[RTTY] XF4IH secret revealed!

[Scott Keating]

After all the talk about working XF4IH I finally heard them on 20m early in
the week some time, guessed at the split, called, and had them come back
immediately first try.  Not sure what I did right because there were a ton
of people on there at the time.  Yesterday I heard them calling CQ on about
14070, on PSK31 calling CQ +5, again, guessed at the freq and got a response
right away, they seemed to be calling on the same freq every time -
thankfully so because there were about a dozen other stations on 14070 at
the time, would've been hard to figure out which was them calling me back.


-----Original Message-----
From: rtty-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:rtty-bounces at contesting.com] On
Behalf Of Jim Reisert AD1C
Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 6:42 PM
To: RTTY
Subject: [RTTY] XF4IH secret revealed!

Tonight I finally worked XF4IH on 17m RTTY after having not been around the 
right times.

The secret is that he seems to be working with a fixed RIT of +5 KHz.  So 
he tunes around and finds a station to answer, then his transmit frequency 
moves.  To work him, either:

1.  Find the guy he is working and listen exactly 5 kHz down for XF4IH

2.  Find a clear frequency to transmit on, and listen exactly 5 kHz down 
for XF4IH

This was my #280 in about 5 years of RTTY operating.

Good luck, all!

73 - Jim AD1C

-- 
Jim Reisert AD1C, 7 Charlemont Court, North Chelmsford, MA 01863
USA +978-251-9933, <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.com
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