[RTTY] RTTY Honor Roll and SV2ASP/A too!

[Don Hill AA5AU]

Congratulations Joe! It is well deserved!

I love the way you worked XV2RZ. That is the way we did in the old days. It reminds me of the time I took a whole week off from work
in hopes of working XZ1N in November 1996.  I spent hours and hours tuning for them on RTTY. Finally on Wednesday as it got near
sunset, I heard a Japanese station calling someone on 20M RTTY but could not hear the DX. Then another JA and another, but no
pileup. One of the JA stations sent XZ1N and I then knew it was them but I still couldn't hear them. I waited for what seemed an
eternity and finally at sunset I got print. He called CQ, I answered simplex and he came right back to me. Five minutes later, I
couldn't hear him anymore and I never heard them again on RTTY the rest of their trip.

Good luck with 7O. I wished they had started RTTY sooner in the trip. A fellow member of the Delta DX Association sent the team
leader an email a few days ago, before they finally started doing RTTY, asking for them to spend more time on RTTY (he didn't need
it on RTTY but wanted others to get a chance). The team leader did reply and after hearing his answer, I am surprised they are doing
as much RTTY as they are.

Great going Joe. I am looking forward to seeing your call at the top of the list one day.

Just don't get me started on whether or not I think BS7 should be considered a DXCC entity. It is a DXCC Entity so I will do
whatever it takes to work them on RTTY if and when someone ever goes back there.

73, Don AA5AU

-----Original Message-----
From: rtty-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:rtty-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of k0bx at arrl.net
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2012 2:45 PM
To: rtty at contesting.com
Subject: [RTTY] RTTY Honor Roll and SV2ASP/A too!

Hi Guys, some of you might recognize my call-sign, K0BX, as I have been on 20 meter RTTY for the past 38 years (1974) and in most of
the RTTY contests.
Well, I finally made RTTY Honor Roll.  At the end of 2011 I had 329 confirmed on RTTY.  I then got PJ5/SP6IXF in the mail bring the
total to 330.
So I looked at my needs list and saw that XV2RZ was going to be on RTTY.  I watch for him every day and found him on 20 meter RTTY
at high noon local time. After the Europeans faded away, I was able to snag him.  Oh happy days!!  But, like they say on TV, there's
more!  3 weeks later I was tuning around 20 RTTY at my early gray-line (5 PM Local) and found SV2ASP/A calling CQ!  I have been
trying to work him since he got on RTTY in the 90's.  He finally stopped calling CQ, I called and he came right back!  When we
finished our QSO, I expected a pileup, but no, only one 2 land station called and worked him.  The Monk went back to calling CQ.  I
didn't want to spot him as I wanted others that were tuning the band to work him first, but no one was comming back to his call.  So
I wented ahead a spotted him.  After that a small pileup started and the Monk stayed on RTTY for several hours giving out a new one
to many.

I am going to Dayton Hamvention this week and will have my cards check.  So in a week or two my RTTY Count will be update.  I don't
think in my lifetime that I will get to "Top of the Honor Roll on RTTY" but at least now I am up with the big boys; NA0Y, N4CC,
AA5AU and WX5L.

BTW here is the list of remaining countries that I need on RTTY:
1A, 7O, BS7, BV9, FT5W, VK0M, VU7, ZS8.  No I  have not worked the 7O6T on RTTY yet.  I have tried but when he is readable here, the
pileups are really big.

I will see some of you at the RTTY Forum Noon on Saturday at the Hamvention.

Joe K0BX
Florissant, MO.  Part of the Metro of St. Louis MO
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