Hearing them has been a nightmare from upstate NY with my little pistol
antennas. I managed to work them on 30m CW using lots of attenuation and a
K9AY loop that's obviously not a 30M receive antenna in order to get enough SNR
to copy them. Used the amp to get that extra 3db @200 watts. I consider myself
lucky.
FT4JA on the other hand was a piece of cake on 30M both RTTY and CW.
Both ATNOs for me.
Al
AB2ZY
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From: RTTY <rtty-bounces@contesting.com> on behalf of G3YYD
<g3yyd@btinternet.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 5, 2016 2:24 PM
To: 'RTTY Reflector'
Subject: Re: [RTTY] How I worked VK0EK from NA on 15M RTTY this morning
I managed to work them on RTTY 15m at 1154utc yesterday(4th April) 21094.10
QSX 21096.97
73 David G3YYD
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From: RTTY [mailto:rtty-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of John Barber
Sent: 05 April 2016 18:18
To: 'Larry Gauthier (K8UT)'; rtty@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [RTTY] How I worked VK0EK from NA on 15M RTTY this morning
That's very odd .. or maybe a typo? They have been running on 21097, not
21079, and working split down, not up, when I have seen them. Well done on
making the QSO; I am still camping out!
John GW4SKA
-----Original Message-----
From: RTTY [mailto:rtty-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Larry Gauthier
(K8UT)
Sent: 05 April 2016 17:26
To: rtty@contesting.com
Subject: [RTTY] How I worked VK0EK from NA on 15M RTTY this morning
I don't want this to sound like a "brag tape," but with only 5 days left in
this DXpedition there are probably lots of other RTTY ops out there who are
getting as nervous as I was about working VK0EK.
Heard Island is an ATNO for me, which puts it in the category equally
important for both DXCC Mixed and DXCC RTTY. I managed a few Qs on CW and
phone in the early days of their deployment, but as we all know the bands
collapsed around them and working them from NA has become very difficult.
I've only seen RTTY spots on 40 meters - which is not gonna happen from MI,
and on 15 meters - which looks limited to the times between 1200 and 1400
utc. RTTY operation has been split from 21.079 MHz working up. Several days
ago a neighbor ham called (caught me in the shower!) to say he had just
worked them on 15m RTTY. By the time I got down to the radio, they were
gone. <frustration>
This morning I decided to "camp out" on 21.079 from 12:00utc with vfoB set
for a modest 3KHz up and just wait for them. At 12:35 an undecipherable
signal was heard in my radio speakers. By 12:38 2Tone was printing legible
character sequences confirming the sender as VK0EK and revealing they were
working NA and SA stations (a PY2, K4, W4). Three minutes later VK0EK's
signal was solid enough (but certainly not 100% copy) that I threw my call
out there, and they replied. Yippee! I listened for another 5 minutes as
other NA/SA stations worked them, and then they faded into the propagational
ether.
My station is no "big gun" by any measure: 2 element quad, 500 watt
amplifier. But... go camping. At 12:00z pour yourself some coffee. Set the
radio to 21.079. Split vfoB a few KHz up. Select the right antenna and turn
the rotor. Adjust the amplifier. Be prepared, because when it happens it
will be a very short opening. By the time the packet spots arrive it will be
either too late or too crowded.
-larry (K8UT)
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