[RTTY] No Digital? (VK9ML)
Jari Jussila
Jari.Jussila@oh2bu.pp.fi
Fri, 29 Mar 2002 15:52:43 +0300
Frank Hunt wrote:
>
> ...
> 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?
> ...
> 73, Frank ZL2BR
> ..
Frank's question will easily be answered with the data of some previous DX
Peditions. D68C made 5285 RTTY QSO's but normally the amount of RTTY QSO's,
are between 1500-2000 (1 to 3 percent of the QSO total) in the major DX
peditions.
Jari, OH2BU
QSO QSO's per mode RTTY
Call DXCC Entity total CW SSB RTTY %
D68C Comoros Is. 168 722 84 482 75 497 5 285 3,2
ZL9CI Campbell Is. 96 004 52 270 41 343 2 391 2,4
A52A Bhutan 82 087 42 088 37 263 2 736 3,3
K5K Kingman Reef 80 841 41 293 38 161 1 346 1,7
VK0IR Heard Is. 80 673 45 536 33 081 2 056 2,5
XZ0A Myanmar 79 784 38 394 38 953 2 437 3,1
FO0AAA Clipperton I. 75 107 35 667 36 610 2 827 3,8
4J1FS M-V Island 74 495 32 910 40 355 1 230 1,7
H40AA Santa Cruz Is. 67 129 29 604 36 384 1 007 1,5
9M0C Spratly Is. 65 524 34 298 28 856 2 075 3,2
R1MVA, R1MVM-V Island 65 221 33 990 29 879 1 352 2,1
3W8CW, 3W8DX 63 200 35 900 27 300 1,1
FR/F6KDF/T Tromelin I. 51 046 18 146 32 321 579 1,1
3G0Y Easter I. 49 629 38 332 9 585 1709 3,4
TS7N Tunisia 46 492 29 984 12 242 663 1,5
3B9R Rodrigues I. 46 100 23 460 21 763 1119 2,4
VK9MM Mellish Reef 43 876 16 664 25 512 1548 3,5
E44/HA1AG Palestine 40 431 29 716 9 971 744 1,8
ZL8RI Kermadec 33 897 14 010 18 550 1439 4,2
T30CW Kiribati 32 630 12 434 19 004 1192 3,7
V26EA/ET/FM Antigua 31 915 13 055 17 172 1673 5,2
ZL7DK Chatham 31 335 5,6
8P9JR/JS/JT/J Barbados 31 108 11 632 17 410 1443 4,7
At 11:57 29.3.2002 Friday +0100, you wrote:
>Frank Hunt wrote:
> >
> > ...
> > 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?
> > ...
> > 73, Frank ZL2BR
> > ...
>
>Hello Frank,
>
>you can make up to 4000 RTTY-QSO's in total, I believe. Some minutes
>ago I have made a little Short-/Long-Path Prediction for the time,
>when you will be on Mellish Reef. (For my QTH, of course :-)
>
>In a summary: VK9m <=> DL the best bands are 20m (17m), Short-Path.
>Bearing (SP/LP): DL->VK9m 50/230 deg, VK9m->DL 330/150 deg.
>
>In details highest S/N ratio, all times in UTC:
>80m 1900-2000 SP
>40m 1800-2000 SP
>30m 1700-2030 SP
>20m 0500-0730 LP, 1400-1730 SP, 2000-2130 SP
>17m 0600-0730 LP, 1200-1630 SP
>15m 0600-0700 LP, 1330-1500 SP
>12m ~1300 - ~1630 SP with low probability
>10m ~1300 - ~1630 SP with very low probability
>
>I don't know, if that is helpful for you. Please have in your mind,
>the most contacts you can make in modes, where no high S/N ratio
>is necessary, like CW and RTTY. ;-)
>
>If you are thinking about working European stations, please think
>about this few statements ..
>
>1. Please have in your mind, that in Europe the distance from the
> "West Coast" to the "East Coast" is (approx.) the same, like the
> distance in the U.S.A. and the distance from the "North Coast" to
> the "South Coast" in Europe is much (!) longer than in the U.S.A..
>
>2. If you are running in SSB, *PLEASE* don't accept the "last two"
> callers; NEVER!!!
>
>3. Please have in your mind, that in Europe we have approx.
> 40 different nations. That means: 40 x different language skills
> and 40 x different behavior in normal life and on the bands.
>
>What every your decision is, I have to accept it; I will accept it!
>
>73 de Waldemar, DK3VN
>--
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