[RTTY] Lack of RTTY on 40 and 80 Meters

[Al Kozakiewicz]

I took it for granted for a number of years that I could work all the VK and ZL on 40m I wanted if I got up at 4AM local time (East coast) on a contest weekend. 

Then cycle 24 came alive and I wondered very early one contest morning why I was so lonely...until I looked at the spots and saw that everyone down under was on 10m working Europe.

Al
AB2ZY

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From: RTTY [rtty-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Don AA5AU [aa5au at bellsouth.net]
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2014 4:55 PM
To: RTTY at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Lack of RTTY on 40 and 80 Meters

As others have noted, there is much more RTTY activity during RTTY contests. There is also an increase in RTTY activity on 40 and 80 meters during the low years of the sunspot cycle when 10M is completely dead and 15M is very poor. We take working EU from the USA on 15 meters for granted when in a few more years, most of us will not have this path at all. However, we will be able to work EU on 40 and even 80 meters.

73, Don AA5AU



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> From: David Tanks <ad4tj at yahoo.com>
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>Sent: Monday, March 24, 2014 11:23 AM
>Subject: [RTTY] Lack of RTTY on 40 and 80 Meters
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>Maybe I missed something, but could someone tell me why there is almost zero RTTY on 40, and very little on 80? I can only find activity on bands above 40.  Thanks in advance.
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>73, David AD4TJ
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