I tried RTTY on FD for several years and it was just not worth the effort. 20
meter CW and SSB were the money stations for number of QSO's during FD.
I would like to see something like they do for natural power, 10 QSO's and you
get 100 points. Or maybe just 100 point for showing off a digital mode.
Joe K0BX
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From: Al Kozakiewicz <akozak@hourglass.com>
To: Mike N8MR <n8mr@hotmail.com>; "rtty@contesting.com" <rtty@contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 4, 2013 7:01 PM
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Field Day Digital: PSK vs RTTY
I found the same thing.
I had a few club members express interest in operating PSK on FD. We were
class 5A. I set up one computer with my DigiKeyer interface to run both PSK and
RTTY with a radio I loaned for the effort that was operated on 40-20-15
meters. In the end, I was the only operator to use either mode and I had only
27 digital contacts in a couple hours of operating. 20 PSK and 7 RTTY. There
were LOTS of PSK signals during the day, but we had 20M antenna problems and
our tribander was in use by a voice operator most of the time I was there to
operate. We had a total of about 950 QSO's, so 27 digital is nothing to brag
about. I spent maybe 2 operating hours to get those 27 QSOs spread out over
both days. The remainder of our QSO's were split almost evenly between CW and
phone.
What I did find is that the vast majority of the PSK operators were very poor
compared to the RTTY operators in a typical contest. Hideously long exchanges
(HI K2AE K2AE PLEASE COPY 599 2E 2E IN LAX LAX) and uselessly long goodbye
messages (K2AE GOODBYE AND GOOD LUCK IN THE CONTEST HAPPY FD 73 DE K6LMNOP).
That coupled with really long times to answer my response after I answered
their CQ , and I was very happy that RTTY contest operators are largely in a
different class.
In our club, there are but a few contesters and many of the FD operators are
Techs using the opportunity to operate on HF outside of 10M. I'd be interested
in hearing if that's typical of other operations.
Al
AB2ZY
-----Original Message-----
From: RTTY [mailto:rtty-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Mike N8MR
Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2013 6:11 AM
To: rtty@contesting.com
Subject: [RTTY] Field Day Digital: PSK vs RTTY
Hello All,
For the 4th year in a row, our local amateur radio club set up a separate
digital station for Field Day. We've heard that RTTY is the most popular
digital mode for Field Day, but this year, we found far more PSK31 signals than
RTTY signals. We listened for PSK31 at x.070 and RTTY from x.080 to x.100 on
40, 20 and 15 Meters.
Is PSK31 the more popular digital mode for Field Day?
What is a good average total QSO count for a digital station on Field Day?
73,
Mike, N8MR
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