[RTTY] RTTY in ARRL Field Day

[Junior]

Looking at some of the old contest results RTTY contesting has come a long
way as far the number of participants now playing.
I recall my first test. I had a little too much in the buffers, along with
machine lockups and other errors, and a low score. I think it was around 67
contacts after an 8 hour effort! But it was all fun and I was hooked. My
first contact when I got the general was Karl, VK2KM. I took the test down
the road from HQ in the Red Cross building. I stopped in HQ where the SGM in
the EOC was a friend of mine and he let me use a .mil/pk-232 rig and a small
beam. I had the signals reversed. I was hooked on chasing DX after that. Now
up to 314 (worked). I was hoping to get all of them before crossing over.
Maybe I'll make it!
73
Charles/kk5oq



-----Original Message-----
From: rtty-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:rtty-bounces at contesting.com] On
Behalf Of Bill, W6WRT
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 12:14 AM
To: 'RTTY Reflector'
Subject: Re: [RTTY] RTTY in ARRL Field Day

ORIGINAL MESSAGE:

On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:49:33 -0400, "Eric - VE3GSI"
<ve3gsi at sympatico.ca> wrote:

>With luck the FD event may have given us a few new newbie's for the RTTY
>contest radiosports. I hope so!

REPLY:

Agreed. For years ARRL has maintained that FD is not a contest, it is
an "operating event". Well, ok, I guess we maybe shouldn't expect
strict contest protocol, especially from all the new ops. Let's just
hope the newbies get interested enough to try a "real" RTTY contest.
:-)

73, Bill W6WRT
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