[RTTY] RTTY Pileups AFC or RIT?

[Ed Muns]

> I had occasion to get on for the last 45 minutes of the BARTG 
> contest with a new callsign (K7ABC). The new callsign 
> generated a sizeable pileup and it was a lot of fun. I had 
> AFC OFF and was manually tuning the RIT to peak the loudest 
> station in the XY scope and headphones.
> 
> My question is: Would I have been better off using AFC to 
> sort out the stations in the pileup? Any other thoughts on 
> the best way to sort out an on-frequency pileup (not split-frequency)?

My experience has been that very narrow filtering and RIT is more effective
in pileups.  Of course this is anecdotal because it is hard to run a true
A/B comparison at the same time.  The comparison is not impossible, just
difficult, and not something I typically want to experiment with while
contesting.  But it might be worth doing a contest with the objective of
testing these approaches.

73,
Ed - W0YK