[RTTY] Re the 10m RTTY contest

[Don AA5AU]

I had trouble getting ZS in the log Sunday.  I heard three ZS stations that were S&P, so I fished for them but did not get any of them.  I decided to put the SteppIR in the bi-directional mode looking toward the west coast and South Africa at the same time and called CQ.  The problem with that was that I couldn't copy stations in the midwest that were answering me and coming in on the NW scatter path, so I just beamed fully to the west coast and finally a ZS station called me off the back of the antenna.  Luckily the ZS stations were strong or I would have never known they were there.

Don AA5AU



>________________________________
> From: Jim McDonald <jim at n7us.net>
>To: 'RTTY Mailing List ' <RTTY at contesting.com> 
>Sent: Tuesday, December 6, 2011 5:40 AM
>Subject: Re: [RTTY] Re the 10m RTTY contest
> 
>Barry,
>
>I was beaming east from here is the US Midwest with my 4L SteppIR last
>Sunday and was called by three stations there: ZS6PVT, ZS1JY, and ZS6WB.  As
>Don said in an earlier email, I "fished" for ZS6PVT, calling CQ a couple kHz
>away from a station he had just worked, but the others just answered my CQs.
>I don't know how much power they were running, but I was happy.
>
>Jim N7US
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>
>Not when you are down at the bottom end of Africa!!!!  From here low power
>is pure masochism - no fun at all.
>
>This fact, plus faulty antennas, meant that I left 10m alone this past
>Sunday. It is hard enough making oneself heard with high power (for us that
>means 400W) when pretty much no-one actually beams in this direction. 100W
>from here is an exercise in frustration, and I don't do frustration very
>well!!
>
>Looking forward to the Roundup - should have my antennas fixed by then
>(after 3 months of almost constant buffeting by strong winds)
>
>73 de BARRY MURRELL ZS2EZ
>KF26ta - Port Elizabeth, South Africa
>website : www.zs2ez.co.za 
>
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