[RTTY] An open letter to AA5AU

[Andrei Stchislenok]

Marc, congrats on your first "piece of wood"!!

And yes, Don's web page is a Bible for many of us. I read "
rttycontesting.com" many times since 2003 when I started RTTY. As a result I
have now a dozen of different Plaques on my wall and hundreds of good
friends all over the world.

I believe that AA5AU's web page is a MUST for every RTTY-er.

73's Andrei NP3D-YN2S-HQ2T-EW1AR

2010/5/12 Don Hill AA5AU <aa5au at bellsouth.net>

> Marc, thank you very much for the positive feedback and congratulations on
> your RTTY contest successes.
>
> It seems the tutorials "Getting Started on RTTY" and "WriteLog RTTY
> Starter" have helped hundreds become successful RTTY operators
> and contesters.  And for this I am very proud.  I have no real numbers to
> support this claim other than the fact that I receive on
> average 2-3 e-mails each day from people looking for help, advice or with
> general questions on RTTY and RTTY contesting.  Since I
> wrote the tutorials some 8 years or so ago, that would be close to 800
> people that I know of and then there are those I don't know
> of.  The rtty page on aa5au.com combined with the pages on
> rttycontesting.com have compiled over a half million hits combined.
> Again, I have no real numbers because all the counters were reset some
> years ago when Yahoo dropped their Geocities branded sites.
> The rttycontesting.com home page has received 247,840 hits since the
> counters were reset a few years ago.  The site is averaging
> around 12k hits a month since December '09 with a peak of nearly 15k hits
> in February 2010.  I would have thought that at some time
> the site activity would level out and decline but as the popular saying
> goes "The hits keep on coming".
>
> I get a great deal of satisfaction from helping others through the
> websites, e-mail reflectors, personal e-mail and the NCJ RTTY
> Contesting column.  After receiving overwhelming support from the RTTY
> community after Hurricanes Katrina and Gustav, I feel even
> more strongly of my need to "give back".  I vow to continue to be an
> ambassador to our mode and radio sport.
>
> It would be OK to me if I never won another RTTY contest, but it would kill
> me if I didn't have the chance to help a fellow operator
> gain the joys of RTTY and RTTY contesting that I have felt over the past 25
> years.
>
> 73, Don AA5AU
> http://www.aa5au.com
> http://www.rttycontesting.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rtty-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:rtty-bounces at contesting.com] On
> Behalf Of Chicoine, Marc
> Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 7:45 AM
> To: rtty at contesting.com
> Subject: [RTTY] An open letter to AA5AU
>
> An open letter to Don AA5AU:
>
> Don,
>
> I just found out that I took first place low power Asia in the 2009 CQ WW
> RTTY contest under my Israeli callsign 4Z8BB.
> Finally this is the first "piece of wood" (plaque) I've ever earned for a
> contest.
>
> Part of my success I attribute to your on-line tutorial on your website "
> rttycontesting.com"
>
> I work for Uncle Sam and I was on a two year assignment to Israel starting
> in January 2008.  In early 2008 I had setup a station in
> Israel and thought it would be good to start RTTY contesting again.  I had
> an old PK-232 with old software that I dusted off and
> quickly realized that I needed to upgrade so I researched the web and came
> across your website.  Thanks to your RTTY tutorial I
> quickly got on board with WriteLog and a homemade interface for my Orion
> II.  I entered many RTTY contests and quickly earned RTTY
> DXCC and RTTY WAS. I was also 2nd place Asia in the  CQWW RTTY WPX contest.
> The pièce de résistance was winning the 2009 CQ WW RTTY (1st place Asia,
> low power).
>
> Thanks again for your tutorial and for your various published articles on
> RTTY and RTTY contesting.
>
>
>
> Marc E. Chicoine
> DA1MC,  4Z8BB,  WC1X
> Wiesbaden,  Germany
>
>
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