[RTTY] !st RTTY contest

[Mark Perrin]

Welcome to the fun, Marty.   I am also one who became hooked on RTTY 
contesting from websites set up by Don AA5AU - the rest of the RTTY 
fraternity is always there to help with questions ---- one of the great 
groups of hams!

73, Mark N7MQ

At 10:57 AM 02/12/2007 -0500, Brahmangou at aol.com wrote:
>Hi Guys,
>
>I'm new to rtty, my first contest and all I have to say is this rtty thing is
>a gas! Like a lot of the others reporting, I was having some trouble getting
>my station up for the contest. Trying to figure out if the problem was in the
>program, serial/usb adapter, interface , rig or operator was getting the best
>of me. I reread AA5AU's instruction web site and finally found and fixed the
>problem. Thanks Don.
>
>In a final test to make sure all was working (after 2 days my confidence was
>pretty low), I turned the power all the way down to check my signal with
>another rig to make sure I wasn't reversed or something. I'm transmitting 
>on the
>746 and watching the decode screen on the 756. Beautiful!!!! I see my call 
>sign
>appearing on the screen. Uh-oh, someone is answering me. VE3DZ must be the
>best op in the world. He answered my call on 80 meters, it couldn't have been
>more than a couple of watts. So, I fumbled for the keyboard and finally 
>got out a
>reply. Double cool was, being new to rtty, I needed Canada.
>
>I started the day with 9 countries on rtty and ended the contest with 71
>countries worked. Thanks guys, like I said, it was a gas.
>
>73's,
>Marty AB5GU