[RTTY] to4e on 40 and 80

[DESLOOVERE DIRK]

Dear,

TO4E is lately RTTY-ing on  40 m .  Yesterday evening this station was spotted on 80 m rtty.    I can not confirm the 80 m opertation.

I am a rtty fan but below 14 Mc I  go for CW mode.

For 40 and 80 m I have put up  sloping dipoles (@ 24 m)  favouring the direction.   I could make a 40 m rrty qso after listing half an hour to non decoding signals. The beam operators had theire rtty qso already in the log.    
I have a 2el for 10 Mc high in the air  (@28 m) and I can tell you that theire is a lot of difference between a poor man dipole and a beam.

I have been listening for hours to 80 m , cw of course, but no luck in the pile ups yet


Personally  this low band rtty qso are not needed for me, the operators could spent more time on + 14Mc bands in rtty favoring other continents.


73

ON4ADZ 
DIRK