[RTTY] Change in pileup procedure?
Susan King
susan.k5du at gmail.com
Tue Feb 4 12:07:30 EST 2014
And the folks who can't find the split button are going to figure out this
scheme?
Susan K5DU
On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 3:18 PM, Bill Turner <dezrat1242 at wildblue.net> wrote:
> ORIGINAL MESSAGE: (may be snipped)
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> On 2/4/2014 3:53 AM, Tom Haavisto wrote:
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>> Have you really thought this through, and does your gear even support
>> this style of operation?
>>
>
> REPLY:
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> 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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