Hi,
This is my first post here. I'm not by any means a dedicated RTTY
operator, nor a dedicated contester but I do enjoy all sorts of radio.
This weekend is the BARTG spring contest and from what I recall it is
one of the 'biggies' in RTTY contesting. Since I have some time this
weekend I thought I might spend some time getting involved. My station
is modest, TS-940, 2 element quad at 80 feet and C3 at about 50 fixed on
EU. I have a sloping dipole for 40, comes off the tower at about 70 feet
and drops to about 35 feet, slopes at about 45 degrees and seems to get
out quite well.
Now here comes the interesting bit, 80m. We don't have much of an
allocation here, in fact it is not a real allocation at all since
together with the 160 allocation it needs to be renewed every year and
there are sometimes delays that have us off the air for a few months.
Anyway the 160 and 80 permit has now been renewed for 2007 which allows
us some access during contests only. The 80 metre allocation is
3500-3536 only. I recognise that this is in the generally accepted CW
only part of the band though there is no mode bandplan here, actually
true for all HF bands here. As such and being aware of the limited
amount of RTTY low band activity from here I am hoping to make at least
something of a show. The plan at the moment is to pull up a dipole, one
end at 70 feet and close to the 40m dipole and slope it to a convenient
point, probably corner of the plot.
Now the questions:
For transmit I think I need to stay as high within the allocation as
possible, probably between 3528 and 3535. What am I going to play havoc
with in that area from here?
For receiving where should I listen? Seems most places have RTTY
allocations around 3600 so from experience where would a good spot be to
advertise.
Likely operating times will be 12:00z through 19:00z on Saturday and
maybe similar on Sunday so if you need zone 26/49 on RTTY 80m have a
listen a little lower.
Thanks
Martin, HS0ZED
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