[RTTY] ARRL RTTY

[Ed Muns]

> Can you explain to the uninitiated how a dual RX configuration would
> provide
> an advantage?
> 
> I can see advancing from one q to the next on each rig, alternatively, and
> then transmitting on the one that's ready for a call - but beyond that, it
> seems a guy is already going to be busy looking at the print - the macros
> take care of the sending, but the eye is still needed to sort the wheat
> from
> the chaff especially given a marginal print.
> 
> What am I missing?

If most of the QSOs have print that is marginal and requires determining a
full call from a partial one, then there is little time to deal with a
second radio.  But for those stations where most of the QSOs print clearly,
and highlighted call signs always pop up, then very little time is needed to
read the print.  That's why some people quip that they read a book, watch a
movie or a ball game while operating RTTY.  In this case, they have plenty
of capacity to run a second radio and interleave contacts on two bands.
Potentially, they can double their rate, but it never gets close to that
because of QSO irregularities (long exchanges, fills, QRM, poor print
quality, etc.).

Ed - P49X (W0YK)