[RTTY] Desecheo this weekend

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due to rfi and fuel concerns, the last few days they've been running without
amps....they were loud on 75m, and the op said he was running 80 watts....


On 2/21/2009 3:31:12 PM, Art Searle W2NRA (w2nra at optonline.net) wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> You must be to close and in a skip zone.
> They've been booming in here, on
> Long Island, on every band, except 10 and 12.  They even had a great
signal
> in both CW and SSB on 160 meters.  I have modest antennas on 30 thru 160.
> If I can even hear them there, that is a feat.  I've
> worked
> 'em in all 3
> modes from 15 thru 160 except for Phone on 30 meters and RTTY on 80 and
160.
> That ain't
> me!  That's there signal.  They've got Alpha!
>
> 73 Art W2NRA
> "Keep to the Code!"
> w2nra.com
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter Laws" <plaws0 at gmail.com>
> To: "RTTY Reflector" <rtty at contesting.com>
> Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 03:17 PM
> Subject: Re: [RTTY] Desecheo this weekend
>
>
> > On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 14:03, David Levine <david at levinecentral.com>
> > wrote:
> >> Woohoo!!! You can't see it but I'm doing the happy dance right now.
> >>
> >> 15m started to boom in to the east coast this afternoon and I was able
> to
> >> snag them.
> >
> >
> > I have yet to hear K5D "boom" on anything yet, but I did work them on
> > 15 RTTY about 10 minutes before you did.