[RTTY] Desecheo this weekend

[David Levine]

So far I've had a real tough go with K5D and RTTY. SSB and CW I've gotten
through extremely easy - often on the 1st or 2nd call. I've tried getting a
RTTY contact for hours now without success. I'm just running 100w into a
wire antenna, but if they are hearing me fine on SSB and CW, RTTY should
also be fine. Really, 2 CW contacts I've made with them both happened on the
first time I put out my call. SSB contacts took less then 15 mins and a
couple less then 5 mins. 

I'm looking to get just 1 contact with them for RTTY on any band. Hopefully
my luck will change!

David - K2DSL

-----Original Message-----
From: rtty-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:rtty-bounces at contesting.com] On
Behalf Of Andrei Stchislenok
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 11:57 PM
To: dezrat1242 at yahoo.com
Cc: rtty at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Desecheo this weekend

This is a good chance for RTTY Community to work K5D on as many bands as
possible and also find out where microphone is and do SSB, I guess.

...Just worked K5D (Felipe NP4Z op) on 7.099.00 (Up 7)-my 1st RTTY QSO with
Desechelo.

GL!

2009/2/20 Bill, W6WRT <dezrat1242 at yahoo.com>

> >From the K5D website:
>
> "2030Z: Based on questions and comments we've received, we've
> restructured our operating plan for this weekend (from 0000Z Saturday
> until 2359Z Sunday).
>
> We will not be participating in the ARRL CW DX Contest.  This means we
> will be operating SSB and RTTY only on 80M, 40M, 20M, 15M and 10M.
>
> And, to give General Class operators a better chance to work us, we
> will be listening only in the General Class portion of all bands, all
> weekend long."
>
> 73, Bill W6WRT