[RTTY] VK9GMW - no more RTTY

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

The message was dated 10 April. They QRT on Sunday, 12 April (typo).

73 - Jim AD1C

On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 8:24 AM, Peter Laws <plaws0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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