[RTTY] JA RTTY on 80 during the CQWW

[Jeff Stai]

That is helpful - thanks! In last year's JARTS contest I logged 37 JAs on
80. So they are around. ;)

73 jeff wk6i at W7RN

On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 3:35 PM, Lee Sawkins <ve7cc at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Hi Jeff
>
> I made a handful of contacts with JA on 80. The activity by JA on 80 was
> very poor every though propagation was good. I only had 2 answer my CQs.
> These were on 3599.5. I also worked a couple between 3570 and 3575 and
> another few around 3530. I also was called by a couple of UA0s and YB1AR,
> so propagation was definitely not the problem. Just lack of activity.
>
> 73 Lee VE7CC
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> From: "Jeff Stai" <wk6i.jeff at gmail.com>
> To: "REFL-RTTY" <RTTY at contesting.com>, "7L4IOU" <ncb02761 at nifty.com>
> Sent: Monday, September 28, 2015 9:31:20 PM
> Subject: [RTTY] JA RTTY on 80 during the CQWW
>
> Effective this year JA RTTY ops may operate between 3520 and 3575 KHz. It
> used to be 3520-3530KHz. (They can also operate a range above 3599 but
> squeezing into that 1KHz sliver for US ops seems like a bad approach...?)
>
> This year I tried running at 3574 with just a handful of contacts, though
> at least I got JA in the log on 80 for the mults. The idea being I would
> still be close enough to the 3580 range to get other S&P.
>
> Later, I am wondering if that was a bad choice since JA antennas might
> still be tuned for the lower end.
>
> I'm just wondering if anyone tried a different approach with any degree of
> success.
>
> 73 jeff wk6i
>
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