[RTTY] Contest on 20?

[Don AA5AU]

Hi Neil, welcome to RTTY!

What's been going on lately is rare DX stations showing up on 20 meter RTTY.  The past couple of days the DXpedition 9N7MD, from Nepal, has been operating 20 meter RTTY. Also, the T2T DXpedition from Tuvalu has been on 20 meter RTTY.  These stations operate split, transmitting on one frequency and listening up anywhere from 1-5 kHz or more.  On RTTY, when trying to work a rare DX station that is operating split, it's best for everyone to try and spread out and transmit where no one else is so the DX station and print you clearly. That's not always possible.  That is why you are seeing all these stations sending their calls 3 or 4 times up the band from the DX station.

73, Don AA5AU



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> From: Neilensign <neilensign at yahoo.com>
>To: "rtty at contesting.com" <rtty at contesting.com> 
>Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 12:22 PM
>Subject: [RTTY] Contest on 20?
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>Hello! 
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>I noticed a lot of rtty activity on 20 meters this week. Operators just sending their call 3 times over and over. Is this a contest? I looked online and can't find a contest This week. I'm very new at rtty but aren't contests usually on weekends? 
>Thanks!
>Neil
>N7ZYS
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