Our club, led by K2YG, gave a tutorial on RTTY and N1MM at a pre Field Day
planning meeting last year.
It generated a lot of interest, especially with new and inactive hams.
K2AL
Secretary, NPARC
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> On Feb 24, 2017, at 11:40 AM, Stanley Zawrotny <k4sbz.stan@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Tim,
>
> Regardless of the technical pros and cons, the main thing is that the
> majority of the everyday PSK31 operators don't know how to operate RTTY. Many
> of them don't even know how to modify their macros. If you get macros
> tailored to FD, you will be lucky.
>
> In my opinion, if the op is experienced enough to know both PSK and RTTY,
> he/she should be knowledgeable enough to make the choice of RTTY over PSK.
>
> Stan, K4SBZ
>
> "Real radio bounces off the sky."
>
>> On Feb 23, 2017, at 11:44 PM, Tim Goeppinger <timgep@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> I would like to write a letter to QST to hopefully get published by Field
>> Day. My concern is that the North Americanhams have taken a wrong turn
>> about 15 years ago for digital modes for ARRL Field Day. Somehow, PSK31
>> becamethe de facto mode for digital in Field Day. Before that, we had
>> RTTY, and that worked fairly well for FD.
>> What we have now for Field Day is 2 or 3 KHz of spectrum that is packed with
>> PSK31 signals. Many stations on topof one another. In addition, all it
>> takes is one over-driven signal to splatter and wipe out the whole PSK
>> bandwidth.
>> Don't get me wrong. PSK31 is a great mode 364 days of the year for
>> ragchewing and DXing. It is elegantly designed, has Vitterbi decoding, and
>> is efficient in is use of spectrum. But for Field Day, it is the wrong
>> mode. In a real-life emergency would everyone crowd PSK signals into 2 -3
>> KHz? No, wewould spread out.
>> Even though RTTY is from the late 1920's, it is still the primary mode for
>> digital contesting. And yes, Field Day is a contest. So why not use RTTY?
>> And there is a huge chunk of spectrum that we can use. On 20 meters, we
>> could go from 14.080 to 14.130 MHz. Spread the RTTY signals out, so there
>> is no QRM. The space is there. Use it!
>> If Field Day stations make the transition from PSK31 to RTTY, would the RTTY
>> contesting community make a special effort to get on the air, andmake some
>> RTTY contacts? There is a Field Day category for home with commercial
>> power, which is 1D.
>> I would appreciate any inputs on this opinion piece.
>> Tnx & 73,
>> Tim N6GP
>>
>>
>>
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