[RTTY] Digital DXCC or ARRL Board of Directors, respectfully: have my strong disagreement

[Fabi va2up]

Hi Don and all,
while I won't get wet on the current digital vs rtty dxcc issue, concerning your inquiry I have been running low tones on radio 2 (the K3) since I got it last year. I've had no issues whatsoever. In time my left ear lost a lot of its higher freq. capabilities and being able to use low tones fsk and still being able to use the dual tone filter has been a blessing. Furthermore, as fatigue settles in running two different tones, one in each ear could make life a little easier for the so2r op. I find it helps resetting the 'compass' when the brain gets too tired. When operating so1r I now always use low tones, I find this a lot less stressful than the Pro 2 DPF's continuous hiss. 
Now for so3r...I'll be waiting for your report. GL 
 
73, 

Fabi  va2up
http://sites.google.com/site/va2upcontesting/

 

> Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 14:04:48 -0700
> From: aa5au at bellsouth.net
> To: ws7ik7tj at gmail.com; dezrat1242 at yahoo.com
> CC: rtty at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [RTTY] Digital DXCC or ARRL Board of Directors, respectfully: have my strong disagreement
> 
> Jay wrote: "but I guess its time for a
> SO3R discussion or something to fill the reflector up again."
>  
> Barring a lightning strike or major hurricane, I'll be going back to SO3R for CQWW RTTY in September.  I'll write about it in the Jan/Feb issue of NCJ.  I'm thinking about running low tones on the 3rd radio and piping the audio into the left ear along with audio from the "normal left radio" from the original SO2R arrangement.  This way I can better differentiate the different audio signals from the two radios in one ear.  I'll probably keep the 3rd radio on ten meters and will probably only use it for S&P with an 80 meter inverted vee as the antenna.  At night I may put it on 80 meters if 20 is open late into the night or all night.  It's not much but it's a start.
>  
> Wonder if anyone is running low tones on FSK and if so, are there any issues to contend with?  I'll be running a Kenwood TS870 as the 3rd radio so I won't have a TPF (TPF in my PRO III only works with high tones I believe).
>  
> 73, Don AA5AU
> 
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