It's my understanding that distortion due to multipath and selective
fading is quite severe on 160m, making 45 baud FSK more difficult to
copy than on the higher frequencies. I'm just repeating what I've heard
- I don't have a great deal of experience on 160m RTTY.
73,
Doug Hall, K4DSP
On Aug 14, 2005, at 6:45 AM, Darren Hatcher wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Forgive the newbie question (I've only done a handful of RTTY contests
> this
> year), but the texts I've read all say that RTTY on 160m is rare (and
> therefore DX is as well I guess).
>
> Is there any particular reason for this? There is DX to be had for CW
> and
> SSB so I thought that RTTY, etc, should also be possible and more
> common.
>
> Thanks for any info,
>
> 73 Darren - G0WCW (also G4MRS/M6T)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rtty-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:rtty-bounces@contesting.com]
> On
> Behalf Of Dick Kriss, AA5VU
> Sent: 13 August 2005 20:33
> To: CTDXCC List; rtty-contesting
> Subject: [RTTY] Interesting Buro SWL Card
>
> Happiness is an envelope full of QSL cards from the Bureau showing up
> in the
> 13-Aug-04 mail. I am not usually that impressed with SWL cards but
> one got
> my attention from DE1WDX for my RTTY QSO with Tom, K3PSK. At first
> glance I
> did not pay much attention to the band but when I check my log the
> RTTY QSO
> was with K3PSK on 1.808 MHz. I did a double check and the German SWL
> card
> showed 1.8 MHz. Not bad for 100 watts and an Inverted-L antenna! Per
> the
> SWL card Peter Uhren, DE1WDX (aka DL2KUW) heard me 449 on his FT-980
> and a
> delta loop antenna. Just filled out an SWL card for Peter. Too bad he
> does
> not have an email address posted on QRZ.
>
> There is hope for RTTY DX on the 160 meter band.
>
> 73 de Dick, AA5VU
>
>
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