[RTTY] 2011 Roundup

[Dave Hachadorian]

I think it would be an excellent idea to switch NAQP weekends so 
that SSB, rather than CW, coincides with the Roundup.

The Roundup is a major DX contest, and there will be loud RTTY DX 
activity all the way down to 7025, and maybe even lower.  It 
would be an unbearable clash with NAQP CW.

If they were all on separate weekends (which does not appear 
possible from the calendar) I would enter all three contests, but 
there appears to be no way to make that happen.

I vote to make the switch.


Dave Hachadorian, K6LL
Yuma, AZ




-----Original Message----- 
From: Chris Plumblee
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 1:16 PM
To: rtty at contesting.com ; Don Hill AA5AU
Subject: Re: [RTTY] 2011 Roundup

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
> To: 'RTTY' <rtty at contesting.com>
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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
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