[RTTY] No Digital? (VK9ML)

[Waldemar DK3VN]

Hi,

some more arguments, why a DX-pedition team should work RTTY also.

Question: How much extra equipment does a major DX-pedition team
to carry to the remote place, just to work a few thousand HAMs
on 160m and how much extra equipment is necessary for some hundreds
(maybe 1000+) QSOs on 6m?

Answer: Usually for 160m you need a tall vertical, some beverages
and some coax cable. For 6m one extra antenna, one extra mast, one
extra coax cable and very often one extra amplifier and one extra
radio also. And that is the minimum of equipment, you need for
160m and/or 6m.

To work RTTY at the remote place, all extra equipment, which you
have to carry to the remote place, has a total weight of less than
100 grams! All it needs is a little cable, a little adapter and
some software installed on one or two of the laptops, which are
used for logging anyway.

If it is worth to carry all the necessary equipment to a remote place,
just to work a few thousands HAMs on 160m and/or 6m, then it is worth
also, to carry some extra equipment of a total weight of less than
100 grams, to make a few thousands RTTY-HAMs happy also!

73 de Waldemar, DK3VN
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