[RTTY] Field Day

[Jim N7US]

After visiting a local FD station that had a PSK station, I got on RTTY from
home for fun.  I had 80 QSOs in a couple hours, but I was using good
antennas and had my KPA500 on (not submitting a log).

It was fun though some stations transmitted "please copy..." and some were
typing everything on the keyboard.  At least they were trying, though
obviously didn't have anyone there to help set up the contest program with
effective contest messages or help with techniques.  I thought it might be
helpful for those types to see an example of how a RTTY contest could be
done efficiently, though my home station made that easy, of course.

Since then, I've been helping the guy running the GOTA station on PSK get
his RTTY station set up for contesting.

73, Jim N7US



-----Original Message-----


For Field Day this year the club I'm in now is pretty much a laid back club
that doesn't give a hoot about trying to win any category it's a go out and
try to make contacts, work as many stations as you can and a social event at
the same time. We had three PSK-31 stations going most of the time. One CW
station and two SSB stations. There was plenty of PSK activity especially on
20m. SSB station stayed on 10m, 15m & 40m. Don't remember what went on for
80m. RTTY activity was slim to none. It got to the point I didn't even check
for RTTY activity much at all. Don't think we worked half the PSK stations. 

PSK is so easy to set up and get going especially for non-contest type ops,
it's the easiest mode for everyone to work. In fact I'm pretty sure if we
had done away with SSB and CW and ran PSK on all bands with 2 points per
contact we would have doubled our score and had the same amount of time for
social activity time to boot.:-) Like I said I'm now in a very laid back
club.

PSK-31 was active for us in the 4 Corners area.

73, de Ron K5DJ
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-----Original Message-----

Due to health problems, I did not get to my club FD site. I did set up for
RTTY at my home station. In the first 1 hour 15 minutes I had only 17 calls
in my log using N1MM program. I ended Saturday with 62 calls. There are just
not many making the effort to do digital modes. My club has tried it several
times with the same results. The only good thing about digital mode for FD
is that each contact is 2 points. In a club of 22 members I am the only CW
operator and thus there were no CW calls in their log.  CW and SSB are still
the dominate modes.

73  Dick  KS0M