[RTTY] RTTY Activity outside of contests

COURYHOUSE at aol.com COURYHOUSE at aol.com
Sun Sep 11 16:59:08 EDT 2016


Do not despair  Barry! 
I want to vintage RTTY - - have real   mechanical machines...  for  my fun 
but also for   display  in SMECC museum.   too slow  to contest which all 
the folks   with  computer  programs  but I am not really a   contest  person 
anyway.... I am more of a gizmo/engineer  guy
 
Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org) 
 
 
In a message dated 9/11/2016 8:12:21 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
zs2ez at zs2ez.co.za writes:

Hi  All



After a quite lengthy absence from RTTY due to antenna woes  (my old A3S
snapped in a 107km/hr wind some months back, and had been  flakey for a long
time before that!) I finally have another antenna up - a  Hygain TH-7DX at 
50
ft. Over the past couple of weeks I have been calling  CQ on both 15 and 20,
with moderate to poor results. I had one reasonable  run of 75 Q's on 20m in
about 90 min on this past Thursday night, but  otherwise only a handful of
stations answering my calls.



I  run the DXLab software, and have Spotcollector monitoring 4 clusters  -
including the DL4RCK Digital Cluster. This afternoon (Sunday) at  around
14h50 I was calling on 15m, and saw at least 10 Skimmer reports from  all
over EU and NA - yet had ONE reply to my calls (PB0AEX with a good  signal).
Although I am running barefoot 100W from my TS-590S, the Skimmer  reports
show that I am getting out.. There is just nobody around to  work!!



This leaves me with only 2 conclusions - either nobody  is interested in
working ZS on 15m anymore, or there is simply nobody  around on RTTY outside
contests!!! Very sad....



73 de BARRY  MURRELL ZS2EZ

KF26ta - Port Elizabeth, South Africa

EPC#0558  DMC#1690 WCC#030 30MDG#4081

DXCC(mixed)#41,146   DXCC(RTTY)#1,916

DXCC(phone)#34,990  DXCC(CW)#11,714

DXCC  40m,30m,20m,17m,15m,12m,10m

WAS Triple Play #492   WAS(RTTY)#538  WAZ(RTTY)#185   WAE-I(mixed)#72

WAZS(mixed)#214  AAA#1569

AS ZR6DXB:  VUCC(50MHZ)#1,334  UKSMG WAE(Silver)#75  UKSMG AFRICA#22   WAC
(Satellite)

website :  <http://www.zs2ez.co.za/>  www.zs2ez.co.za



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