[RTTY] New To Group

[Dave Barr]

John, congrats on running qrp in a RTTY contest.  You are not alone.  
I've been doing it for a decade or more, and in those contests where I 
put in a good effort, usually end up in the upper half of the scoring.  
It's amazing what a few watts will do,  and I have found that while psk 
is pretty amazing, I do just about as well on rtty, i.e., about 230 dxcc 
countries worked qrp, and even some at one watt.  In contests, I have 
one macro which repeats the significant part of an exchange (not the 
599) five or six times, to use when the first exchange doesn't work.  I 
rarely am asked for a second repeat.  Just have patience and be ready to 
call CQers several times before you get them, even if you think no one 
else is calling. 

73 Dave, K2YG

 > Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 19:13:06 -0500
 > From: KB2HSH at amsat.org
 > To: rtty at contesting.com
 > Subject: [RTTY] New To Group
 >
 > Good evening, all...
 >
 > Just wanted to say hello to everyone. I worked my 1st full-blown RTTY
 > contest in the 22 years that I've been a ham. Had a great time during the
 > XE Test...and to those I worked, thanks for digging my 5 watts out.
 >
 > 73 de John KB2HSH