Dean,
I noticed their shift was a little wider than 170 and that may have been
the reason that you were having problems whith copting them.
I worked them last nigt at 23:03 UTC on 15 and they were pretty strong.
I ws having problems printing then until I fine tuned them in..
I saw Barry, W2UP work them a little before I did. They also worked a
number of other US stations during that time period.
Dave W7DPW
----- Original Message -----
From: "dsthill" <dsthill@cbcbarbados.bb>
To: <rtty@contesting.com>; <jjreisert@alum.mit.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 6:23 PM
Subject: Re: [RTTY] ZL8R and RTTY
>
> Interesting propagation from ZL8R.
>
> I managed to snag them around 04:40Hrs UTC. Normally I would have bet
that
> 15m was absolutely closed. I had worked them about 45 minutes earlier
on 20m
> SSB and the op's rates were so poor I asked if they were still on
RTTY.
>
> After asking my to QRX, he went off for over 2 minutes and then, I
heard a
> little rtty squeak on the 2nd rig which was tuned to 21.097MHz. The op
came
> back and told me they were still on, and then I started copying them
calling
> CQ with no takers.
>
> One call and they came back. I was amazed!!! What was also interesting
is
> the fact that I used my 400Hz filters rather than the for me standard
250Hz
> filters. On the 250Hz filters I could not copy them at all.
>
> The challenge here was that to use the 400Hz filters, I had to go into
the
> menu of the FT1000mp.
>
> I used about 500W for the QSO and ZL8R never moved the S-meter, even
though
> he was perfect copy at my location. I never once heard any of the
stations
> he was in QSO with, but there were JA's, EU's and a few NA's and PY's
for
> good measure. He was still printing nearly an hour later. Strange
> propagation.
>
> Of course that fits into my theory that there is a special propagation
mode
> that occurs when you have a rare DX station on.
>
> Look forward to putting more voices to my rtty friends in the upcoming
CQWW
> SSB. I'll be SOSB - 20m.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Dean - 8P6SH / 8P2K in the 'tests
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rtty-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:rtty-bounces@contesting.com]
On
> Behalf Of Bill Coleman
> Sent: October 17, 2006 7:23 PM
> To: jjreisert@alum.mit.edu
> Cc: rtty@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [RTTY] ZL8R and RTTY
>
>
> On Oct 17, 2006, at 4:13 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
>
> > I hope if you needed them on RTTY, you worked them. Not many east
> > coast were
> > getting through last night on 15 meters, but I was lucky to work
> > them this
> > morning on 30 meter RTTY.
>
> I worked them easily at 2335z on Monday on 15m. Didn't even take that
> many calls. I think 4 and 5-land had a pipeline into this area of the
> world, though.
>
> Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL Mail: aa4lr@arrl.net
> Quote: "Not within a thousand years will man ever fly!"
> -- Wilbur Wright, 1901
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