[RTTY] GU0SUP in the RRU

[Kok Chen]

On Jan 10, 2011, at 2:18 PM, Phil Cooper wrote:

> I missed out on VE6WQ, but maybe propagation didn't favour the path. I did
> see VE7CC calling folk, but never found him CQ'ing.

VE3WQ was there... worked him on 20m towards the end of the first UTC day.  But didn't work VE7CC until almost the end of the second UTC day, on 15m no less.

> I did keep checking 10m, but it was dead, apart from one time when I heard some weak RTTY, and then saw it was V5/DJ2HD. 

The one time I checked 10m and found it to not be dead, I worked one station in Oregon, and one station all the way in Florida.  Go figure.

> I did get WV and RI, but they weren't easy to find!

I thought KU1T sent me WV very early in the contest so I just logged it as WV.  I never did find a RI station calling CQ, but saw a number of them answering CQ.  Infuriating :-).

I was semi drooling when I saw J39BS answer a couple of CQ.  Then finally found him CQ'ing.  He was already at QSO 985!  KH2JU was a good catch, he was only at QSO 31 at the start of the second UTC day.  When I found ZM4M at around the same time, he was at QSO number 12 and FO8RZ was at QSO 31.

The surprise this time was I only found two Hawaii stations, KH6ZM, who was pulling in a large QSO number, and KH6CO who had a much lower QSO count.

> I really cannot understand what makes someone call again and again. UU9JQ did this to me on at least 4 or 5 occasions, possibly more, and it got to be a real nuisance.

I saw one frequency brawl where one side asked the other to be a gentleman and move.  

As a contesting teetotaler, I never could understand why some station would choose to stay around to fight.  Bill W9OL can count up the milliseconds lost :-) :-).  I would just QSY myself.  Since I use a waterfall display, I could see that one side of the passband they were fighting over was unoccupied in the Pacific Northwest (unless there is a station within skip distance from me).  Some of my best catches during a contest came from stuff above 14100 anyway.   Lots of space up above 14100 and if you didn't go up there to look, you could have missed 4U1WB :-).  And if you don't tune low enough on 20m, you could have missed P49X.  I go to where the DX is, and often, they are not in the RTTY alley.

BTW, I did look for PSK31 stations, but they all seem to be involved in some "PSKFEST" and sending RSQ :-).  So I passed.

73
Chen, W7AY