[RTTY] Winter Field Day Digital

[Al Hanzl]

We operated RTTY a bit at our FD. There was RTTY activity but FD is one of biggest domestic operating events of year. Not yet sure of the winter FD activity. 
Al
K2AL

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> On Jan 21, 2017, at 4:19 PM, Bob Darlington <rdarlington at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> More than half of our FD score came from digital modes out here at the Los
> Alamos ARC.   I'd say 25% of that was RTTY, the rest PSK-31.  I'm a digital
> guy and operated one of the two radios almost exclusively on these modes
> because I'm shy on the mic.  Our club was skeptical till they saw the data.
>  Digital is where it's at, and RTTY is very fast.   The only reason we
> didn't have more RTTY contacts was because we didn't switch over till late
> Saturday night -not because of a lack of activity.
> 
> -Bob
> N3XKB
> 
>> On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 1:59 PM, James Setzler <jms_k1sd at verizon.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Greetings,
>> 
>> I've been asked by a local club to set up and operate a digital station for
>> next weekend's Winter Field Day "event" (FD is not a contest!).
>> 
>> How much digital activity is there in ARRL Field Day?  I'd heard somewhere
>> that it was mostly PSK31 with a little RTTY.
>> 
>> What is the latest consensus?  Any suggestions?
>> 
>>    73 James K1SD
>> 
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