[RTTY] Desecheo this weekend

[Art W2NRA]

Hi David,

Were you trying last night on 40m RTTY?  I was in there calling and I 
thought I saw K5D come back to a partial of your call but didn't stick with 
it and picked up someone else.  I think K5D was having RFI problems last 
night as their signal went funny a few times.  This slowed down their QSO 
rate, frustrating the pileup.  Also I don't think the Operator was a regular 
RTTY op as he used very short exchanges that required many many repeats. 
Maybe they were trying to keep the exchanges short because of the RFI 
problem.  Then they disappeared for about 10 - 15 minutes.  When they came 
back the signal was more solid and much of the pileup had given up so it was 
easy to work them then.  I worked them then and I think W6WRT did too.  BTW 
they were sending UP 7 but I saw them work stations anywhere from 3 to 9 KHz 
(I monitor my TX freq full time with dual receive radio & 2 instances of 
MMTTY).

Keep trying.  I've worked them on 4 bands on RTTY and the other ops had much 
higher QSO rates.  Keep an eye on 17, 20, 30 & 40.  Also they've announced 
they will do RTTY on 80m.  I also think they will try more RTTY on 15m 
because they only have 2 QSOs there so far.  That could be a more exclusive 
skip for us.

73, Art W2NRA
"Keep to the Code!"
w2nra.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Levine" <david at levinecentral.com>
Cc: <rtty at contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 6:36 AM
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Desecheo this weekend


> 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
>
>
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