[RTTY] The E4X team on RTTY

Phil Cooper pcooper at guernsey.net
Mon Jun 7 12:34:32 PDT 2010


Hi all,

I'd just like to say how good I thought the E4X team were at catering for
RTTY.
It is not often that a major DXPedition does so much RTTY. At least one
station was on RTTY every day, and for long periods of time. Not only that,
but they persisted with calls, especially through the QRM and also the QSB.
I missed out on 40, 12 and 10m RTTY, but the pile-ups on 40m were very
serious, and on 10/12m, the conditions just weren't good enough to make it.

I was very surprised to log them on 6m RTTY though. I was trying for them on
10m, but the QSB was deep and long, and during one of those lulls, I went to
50.220, punched in the split, and got them 2nd call.
Went back to 10m, only to find they were now on 12m. Tried there, but not
good enough signals to make it.

Saw them being spotted again on 10m soon after, but felt dubious about that,
as they were suddenly so much stronger, and also, their exchange had changed
from the usual GU0SUP 599 GU0SUP, followed by GU0SUP TNX E4X UP to GU0SUP
5NN, then TU UP.
Maybe it was real, I don't know, but if it was, then power to them for
spending so much time on a hard band, and also having a station on 12m RTTY
at the same time (as well as 6m!).

Apart from the time spent trying so hard on 10 and 12m, plus an hour or so
on 40m, I worked them fairly easily on 30m, 20m, 17m and 15m RTTY, plus 15m
CW, and didn't have to spend too long in the shack before logging them.

I sometimes wish I had an amp, but there is quite a bit of personal
satisfaction in logging them with just 100 watts.

So, my thanks to Roberto EA2RY and the team for putting on such a good show
on RTTY.

Very best 73

Phil GU0SUP


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