[RTTY] RTTY Activity outside of contests

[Phil Sussman]

Barry,

I'm interested in working ZS, but short on hours to do so.
For me 15 would be better than 20, but 15 has been dead over here.

73 de Phil - N8PS


Quoting Barry Murrell ZS2EZ <zs2ez at zs2ez.co.za>:

> 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.
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> 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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