[RTTY] RTTY Digest, Vol 108, Issue 5

Sun Dec 4 20:22:18 PST 2011

But oh la la after 8 am what a great run and contest!!!

AA7FY

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>   1. Re: 10 meter contest (John Merrill)
>   2. J6 (W0MU Mike Fatchett)
>   3. Re: J6 (Jerry Flanders)
>   4. Re: J6 (Mike Harris)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2011 05:31:20 -0700
> From: John Merrill <johnn1jm at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [RTTY] 10 meter contest
> To: rtty at contesting.com
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> Good idea.
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> 73, John N1JM
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> On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 4:39 AM, Ken Alexander <k.alexander at rogers.com>wrote:
> 
>> Well, here I am sitting in front of my radio since 1115 UTC and barely
>> anything heard.  I have heard, and seen on the waterfall, the weakest
>> traces of RTTY and have heard occasional strong bursts via MS.  Nothing
>> workable.  I guess I'm just a little too enthusiastic for my own good.
>> 
>> Note to self:  Next year, sleep in an extra hour or go to church (8:00
>> AM service) and try afterwards.
>> 
>> 73,
>> 
>> Ken
>> VE3HLS
>> 
>> 
>> On 03/12/2011 8:15 PM, Tom Osborne wrote:
>>> Looks like this is gonna be a winner contest.
>>> 
>>> Started out with 20 Q's in the first 20 minutes then my sweetie said
>>> "Dinners done" :-)  When I got back, things had really slowed down.
>> Looking
>>> forward to tomorrow after church.
>>> 
>>> I like everything about this format--everyone works everyone and low
>> power!
>>> Can't beat that.  73
>>> Tom W7WHY
>>> 
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2011 10:44:44 -0700
> From: W0MU Mike Fatchett <w0mu at w0mu.com>
> Subject: [RTTY] J6
> To: rtty at contesting.com
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> I hope I put a small dent in the RTTY needs for J6.  I wish I could have 
> operated more but this was a vacation and exploratory trip.  I hope to 
> return in February if the stars align.
> 
> I had some issues with the multichannel decoders but I think I got 
> better as the trip went on.  When working right it is really quick.
> 
> I do need some help in setting up my macros to allow for a now XX1XX as 
> I had a number of stations in the queue but my macros were set for one 
> at a time.
> 
> The RTTY pileups might have been worse than any of the others.   Some 
> people still continue to send their brag files which is just a waste of 
> time.  Nothing personal but my goal is to work people quickly.  Your 
> radio and location and even your name is not needed.  599 is all I was 
> looking for.
> 
> It was easy to spot those who attempt to brute force their way into the 
> log by finding the station I am working and just open up on top of 
> them.  The decoder allows you to see those stations jump around.  I 
> would run simplex until the masses arrived and refused to listen, at 
> that time I had to go split.  Most of the time my xmit frequency clear.  
> This trend of nonstop calling and calling over the top of the station 
> that was called is getting worse, nearly as bad as CW or SSB where once 
> I asked the ssb pileup if they intended to work me or just create noise 
> and not allow me to work anyone.  Even with the few contacts a few 
> people felt the need to dupe me a number of times.
> 
> Thanks for your patience while I stumbled along HI!
> 
> I worked about 500 RTTY contacts out of the 1600 contacts I made outside 
> the CW contest.
> 
> My logs are up on clublog.org and all contacts for J6M and J6/W0MU have 
> been uploaded to LOTW.  QSL via W0MU.
> 
> Mike W0MU
> 
> 
> -- 
> Mike W0MU
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2011 13:08:15 -0500
> From: Jerry Flanders <jeflanders at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: [RTTY] J6
> To: W0MU Mike Fatchett <w0mu at w0mu.com>,rtty at contesting.com
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> At 12:44 PM 12/4/2011, W0MU Mike Fatchett wrote:
> 
> 
>> I had some issues with the multichannel decoders but I think I got
>> better as the trip went on.  When working right it is really quick.
> 
> MMVARI? I can't find anything to read on how to set it up for 
> multichannel, except at the n1mm site. Does the multichannel feature 
> work ONLY with n1mm?
> 
> Jerry W4UK 
> 
> 
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> Message: 4
> Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2011 15:17:00 -0300
> From: Mike Harris <mike.harris at cwimail.fk>
> Subject: Re: [RTTY] J6
> To: rtty at contesting.com
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> No, also in Logger32.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Mike VP8NO
> 
> On 04/12/2011 15:08, Jerry Flanders wrote:
>> At 12:44 PM 12/4/2011, W0MU Mike Fatchett wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> I had some issues with the multichannel decoders but I think I got
>>> better as the trip went on.  When working right it is really quick.
>> 
>> MMVARI? I can't find anything to read on how to set it up for
>> multichannel, except at the n1mm site. Does the multichannel feature
>> work ONLY with n1mm?
>> 
>> Jerry W4UK
>> 
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