[RTTY] E30FB Eritrea TrIfecta

Tue Mar 17 17:33:50 EDT 2015

I got them on the 16th, just in the nick of time!  I also ran 500 watts 
but had difficulty.  It was both a new one on RTTY and an ATNO for me.  
My low band antennas are down thanks to a tree limb falling so no effort 
from me on 30-160 meters.

73 Buddy WB4M

On 3/17/2015 4:52 PM, W0MU Mike Fatchett wrote:
> 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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