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Re: [RTTY] E30FB Eritrea TrIfecta

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Subject: Re: [RTTY] E30FB Eritrea TrIfecta
From: W0MU Mike Fatchett <w0mu@w0mu.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 14:52:13 -0600
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Congrats to all who worked them!

I got them too on Sunday on RTTY. It was the hardest contact on RTTY that I have made. I only run 500 watts so I generally take a backseat to the big boys with bigger antennas and 1500 watts. I was pretty much resigned to not working them on RTTY when I saw my call print!

I worked them early on on 10, 15 and 20m SSB. Quite easily on the 1st day which was shocking again 500 watts on SSB takes a back seat. I got them on 17m and 12m too. 30 and 40 meters just never happened. So that chase will continue. 80m they were barely heard here and I have nothing on 160 that would get there but I think very few worked them from the states on 160.

I have to wonder if RTTY was just an after thought. Obviously the reverse sending was a problem for a few days. The rate was terrible. I worked the 7q and 9Q stations very easily in comparison, the pileups were smaller but well managed. Maybe the E30 guys had terrible noise to deal with. I guess we will find out in the coming days. I know that 160 noise was a huge problem for them.

I was happy with one contact as it was an ATNO on any band mode.

Mike W0MU

On 3/17/2015 1:21 PM, Al Kozakiewicz wrote:
My impression is that the operator was probably not very experienced with RTTY. 
The pileups were routinely 10-15 kHz wide and I had no problem quickly picking 
out decodable signals from among the clutter.  Yet the QSO rate seemed 
agonizingly slow - maybe 1-1.5 per minute during the times I was on the air.  
Note that I have no idea what the conditions were like at his end and it is not 
my intent to unduly criticize.

My goal with ATNOs is to try to work them on 3 modes and be happy with one.  I 
managed 3 CW QSO's, one SSB that apparently was busted (NIL) and a bunch of 
time invested on RTTY with nothing to show for it.  At least they were able to 
hear stations outside a few hundred km radius, unlike the recent Iraq 
DXpedition.

Al
AB2ZY
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From: RTTY <rtty-bounces@contesting.com> on behalf of Fred Souto Maior 
<py7zz@soutomaior.eti.br>
Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2015 2:53 PM
To: rtty@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [RTTY] E30FB Eritrea TrIfecta

Yes Dick I agree with you. It was very hard to me also. I worked them
almost at the end
of the dxpedition for my entity nr 335 on Digital and it was VERY VERY
difficoult. They
started with the TX\ reversed and RX normal and it was a mess. Then they
corrected the
problem but continued to be very hard. I could receive them very well
good 579 sigs
but they couldn't hear my 600 w and 4 el ant. Maybe his ant wasn't
pointed here. One of my
friends in Japan told me that only 4 JAs made it on RTTY and it's
amazing if you consider
the number of JAs that operate RTTY. Anyway it is goone now and I'm
happy I got them
on my log. Now I have to wait for 3Y-Bouvet BS7H FT5W KH5K  and VK0-Heard.

73 Fred PY7ZZ


On 17/03/2015 15:27, Richard Kriss wrote:
No recent cluster spots so I assume the E30FB team is one their way home and 
the Eritrea Project 2015 is history.

They were hard to hear with my setup and STX location.  I did not have too much 
trouble working them on CW and SSB; however, RTTY for my personal Trifecta was really 
hard. I tried many times on 21.080 RTTY UP over several days and on last evening 
16-Mar-2015 at 2321z I finally worked and logged them up 9. E30FB as my #299 for RTTY 
was one of the hardest QSO’s ever for me. If it was easy, it would not be DXing.

I hope the E30FB QRZ page that says they upload to LoTW is good.

73 Dick AA5VU
Rare DX is the one you have not worked. Once worked they are just DX


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