[RTTY] No Digital?

[Ed W4EP]

Hi Frank. First let me thank you and your guys for going to Mellish. Also 
thanks for considering the RTTY dxer BEFORE the operation.
I don't need Mellish on rtty so I want be "loading" my responses to make 
them good for me hi.

How many Qs? About 3500.
How many bands? Two, 15 and 20. The more bands you use the more repetitive 
multi band contacts, Thats OK on CW and SSB but rtty is too time consuming 
per QSO.
How many hours? 3 hour blocks several times per day for full world 
coverage. follow propagation predictions.
 From the start of the operation (or every third Q on SSB will include 
"when will the rtty operation start")
BIG suggestion. Buffers. Make sure your buffers are short but effective. 
The call to the other station should contain his call beginning AND end:

W4EP W4EP DE VK9MR 599  W4EP BK
W4EP TU DE VK9MR QRZ UP 5-25 BK

Buffers that only contain the other guys call at the beginning are 
frequently unanswered for several times because the guys TNC didn't "lock 
on" during the early part of the transmission causing repeated calls and 
lots of wasted QSO time. Proper buffers are probably the most important 
factor to maximize QSOs per hour.

Keep the listening frequency spread huge and skip around frequently.

Hope that helps Frank. If I can think of more will get back to you. You 
guys have a safe "fun" trip.

73, Ed W4EP

PS I Served in Vietnam with the 173rd Airborne Brigade, of which your 1st 
RAR and an  element from New Zealand was a part.  I will be there  for the 
2005 reunion. Great bunch of guys.







>
>The 2002 Mellish Reef team, including myself, are presently
>considering how much time we should spend on RTTY.
>Can we expect to make 4,000 QSO's, or how many?
>
>The original thinking was to start RTTY ops during the latter part of
>trip, now we are considering RTTY ops every day from day one onwards,
>like 3 hours per day, but this depends on how many QSO's we can
>expect to make.
>
>Please DO NOT send me or the anyone else in the VK9ML team, messages
>saying we should operate RTTY 24 hours per day on all bands for ten
>days, because that will not happen, BUT if anyone has a rough idea of
>how many RTTY callers we can expect, say on 20/15m, that information,
>would be useful.
>
>For full information on the trip please check out
>www.qsl.net/vk9ml/2002
>
>73, Frank ZL2BR
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