My personal recommendation is to keep your current modem, and front-end it with a Timewave DSP-599zx. You won't have to change any of your software configuration. You still transmit through the PK-23
I don't use MMTTY, but have been using my own program for contests for quite a few years now. When I saw this line from Andy, I did a double take. This is almost the same the same format I use for st
A simple "R" is probably good enough, and even has the correct meaning. In CW, quite often often the running station just sends "QRZ" or his callsign. Those are probably questionable. The poor S&P gu
60 WPM is one word a second. You must have exchanged a single word each in the contest QSO :-). I must be using too many shift characters in my exchange. 73 Chen, AA6TY P.S., met up with quite a few