[RTTY] Desecheo this weekend

[Robert Chudek - K0RC]

A couple of things to consider...

Regarding K5D, be aware there was an operating team change a few days ago. 
Those who started the DXpedition are now headed home. I know Ralph, KØIR and 
Glenn, WØGJ were in Newark, NJ yesterday afternoon waiting for their 
connection to Minnesota.

Second, make certain you are transmitting "right side up". Yesterday there 
was a VERY loud station calling cq over and over and over again. I had to 
reverse my decoder to copy him. I came back twice and was cq'ed in my face. 
So I flipped my FSK signal too. He came back on the first call after that. 
We got that squared away so he was "Green side up". Had he been calling K5D 
in the configuration I first found him, he would have never made a contact. 
The point of the story is to make certain your (A)FSK is setup properly.

73 de Bob - KØRC in MN

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Art W2NRA" <w2nra at optonline.net>
To: "David Levine" <david at levinecentral.com>
Cc: <rtty at contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 8:05 AM
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Desecheo this weekend


> 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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