[RTTY] Hardest RTTY Station to Work - EVER

[Robert Chudek - K0RC]

Here's a pileup management technique you should consider. It doesn't 
matter whether you have a CW, SSB, or RTTY pileup calling. YOU are the 
one who sets the cadence. That is your goal (managing the pileup), in 
addition to working more stations in less time.

Keep in mind that you don't need to get the entire call sign twice, or 
even once. You can increase your rate by picking a few letters from the 
"mess"... Maybe you see &*N3)T4#% print to your screen. To me, it looks 
like there's a "N3" among the callers. At this point you want to 
manually insert the N3 into the call sign field. Setup up a macro (N1MM 
example here) in F12 that is something like this:

F12 Break Pile,<TX><ENTER>_!?_!?_ONLY_KN_<RX>

That will send  " N3? N3? ONLY KN "

Now listen for the N3 calling you. If the pileup is disciplined, most of 
the stations will standby and you will have a better chance of getting 
the full N3 call sign. If the pile up continues to call, continue 
pounding on the F12 function key to request the N3? again, and again, 
and again... until the pileup realizes you are not going to work anyone 
but that N3 station.

I have found the pile quickly learns that if you get a partial call sign 
and specifically ask for that partial, you are going to persist with it 
until you get that station in your log. This helps reduce the bedlam of 
a 10 second CQ and 3 minutes of callers responding.

That is my personal pet peeve; hearing the DX call CQ and then they tune 
through the pile up for a minute or two, looking to extract a full call 
sign before responding. This is guaranteed to slow your rate down to a 
crawl. The longer between your transmissions, the more unruly the pileup 
becomes.

This works for me. Maybe it will work for you.

73 de Bob - KØRC in MN

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On 5/17/2014 1:31 PM, Richard Kriss wrote:
> Thanks for the comments from all.  If it was easy, we would not do it. W1AW/0 (SD) on 17 meter RTTY has been hard for me and may be easy for others.  I gave up when the Pactor robot took over his transmit frequency and I could no longer copy the W1AW/0 (SD) RTTY on 18 MHz.  I moved to 10 and worked W1AW/0 (SD) on CW with just a few calls.  Will try on 17 again tomorrow.
>
> I have really enjoyed working the ARRL 2014 Centennial QSO Party and I am now #175 out 115K stations and #11 in Texas so I have been able to keep my head above water. Just hope I can keep it up for the rest of the year.
>
> 73 Dick AA5VU
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