[RTTY] E30FB Eritrea TrIfecta

Tue Mar 17 16:52:13 EDT 2015

Congrats to all who worked them!

I got them too on Sunday on RTTY.  It was the hardest contact on RTTY 
that I have made.  I only run 500 watts so I generally take a backseat 
to the big boys with bigger antennas and 1500 watts.  I was pretty much 
resigned to not working them on RTTY when I saw my call print!

I worked them early on on 10, 15 and 20m SSB.  Quite easily on the 1st 
day which was shocking again 500 watts on SSB takes a back seat.  I got 
them on 17m and 12m too.  30 and 40 meters just never happened.   So 
that chase will continue.  80m they were barely heard here and I have 
nothing on 160 that would get there but I think very few worked them 
from the states on 160.

I have to wonder if RTTY was just an after thought.  Obviously the 
reverse sending was a problem for a few days.  The rate was terrible.  I 
worked the 7q and 9Q stations very easily in comparison, the pileups 
were smaller but well managed.  Maybe the E30 guys had terrible noise to 
deal with.  I guess we will find out in the coming days.  I know that 
160 noise was a huge problem for them.

I was happy with one contact as it was an ATNO on any band mode.

Mike W0MU

On 3/17/2015 1:21 PM, Al Kozakiewicz wrote:
> 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
> ________________________________________
> 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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