[RTTY] VK0EK RTTY Update

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they worked a lot last evening, but then condx were better....I saw the first spot from a N1 aboout 0140 or so, and saw the corresponding call on DXA....never a whisper, and few, if any logged, on DXA.....about 10 minutes later, barely started to copy, and then, just like flipping a switch, they were actually moving the S meter !!!! clearly heard him sending DN and based on the email from yesterday (thanks Don!!) found the K8 he just worked around 133.4 and bingo, in the log !!!!! listened for several more minutes, by 0240 or so, they were loud, and had a good rate going....at times, had deep QSB, but then back up to very loud.....solar condx werent the best, so hate to blame them, but as stated earlier, not sure they had the best plan for RTYY from the start....

> On 4/10/2016 11:45:10 AM, Don Hill AA5AU (aa5au at bellsouth.net) wrote:
> > I just received email from Arliss, W7XU, that the 30 meter antenna has been
> taken down and there will be no more 30M RTTY in anticipation of their
> departure "sometime tomorrow" due to approaching bad weather.
> 
> I thanked Arliss for his catch-up work on RTTY. He did what he could but
> unfortunately he had little to say about how much RTTY would be operated. He
> was sorry that more RTTY contacts did not make it into the log. It's
> certainly not his fault.
> 
> This is not the first time we've seen RTTY take a back seat. The biggest one
> that comes to mind was the last BS7 operation (the last one I need and place
> that should never have been a DXCC entity but that's another discussion).
> And there have been plenty others. There are some very well-known DXpedition
> leaders who do not like RTTY and have limited their operations to very
> little, if any, RTTY. Other operations, such as the current FT4JA
> DXpedition, give RTTY a high priority.
> 
> RTTY is now mainstream. There are more RTTY operators now than ever before
> as there has been an explosion in RTTY operators in the past 10-15 years.
> 
> Don AA5AU
> 
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