[RTTY] Interesting Survey

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Thu, 28 Mar 2002 16:34:49 -0700


I would vote for no SSB. That's where most of the crap occurs!
73 Barry W2UP

On 28 Mar 2002 at 18:00, Doug Faunt N6TQS +1-510-655-8 wrote:

> Yep,
> I have just seen a bit of that attitude here at XR0X.  The comment,
> and sometimes result was that you can make more Q4s and therefore make
> more people happy on CW and SSB.  I have some ideas abou this for
> RTTY.  That is why I went from having unlimited time for RTTY to 6
> hours (and unproductive ones at that) per day.  
> 
> I alos want to learn how to make more PSK QSOs faster and do that
> within the next three weeks before KH1.
> 
> 
> 73, doug
> 
> XR0X 3000+ RTTY
> 114 PSK31
> 
> 
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> 
>    While surfing the web looking for material for this week's
>    VK2SG RTTY DX Notes, I came across the VK9ML site with information
>    about their upcoming DXpedition to Mellish Reef.
> 
>    http://www.qsl.net/vk9ml/2002/
> 
>    In late December, the team put up a survey on the site to find
>    out which digital mode they should operate, if any.  As I would
>    have expected, RTTY won over PSK, 38% to 15%.   What about the
>    other 47%?  They chose to have the team not do ANY digital mode
>    and to concentrate on SSB and CW!  Wow...
> 
>    I don't know if this survey was set up where someone could
>    continuously vote for one option or not, but I must admit I'm
>    astonished that anyone would vote to have a DXpedition NOT do
>    digital.
> 
>    Perhaps I'm just not with the program.  Perhaps there is a majority
>    of CW/SSB ops that would rather a DXpedition not take time out
>    for digital.  I don't know.  But I sure am curious.
> 
>    Comments?
> 
>    73, Don AA5AU
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