[RTTY] VK9GMW - no more RTTY
Peter Laws
plaws0 at gmail.com
Fri Apr 10 07:24:10 PDT 2009
OK, so when are they QRT? 2009-04-10 (today), 2009-04-12 (Sunday),
2009-04-22 (a week from next Wednesday) or Sunday, 2009-04-12?
All are listed - which is correct?
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 23:44, Jim Reisert AD1C <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> *QRT Planned for Sunday (04-10-2009 from AA7JV)*
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> 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
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