[RTTY] Tuning Up or Down?

[John - vk4cej]

No Rich... I also go up and down... and I would have thought that everyone
did...... some people have strange operating habits....   :-)

John - vk4cej / vk4wpx

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Ferch" <ve3iay@rac.ca>
To: <rtty@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 1:07 PM
Subject: [RTTY] Tuning Up or Down?


> Am I the only one who does both? All else being equal, I usually start at
> one end, scan until I run out of signals, then change directions and go
back
> the other way. In addition, I couldn't begin to count how many times I
have
> been moving in one direction and found myself repeatedly losing out to the
> same station S&Ping in the same direction. Whenever that happens, I
usually
> switch directions for a while to get out from under the competition. It's
my
> impression that that happens more often tuning up than down (but my memory
> may be based mostly on CW, not RTTY). Anyway, of course, no-one is likely
to
> be "fishing" for a VE3, so it's not my pattern you need to know about,
it's
> the pattern most commonly used by rare multipliers!
>
> 73,
> Rich VE3IAY
>
>
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