[RTTY] FD RTTY from W3AO

[Tyler Stewart]

I was hoping for better, but guess I was overly optimistic about band 
conditions.  We also spent a lot more time on PSK than RTTY.  QRN from 10 
SSB station precluded any digital there.  We never got an 80 meter digital 
antenna up, which I"m sure hurt us.  However, we made good use of 40, 20, 
and 15, for about 430 qsos...probably 75 percent on PSK.  Towards the end I 
realized we probably should have done more switching back and forth between 
modes.

We had a bit of a learning curve running PSK....I still hate it vs. RTTY, 
but you gotta go with the Q's.  We ran MMTTY on RTTY and Digipan on PSK. 
Both performed well, but found the NET function on Digipan didnt work very 
well.  Someone would call 20 hz off and it never got there.  The parallel 
decode is really cool from stonger signals.  It doesnt really seem to work 
very well for weak signals unless you have them tuned in, but still cool 
feature for S&P.
We had 3 radios set up with 3 laptops, plus a DOS computer CT logging 
network, so I was doing a fair amount of SO3R!  Touchpads suck!  LOL!

Best DX was ZL and VK on 15 meters.
Biggest disappointment.  NO, repeat NO Europeans coming in on Sunday.

73, Ty K3MM
W3AO FD 21A...then 40A towards the end!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <kk5oq at bellsouth.net>
To: "Jerry Flanders" <jeflanders at comcast.net>; "Tom Osborne" 
<w7why at verizon.net>; "RTTY" <rtty at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2005 9:00 PM
Subject: Re: [RTTY] FD RTTY


> PSK
> 80m 10
> 40m  41
> 20m  17
> and around 145 on rtty.  I would suspect about half on rtty were 1d's and 
> not
> that many on psk.
> Noticed the psk ops would jump on freq and try and get your qso with the 
> other station.
> Then try and work you if that did not work. Cheeky buggers. Happened about 
> 20 times so
> it was not a case of not hearing me!
> More activity this year. Suspect some good digi totals in the future.
> 73
> charles/kk5oq
>
>
>>
>> From: Jerry Flanders <jeflanders at comcast.net>
>> Date: 2005/06/26 Sun PM 08:48:44 EDT
>> To: "Tom Osborne" <w7why at verizon.net>,  "RTTY" <rtty at contesting.com>
>> Subject: Re: [RTTY] FD RTTY
>>
>> Wow! More activity than I had thought there would be. I was videotaping 
>> our
>> club's operation so didn't operate, but one of the ops set up and did a 
>> few
>> PSK Qs, and I could see several QSO streams going on.
>>
>> Maybe next year we might give it a more serious shot here.
>>
>> Thanks for the info.
>>
>> Jerry W4UK
>>
>> At 22:56 6/26/2005, Tom Osborne wrote:
>> >W4UK wrote:
>> >
>> > >How many PSK QSOs? For how many hours of operation?
>> >
>> > >I have been wondering what the level of activity was for the digi 
>> > >modes.
>> >
>> > >Jerry W4UK
>> >
>> >Hi Jerry
>> >I worked for a couple of  hours and here's what I did.  I think I 
>> >actually
>> >had about 4 or 5 USB contacts on 20 but forgot to switch the log.
>> >
>> >  Band  Mode  QSOs    Pts
>> >      7  RTTY     7      14
>> >     14  RTTY    55    110
>> >     14  USB      1      1
>> >  Total  Both    63    125
>> >Score: 250
>> >
>> >Tom W7WHY
>>
>>
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