[RTTY] K5D RTTY logging

Kok Chen chen at mac.com
Thu Feb 26 06:43:13 PST 2009


On Feb 26, 2009, at 2/26    5:28 AM, Art Searle W2NRA wrote:

> One point in your favor is all of my QSOs are prior
> to your 22 Feb QSO so maybe yours didn't get uploaded yet.
>
>> Has anyone who worked K5D on RTTY had trouble with the contact(s)  
>> showing
>> up in their log?  I worked them 22 February on 17m around 2353Z.   
>> I let
>> time pass but the contact did not show up in their online line.

Kevin,

Interestingly, I'd made an RTTY contact with them just three minutes  
before you did on the same 22 Feb UTC date.  I just did a log search  
at their web site and my contact does show up.

If you still have a hardcopy of the contact, take a look around your  
own contact and see if those other guys are in the K5D log.  You  
might find my call sign within a dozen contacts before yours.

If they are, you could try different variations of characters of your  
call sign -- timing errors of mechanical teletypes could lead to  
errors in the most significant bit of a Baudot encoding of a  
character.  Most significant bits are transmitted furthest away from  
the start bit and are more prone to timing errors.

73
Chen, W7AY



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