[RTTY] Being the fox - pileup running

[Hank Garretson]

Yee Haw! You are going to have a blast.

One tip gleaned from my operation as W1AW/6 and from listening to other
W1AW/# operations.

When you work split, include UP at the end of every CQ and at the end of
each end-of-contact acknowledgement.

Just this evening I was listening to a W1AW/# operator who sometime sent UP
and sometime didn't. It was chaos. Stations calling up, stations calling on
his frequency. Even some frequency cops.

Send UP every turnover.

While I'm thinking of it. I tried stacking. It didn't work well. While
stacking works well for me in contests, many of the guys calling W1AW/# are
not contesters and are thrown for a loop with w3xxx TU NOW w7abc 599 CA
w7abc. I found it was better to work each station one station at a time.

More thinking. Often when running during contests, I send w8aaa 599 CA
without a w8aaa at the end. For W1AW/#, I found it useful to always send
the call at the end. Likewise during contests, I often send TU W6SX CQ to
acknowledge a contact. For W1AW/#, I recommend w5xyz TU W1AW/# CQ (with UP
if split).

Diddly Exuberantly,

Hank, W6SX




On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 7:29 PM, James C. Hall, MD <heartdoc at nwtcc.com>wrote:

> Hi All:
>
> I will be W1AW/4 during the 3rd week of March running RTTY. I need a
> little advice. I, like many, use N1MM with MMTTY and 2Tone for demodulation
> during contests. Being the 'DX' for this one means potentially split
> operation, something I do routinely to put DX in the log when I'm chasing -
> but not being the DX.
>
> On our DX club reflector, it was suggested that I consider MMVARI and use
> its multi-channel RX and browser. This sounded appealing to me as I could
> use my mouse and just click the QSO's into the log (using DXpedition mode).
> I'm set up for FSK operation. With a waterfall type operation, I worry
> about not tight enough filters to effectively copy the signal. It looks
> good and I'm reading more on it such as using the Align button to get the
> target signal properly tuned. I'll use either my Mark V or my K3. I do have
> a P3 panadapter, so that's another option to line up and click signals.
>
> I plan on starting simplex and using stacking. If it gets too thick, I'll
> run split. Stacking looked like a good idea for DX'ing until you realize
> that there's a lot of jumping around on the frequencies in the split window
> - probably not practical. My macro responses will be designed for speed -
> probably as short as Ed W0YK's !
>
> So, what do DXpeditioners et al do ?
>
> 73, Jamie
> WB4YDL
>
> Sent from my iPad
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