[RTTY] Parody Island DXpedition Announcement

Don Hill AA5AU aa5au@bellsouth.net
Thu, 28 Mar 2002 21:24:24 -0600


> We will have 3 pilot stations.  One will be Barry, W2UP, who will be
> instructed to tell those inquiring, that SSB will start on a certain date.  Of
> course, we will not operate SSB on that date.  Instead we will operate RTTY
> and CW on 20 meters listening all the way up to 14300 khz.
> 
Oh, I forgot to mention that SSB operators will be required to either build
radios stations at their work, call in sick, or take vacation days while waiting for
SSB to happen.  They will have stay in front of the radio for 18 hours each day
and sleep on the floor of their shacks with their headphones on, listening to RTTY
tones for hours hoping the tones will end and we will go to SSB.  When they do stop
hearing those RTTY tones, they will go find us on CW, where the SSB operators
will then have to go back to sleep on the floor of their shacks with their headphones
on, listening to CW.