Hello Martin et al.
Congrats on the 80 meter license for BARTG. According to the JARTS website,
the JA RTTY allocation is 3520-3525 KHz. Since your
sunset will be around 1130Z, going to 80 at 1200Z will likely bring you a nice
JA pileup since they are the ones that will hear you
first. This will probably be too late for East Coast USA, but here in the
central part of North America, 1200Z will be just before
our sunrise. Many of us do not have antennas good enough to hear you, but
there are some that do. I always listen between
3520-3525 KHz just before and at my sunrise for JA's, but have only worked one
or two because I don't have a good receiving antenna.
However, there are some stations in W0-land who have the antennas and power to
reach you.
By operating between 3520-3525 KHz around 1200Z with JA's calling you, NA
stations should be able to find you by watching for the
JA's. You didn't mention if you were running an amplifier on 80 meters. If
not, we'll probably not hear you in NA. If so, break
from the JA's and ask for NA on occasion.
EU stations will look for you after their sunset.
GL & 73, Don AA5AU
http://www.aa5au.com
http://www.rttycontesting.com
-----Original Message-----
From: rtty-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:rtty-bounces@contesting.com] On
Behalf Of Martin Sole
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 12:37 AM
To: rtty@contesting.com
Subject: [RTTY] First post, bandplan question
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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