[RTTY] 160 meter Activity Night?

[Bill Turner]

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On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 13:00:54 -0700 (PDT), Jim Reisert AD1C
<jjreisert at alum.mit.edu> wrote:

>Bill, I can't argue with your experience, but my experience from Massachusetts
>is that loud Europeans on 80m are significantly more difficult to copy than
>stations with the same signal strength on 40 meters.  I also hear a noticeable
>difference in the ability to copy 40m RTTY signals compared to 20M.  You can
>hear this with your ears, you don't need a RTTY detector to prove it to you.

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Yes, I see and hear it too, but it rarely affects copy. I credit MMTTY
and RiTTY by K6STI for their advanced filtering techniques. In the old
days of 88 mHy toroid-based detectors, 850 Hz shift and mechanical
printers it might have been worse but I don't know, I wasn't there.
:-)

And besides, if it was easy, what would be the fun when you finally do
it? 

73, Bill W6WRT