[RTTY] RTTY Newbie Questions

[Eric Rosenberg]

I was in the RU for a short time this weekend, my first RTTY contest in 
my 40 years being licensed.  My station is a Ten Tec Orion 565with lots 
of filters(2.4, 1.8, 500) running v3.030 firmware and the latest version 
of Writelog.

I learned alot, but have even more questions.

1- what's the normal bandwidth to use? I left it between 1500 and 2 kHz, 
not knowing any better.
2- How does one monitor their own (FSK) signal to see how good or bad it 
is.
3- At some point, and I don't remember when, the vertical axis (element) 
of the XY tuning "ring" remained vertical but almost always was 
squiggly, not a clean oval. It then seemed I couldn't contact anyone!

I haveother questions, but these were on the top of the list.

Thanks& 73,

Eric W3DQ
Washington, DC