[RTTY] VK0EK, no joy in Mudville.....

[Don AA5AU]

If you are in North America and need to work VK0EK on RTTY, I think your best shot is going to be 30 meters in our evening time if they show up. They have worked several NA stations all over the place - East Coast, Central, Midwest, Gulf Coast, Mountain West, West Coast and Canada (I saw at least one VE3, one VE2 and maybe a VE5 get through), the past two evenings. In other words, they've worked in just about every area of NA (I didn't see any Caribbean stations calling).
The trick is to wait until you hear them. My antenna was broken the first night, but last night after the antenna was repaired, I listened for over 3 hours and could not print them on 30 meters. The best I got was that I could hear them and I could see their mark and space signals peak in the 2Tone displays. That was for the first hour. After that, I could not tell they were even there except for the packet spots.
After about 0400Z, Joe K0BX I believe it was, put a spot out that they had moved to 10137 kHz and he worked them down one. I went there and I had good copy on them. I split down one and got them barefoot with one call. It was totally unexpected. I think that's what you are going to have to do to work them. Just wait and be patient and hopefully good things will happen. It helps if you have a 30 meter antenna. If not, try your 40 or 80 meter antenna with a tuner. 20 meter yagis make for good receive antennas on 30 meters too.
There's a couple things I did to monitor their activity on 30 meters. I monitored DXA to see that they showed they were on 30 digital, and I set up DX Summit and filtered their call with 30 meters only to watch all the spots for them on 30 to see where people were working them.
Good luck!
73, Don AA5AU

 
      From: V Sidarau <vs_otw at rogers.com>
 To: rtty at contesting.com 
 Sent: Friday, April 8, 2016 1:17 PM
 Subject: Re: [RTTY] VK0EK, no joy in Mudville.....
   
Mudville extends to Ottawa, too... The best I could get was some signs of a
signal, totally undetectable, for approx.. 15 min on 15 m last Tuesday.
That's it.    

73,
Vlad VE3IAE

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-----Original Message-----
From: RTTY [mailto:rtty-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of WW3S
Sent: Friday, April 08, 2016 12:33 PM
To: rtty at contesting.com
Subject: [RTTY] VK0EK, no joy in Mudville.....

make that Meadville.....took the morning off to try to work them on RTTY,
looks like Ole Sol refused to cooperate.....better luck next time, if there
is a next time .......
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