[RTTY] Don and Charles

[DONALD A HILL]

I'm not home so can't listen for them now, but last night just past sunset here they were spotted on 40M RTTY.  I turned the dipole toward them but never heard them.  They then spotted themselves on 14085 RTTY.  I listened there but the band was dead and relayed that to them via the cluster.  I also asked them to try 10138.  They then spotted themselves on 10140 but they were terribly weak.  I called them up 2 and they came right back to me but the copy was not good.  I then realized that I worked them off the end of my 30M rotatable dipole which is 90 degrees offset from my 40M rotatable dipole.  When I turned the antenna 90 degrees they were nearly perfect copy.  Saw a W3 station get through but I had to go to dinner so didn't stay.  I spotted them on the cluster but was so excited to have worked them that I screwed up the first two spots!

I remember when I worked VK9X on RTTY for the first time.  I believe it was the very first JARTS RTTY contest in 1992 on 40 meters.  About 4 a.m. I came across this huge JA pileup on the lower end of 40 meters and eventually determined it was a VK9X station.  With it being an all-time new one for me on RTTY I pumped up my ol' Heathkit SB-200 to 300 watts and jumped in the pileup with my groundmounted HF6VX vertical.  To my surprise, he came back to me on the first call!  I'll never forget it.

Even though my 30M RTTY contact last night was just for a new band country, I was very excited.  VK9X is a LONG way from here!  I guess we never get tired of working DX!

73 & GL,
Don AA5AU

--- On Wed, 12/2/09, Junior <charlesw_anderso at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> From: Junior <charlesw_anderso at bellsouth.net>
> Subject: Re: [RTTY] Don and Charles
> To: "'FireBrick'" <w9ol at billnjudy.com>, "'RTTY List'" <rtty at contesting.com>
> Date: Wednesday, December 2, 2009, 9:22 AM
> Still there with good copy at 1520z
> but running EU. A few W's got through.
> Just went to 30 cw.
> 73
> Charles/kk5oq
> 
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> no copy on the 30 meter vk9xx at all up here in the Black
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