The Red Solo Cup Contest Team will be in operation this weekend for ARRL
Field Day. ND5C and myself will be operating from Hodges Gardens,
Louisiana (EM31gk) in 1A LA as WE5DX. We will be operating RTTY about 1/3
of the time so we will be looking for RTTY as well.
73 de Jeffrey N5TIT
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On Thu, Jun 22, 2017, 11:16 Jim Rhodes <jimk0xu@gmail.com> wrote:
> Will be doing RTTY @ K0TFT as usual. PSK31 is not a contest mode. JT65 is
> most definitely not a contest mode!
>
> Jim Rhodes
> K0XU
>
> On Jun 22, 2017 11:01 AM, "Stanley Zawrotny" <k4sbz.stan@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Last year the Tallahassee Amateur Radio Society (TARS) digital station
> was
> > using PSK31 with poor results. I showed them RTTY and their numbers
> > increased. This year they have asked me to join them, so I expect to do a
> > lot of running on RTTY. Look for K4TLH 3A in NFL.
> >
> > Stan, K4SBZ
> >
> > "Real radio bounces off the sky."
> >
> > On Jun 21, 2017, at 10:14 PM, Ryan Noguchi <ai6do@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > >> I'm not a big PSK31 operator -- it's just something I play around with
> > >
> > >
> > > now and then -- and I certainly have never contested with it. Or, for
> > > that matter, I've never even seen a PSK31 contest, so I have no idea
> how
> > > they do it.
> > >
> > >
> > > The PODXS 070 Club runs about one contest a month. The contest calendar
> > can be found at podxs070.com, and these don't always make it to the
> > WA7BNM Contest Calendar. The contest results are posted live at
> > hamclubs.info/scorer.
> > >
> > > It's a very different experience than a typical RTTY contest. The
> > community of PSK31 contesters is pretty small, so rates are pretty low.
> > During a typical RTTY contest, most every RTTY signal you see is someone
> > participating in the contest. That's definitely not the case with PSK31.
> > Even when I call CQ CONTEST, every 3rd caller just has to send that long
> > brag file, making me want to cry and gouge my eyes out. I find my sanity
> > lasts longer when I just S&P in PSK31 contests.
> > >
> > > The European PSK63 contests are much more orderly and RTTY-like, but
> > those signals don't often make it over the pole well to those of us on
> the
> > West Coast.
> > >
> > > 73, Ryan AI6DO
> > >
> > >
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