[RTTY] New tricks for OLD dogs

George Johnson w1zt at comcast.net
Wed Apr 12 17:57:40 EDT 2006


At 07:10 AM 4/12/2006, Jerry Pixton wrote:


>Rather than "up 1-2" you put "qsy" and then you change your transmit
>frequency to find another station to work. No split!
>
>I saw a TR8 rtty station do this several weeks ago and could not figure it
>out. I have been watching each afternoon for a return. Yesterday TR8CA came
>up on 14080-14083 doing that. I spent about  15 minutes tracking him and
>calling on each frequency he appeared on but at the end of each qso he MOVED.
>
>Finally I just sat on one frequency and called him. I could see where he
>was in the pan scope. He finally found me for a new DXCC RTTY country.
>Really weird because you can't time your calling to when he is listening.

Jerry,
Very unique and he did that on 160m CW this winter.
I don't think he likes pile ups :-))  I worked him on 20m today.  Thanks 
for the tip.
73, George .. W1ZT 


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