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Subject: [RTTY] Tuning Up or Down?
From: w2up@mindspring.com (Barry )
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 10:35:35 -0500
I usually tune up the band. I've had very limited success trying to 
snare the S&P new mult that way.

Don, I suppose you could increase your odds of catching the 
station by overdriving your AFSK and putting out spurious 
sidebands on both sides of the original freq :.)

73 Barry

On 13 Nov 01, at 9:23, Hill, Don wrote:

> Chen wrote:
> >I found 1 kc up was clear, waited for the QTC to finish, and
> >started calling HK0GU there.  Guess who answered!  If my
> >center of gravity weren't so low, I would have fallen off my chair!
> 
> I did the same thing to VP9GE except I went down in
> frequency on 20M. I had already worked him on 10 & 15,
> it was late in the contest and needed multipliers.
> Since he was working a station at 14099 I decided to
> go down in frequency rather than up.
> 
> The technique of seeing a station in S&P mode and trying
> to work him is not new, but for me, it raises questions
> I've not been able to find a solid answers for.
> 
> We've discussed this somewhat on the reflector before.
> But do the majority of stations, when in S&P mode, tune from
> the top of the band to the bottom or from bottom to top?
> 
> I tune from top to bottom almost always.
> 
> So when I come across a station I want to work who is in
> S&P mode, depending on where in the band they are, I normally
> tune down .5 to 1 khz.  It seems to work about half the
> time, so maybe about half of us tune up and half of us tune
> down?  If the occurrence takes place very low in the sub-band,
> I'm inclined to move up before calling.
> 
> I call this "fishing" for an S&P station.  It's a technique
> I'd like to improve on, but I'm not sure if that's possible.
> I suppose a 50% success rate is the best we can hope for?
> 
> 73, Don AA5AU
> 
> 
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Barry Kutner, W2UP              Internet: w2up@mindspring.com
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