[RTTY] RU-NAQP Conflict

[Don AA5AU]

The biggest impact should be on 40 meters.  I plan on staying high in the band above 7080.  Actually I normally operate up there anyway during all Roundups when the 2nd radio is on 20 meters.  I've had a lot of calls from EU up there so you don't have to be low to work EU on 40 meters.  Running SO2R, when operating above 7080 kHz, the harmonic on 20 meters is above 14160 kHz so there is less interference between the 2 radios when operating 20 and 40 at the same time.

REMEMBER, IN THE USA WE CAN NOW OPERATE RTTY BETWEEN 7100-7125 kHz.  I've not heard RTTY up there yet.  We should take advantage of this space and I hope we see RTTY signals there during Roundup.  I'll certain go up there.

Unfortunately we lost RTTY above 3600 kHz on 80 meters so there may be more of an impact on 80 this year as compared to previous years when both contests ran the same weekend.  I guess we'll see.

73, Don AA5AU

--- On Wed, 12/15/10, K1FWE <k1fwe at earthlink.net> wrote:

> From: K1FWE <k1fwe at earthlink.net>
> Subject: [RTTY] RU-NAQP Conflict
> To: RTTY at contesting.com
> Date: Wednesday, December 15, 2010, 6:05 AM
> Now that the decision has been made,
> I think the more positive response would be to figure out
> ways to minimize the negative impact to both contests. Some
> thoughts:
> 
> I'm going to assume that the high bands will be less
> impacted (20, 15, 10) will represent less of a problem for
> RTTY contesters that 40 and 80. So concentrating more on
> these bands when they are open might make sense.
> 
> RU requires 6 hours of off time during the 30-hour contest
> period. So, I plan to take those during the overlap period
> leaving only 6 hours of RU operating during which I would
> have to deal with NAQP contesters
> 
> On 40M I'm going to assume that there will be fewer NAQPers
> around 7080 than 7040
> 
> Other thoughts anyone?
> 
> CU in the RU
> 
> John 
> K1FWE
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