[RTTY] E30FB Eritrea TrIfecta

[Al Kozakiewicz]

My impression is that the operator was probably not very experienced with RTTY. The pileups were routinely 10-15 kHz wide and I had no problem quickly picking out decodable signals from among the clutter.  Yet the QSO rate seemed agonizingly slow - maybe 1-1.5 per minute during the times I was on the air.  Note that I have no idea what the conditions were like at his end and it is not my intent to unduly criticize.

My goal with ATNOs is to try to work them on 3 modes and be happy with one.  I managed 3 CW QSO's, one SSB that apparently was busted (NIL) and a bunch of time invested on RTTY with nothing to show for it.  At least they were able to hear stations outside a few hundred km radius, unlike the recent Iraq DXpedition.

Al
AB2ZY
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From: RTTY <rtty-bounces at contesting.com> on behalf of Fred Souto Maior <py7zz at soutomaior.eti.br>
Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2015 2:53 PM
To: rtty at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [RTTY] E30FB Eritrea TrIfecta

Yes Dick I agree with you. It was very hard to me also. I worked them
almost at the end
of the dxpedition for my entity nr 335 on Digital and it was VERY VERY
difficoult. They
started with the TX\ reversed and RX normal and it was a mess. Then they
corrected the
problem but continued to be very hard. I could receive them very well
good 579 sigs
but they couldn't hear my 600 w and 4 el ant. Maybe his ant wasn't
pointed here. One of my
friends in Japan told me that only 4 JAs made it on RTTY and it's
amazing if you consider
the number of JAs that operate RTTY. Anyway it is goone now and I'm
happy I got them
on my log. Now I have to wait for 3Y-Bouvet BS7H FT5W KH5K  and VK0-Heard.

73 Fred PY7ZZ


On 17/03/2015 15:27, Richard Kriss wrote:
> No recent cluster spots so I assume the E30FB team is one their way home and the Eritrea Project 2015 is history.
>
> They were hard to hear with my setup and STX location.  I did not have too much trouble working them on CW and SSB; however, RTTY for my personal Trifecta was really hard. I tried many times on 21.080 RTTY UP over several days and on last evening 16-Mar-2015 at 2321z I finally worked and logged them up 9. E30FB as my #299 for RTTY was one of the hardest QSO’s ever for me. If it was easy, it would not be DXing.
>
> I hope the E30FB QRZ page that says they upload to LoTW is good.
>
> 73 Dick AA5VU
> Rare DX is the one you have not worked. Once worked they are just DX
>
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