[CQ-Contest] RTTY "Listening"

[hank k8dd]

Well said!
Also not being a RTTY op I can't comment on CW QRMing RTTY, but I
don't believe that I've seen any one complaining about it much on here
- And I'm sure I'll hear about it if I'm wrong!

73     Hank    K8DD




On 6/19/07, sawyered at earthlink.net <sawyered at earthlink.net> wrote:
> I am not a RTTY op so I can't comment on the need to listen or not.
>
> But I am a low power CW Contester, and as such, I spend more than my fair share of time CQing between 7030 - 7080, 14060 - 14100, and 21060 and 21100.
>
> I can categorically state that SOME RTTYers are adament that these are their frequencies and that it gives them the right to intentionally QRM contesters.  I can't get through A CONTEST without at least a few RTTYers opening up with RTTY dead nuts on my CQing frequency at S7 - S9plus on a frequency I have often been on for 10 mins to over an hour CQing.
>
> Trust me, when I run my 100W into a 2-stack of 4 element monobanders and you are S9 on my meter, I am S7 - S9 plus on yours.
>
> There is no call for it, speakers or not.  A few times I have actually listened to see if another RTTY station has responded to them.  Sometimes they haven't, and the person is still blasting me on the frequency that I occupy.  One of these days, I am going to get on RTTY just to respond to these "idiots" and surprise the hell out of the when I say "get off the frequency.  QRL".  And then go back to my CW Contest.
>
> If anyone doubts this, you are obviously a RTTYer wearing rose colored glasses.
>
> I could think of nothing, I mean nothing, that would turn me off of a contest more, than having RTTY and CW on at the same time (despite being listed in the contest section of ARRL's web site, FD is not a contest...hi).
>
> 73
>
> Ed  N1UR
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