[RTTY] 2011 Roundup

[Chris Plumblee]

Just out of curiosity, what would the readership think about inquiring
of WA7BNM as to the feasibility of switching the NAQP CW and NAQP SSB
weekends in January to avoid this conflict? There is no RTTY contest
on the WA7BNM contest calendar on the weekend of the NAQP SSB contest
(two weeks later). A switch would remove 12 hours of pretty intensive
CW operation for the weekend of the Roundup and replace it with SSB,
which benefits Roundup operators and NAQP CW ops considerably.

I suppose the two elements to balance in answering my question are

1. the potential for inter-modal interference between stations in the
NAQP CW and RTTY Roundup, and

2. the overlap between RTTY Roundup and NAQP SSB.

If the overlap between NAQP SSB and the Roundup for casual stations is
minimal, it seems like a win-win. If the overlap is more considerable
then a move would force a significant number of operators to choose
between two excellent contests and seems like a not-so-good idea. The
interference will be considerable if NAQP CW and RTTY Roundup remain
on the same weekend, with less interference being suffered by ops in
the RU as NAQP stations will all be running <150w.

73,
Chris WF3C


> Message: 5
> Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 05:56:57 -0800 (PST)
> From: Don AA5AU <aa5au at bellsouth.net>
> Subject: Re: [RTTY] 2011 Roundup
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> The trick for us RTTY ops going to be to stay high in the band.  Biggest problems are going to be 20 and 40 meters.  USA RTTY ops can go all the way to 7125 kHz now and we should start utilizing that space.  Working DX on the low end of 40 is going to be a problem though.  On 20 we can go all the way to 14150 kHz, which in major RTTY contests is already well populated.  On 80 we can't go above 3600 kHz anymore, so the high part of that band may become more crowded than usual.  Hopefully 15 meters will be open, because we can go all the way up to 21200 kHz there.
>
> It's going to be an interesting combination.
>
> 73, Don AA5AU