[RTTY] RTTY operation in ARRL's Field Day exercise?

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N2XJ, NNJ, running as 2A QRP only, had a limited amount of time on digital modes.  We had about 30 or so RTTY Qs and about 12 with PSK31.  The activity on PSK was much greater than RTTY, although I find PSK to be much less efficient for contesting than RTTY.  (W2UP may have a comment on that.)  There was a fairly high percentage of "D" category (home - commercial mains) stations compared to CW and SSB.  In hind sight, even though we were running QRP, we probably should have included our 2A category and called CQ a lot, since D to D contacts are not allowed in FD.

Sharing a station with SSB, we did not have a lot of time, but we did work every RTTY station we heard.  Totals for CW/SSB/Digital were about 750 Qs, not bad for 
QRP and wire antennas.  We should encourage more RTTY activity, and try to get the PSKers over to RTTY for FD.

73
Dave, K2YG
New Providence ARC - N2XJ/qrp  


 
> From: Jerry Flanders <jeflanders@comcast.net>
> Date: 2002/06/24 Mon AM 07:28:52 CDT
> To: rtty@contesting.com
> Subject: [RTTY] RTTY operation in ARRL's Field Day exercise?
> 
> Was there much RTTY operation in ARRL's FD this past weekend? Over at our 
> club's site, some of the guys asked me as we were finishing up if our club 
> should try RTTY next year. It was too late for me to tune around the bands 
> and check for activity.
> 
> Is there much RTTY in FD? If you operated FD- how many RTTY QSOs?
> 
> Jerry W4UK
> 
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