[RTTY] How about a 160m RTTY High Speed Sprint? (was RTTY on 160 Meters)

[Robert Chudek]

This thread reminds me about...

Around 1998 and 1999 I sponsored a short 4-hour RTTY contest call the High Speed Sprint. I chose to use the rules and scoring from the BARTG contest so no software changes would be needed. The single difference was only RTTY at 75 baud (100 wpm) would count for QSO's. This sprint ran for two or three years. It took place on the second weekend in March, if I remember correct.

Maybe we should combine ideas and cook up a 4-hour 160m High Speed RTTY Sprint? Anyone game to give this a shot? And 1807.5 kHz sounds like a good calling frequency to me.  :-)

How would 0200z ~ 0600z work, On an evening instead of a weekend? There would be coast to coast propagation at that time. If we got enough interest stirred up, one goal would be 160m RTTY WAS. Who's interested in giving this a shot?

73 de Bob - K0RC

P.S. The old HSS was an interesting learning experience for many of the fellows because they needed to adjust their TNC's for 100 wpm operation. Also, a bug was revealed in the WF1B software at the higher speed. Ray had to fix something, I don't remember the particulars. But it was really fun to watch the canned exchanges fly across the screen at 100 wpm! There was also a lot of discussion on the reflector whether 60 wpm or 100 wpm was more/less error prone, filter widths, and on and on... There's enough new fellows on digital that this could be a hoot!

I'm gonna check my old computer to see if I can find the details about this old HSS event. Hmmm.. come to think about it, I think I'm using that old computer as a wheel chock for the boat trailer...



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Message: 8
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 12:51:44 -0800
From: Bill Turner <dezrat at copper.net>
Subject: Re: [RTTY] RTTY on 160 Meters
To: <ke4qok at bellsouth.net>, "Thomas Giella KN4LF"
<flcyclone at tampabay.rr.com>, "a RTTY COL eList" <rtty at contesting.com>
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At 11:19 AM 2/27/2006, ke4qok at bellsouth.net wrote:
>It may not be as hard as you think to maintain a good QSO count on 
>160M.  There are probably a lot of people out there that have few if 
>any RTTY contacts on this band and would like to get some in the log 
>and the QSL album.
>
>Bob
>KE4QOK

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