[RTTY] Change in pileup procedure?

Jay WS7I ws7ik7tj at gmail.com
Tue Feb 4 10:24:05 EST 2014


Sort of reminds me of a guy in Iceland as I recall from days gone past.  
He would CQ and then listen for about 5-10 minutes on his frequency and 
then work 20 stations or so without pause.  Worked fine.

Guess Eddie's method seems better than what you're thinking about Bill.

http://www.ewarg.org/g0azt.htm

Best advice on these mega-expeditions is just to wait for a while.  They 
get much easier as time goes on.

Jay

On 2/4/2014 7:18 AM, Bill Turner wrote:
> ORIGINAL MESSAGE:          (may be snipped)
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> On 2/4/2014 3:53 AM, Tom Haavisto wrote:
>> Have you really thought this through, and does your gear even support 
>> this style of operation?
>
> REPLY:
>
> I've thought it through as much as I can without actually doing it.
>
> Even simple gear would support this as long as long as the rig has two 
> VFOs.
>
> Here's how I would do it:
>
> 1. Initially set both VFOs to his CQ frequency.
> 2. When he finishes his CQ, go to VFO B and move up to a clear frequency.
> 3. Continue to call his until he answers me or I get tired, always 
> monitoring my own freq to be sure it's clear.
> 4. If another station is calling him on my freq, QSY unless the other 
> station is weaker than the DX would be if he called me.
>
> Dual receive would be nice but not absolutely necessary.
>
> The DX station should CQ every few minutes. The format could be CQ CQ 
> CQ QYF <CALL> UP or possibly some variation.
>
> Keep in mind the three major advantages:
>
> 1. No jammers on the DX CQ frequency. If they do jam a calling 
> station, it's only one station instead of jamming for everybody.
> 2. Anyone who forgets to go split won't bother anyone. In fact just 
> the opposite: That's one more clear freq UP.
> 3. No need for the Kilocycle Kops with their UP UP UP and various 
> obscenities and other stations telling the Kops to QRT, etc, etc.
>
> The only way to know this would work is for a DXpedition to try it. 
> Let's hope one does, and of course they must announce QYF operation 
> well beforehand, explaining what's involved.
>
> 73, Bill W6WRT
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