[RTTY] JA RTTY on 80 during the CQWW

[Lee Sawkins]

Hi Ed. 

I love operating on 80. During many contests I am SO2R all night long on 40 and 80 as they are the only bands open up here. I think the best is for the JA stations to operate 3575 and down and for NA stations to do more operating in that area as well. That part of the band is clear of QRM, at least from my point of view. 3520-3540 is not clear due to CW and SSB qrm. Probably I should add "also on 3573" when I work asian stations on 40! 

73 Lee VE7CC 

----- Original Message -----

From: "Ed Muns" <ed at w0yk.com> 
To: "Lee Sawkins" <ve7cc at shaw.ca> 
Cc: RTTY at contesting.com 
Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 10:56:49 PM 
Subject: Re: [RTTY] JA RTTY on 80 during the CQWW 

Thanks, Lee. Good data. It's hard to know where to transmit when we don't where they are listening. But, it sounds like the larger issue is that few to none are listening, hi. 

Maybe Hisami-san can coordinate what we should do and what JA contesters should do for more 80m QSOs. 

73, 
Ed W0YK 
On Sep 29, 2015 6:35 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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