[RTTY] VK9GMW - no more RTTY

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

*QRT Planned for Sunday (04-10-2009 from AA7JV)*
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Apr 10, 0000 UTC, Mellish Reef. The weather has improved some: we can
now actually hear things in the tent. We have given up on RTTY, it is
just too much for such a small team, and we are very busy with the
pile-ups as is. Apologies to the RTTY ops. It appears that the
weather-break for Tue-Thursday is holding. Therefore we are planning to
tear-down the station on Monday, which means we will likely go QRT on
Sunday, Apr 22 around 2000 UTC (just after we are done with 160).

Low Band Report: One can feel the change in the seasons. It could be
said that 80 is now the new 160. TB was certainly difficult last night,
both to NA, and later, to EU. Noise was high and signals were weak. We
could hear many stations calling but they were mostly impossible to copy
in rapid QSB: signals were just strong enough to keep us trying on 160
but not enough for QSO-s! 80 was better, like 160 on a good night.
Tonight we intend to start on 80 at 2000 to give the East Coast a chance.


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Jim Reisert AD1C/Ø, <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us