[RTTY] VK0EK RTTY Update

[Martin Berube]

I was able to work VK0EK last night.  The info Dom shared was very
helpful.  tnx again!  Unfortunately, i beleive they got my callsign wrong.

Didn't copy FT4JA at all last on 30m.  Maybe next time.

73, Martin VE2NMB

2016-04-10 13:28 GMT-04:00 Jim Lawrence <jim.w7ct at gmail.com>:

> Not only RTTY.  CW and SSB pileups are the same.  Some guys just never
> stop calling.  I won't say I have never done it, but, if you heard me do
> it, it was a mistake on my part.  Then there is the blantant DQRM, but,
> that's another story.
>
> I was lucky enough to get both FT4JA and VK0EK on RTTY:-)  Just didn't
> realize how lucky I was:-) until I started reading this thread.
>
> 73
>
> Jim W7CT
>
>
> On 4/10/2016 11:06 AM, WW3S wrote:
>
>> On 4/10/2016 11:45:10 AM, Don Hill AA5AU (aa5au at bellsouth.net) wrote:
>>> 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
>>>
>>> That being said, how do we educate these newer ops on pileup etiquette?
>> (if it is all newer ops?).....listening to the 4W pileup, trying to find
>> the qsx, and they give a DL6 a 599 and K5 keeps giving his call, they
>> respond to a SP6, and the same K5, over and over and over.....and he’s not
>> the only one....I can understand if one has lite copy, and they come back
>> to a similar call, but there nothing similar about OZ8A and a
>> K5.....eventually, the guy works him, so he thinks the method he is using
>> is correct, but it isnt.....I know Ed has written some articles on the
>> subject, but how do we get them into the right publications, websites so
>> the offenders read them ?
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