[RTTY] Make RTTY Heard duiring Field Day this weekend!

[Jim Rhodes]

Will be doing RTTY @ K0TFT as usual. PSK31 is not a contest mode. JT65 is
most definitely not a contest mode!

Jim Rhodes
K0XU

On Jun 22, 2017 11:01 AM, "Stanley Zawrotny" <k4sbz.stan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Last year the Tallahassee Amateur Radio Society (TARS) digital station was
> using PSK31 with poor results. I showed them RTTY and their numbers
> increased. This year they have asked me to join them, so I expect to do a
> lot of running on RTTY. Look for K4TLH 3A in NFL.
>
> Stan, K4SBZ
>
> "Real radio bounces off the sky."
>
> On Jun 21, 2017, at 10:14 PM, Ryan Noguchi <ai6do at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >> I'm not a big PSK31 operator -- it's just something I play around with
> >
> >
> > now and then -- and I certainly have never contested with it. Or, for
> > that matter, I've never even seen a PSK31 contest, so I have no idea how
> > they do it.
> >
> >
> > The PODXS 070 Club runs about one contest a month. The contest calendar
> can be found at podxs070.com, and these don't always make it to the
> WA7BNM Contest Calendar.  The contest results are posted live at
> hamclubs.info/scorer.
> >
> > It's a very different experience than a typical RTTY contest. The
> community of PSK31 contesters is pretty small, so rates are pretty low.
> During a typical RTTY contest, most every RTTY signal you see is someone
> participating in the contest. That's definitely not the case with PSK31.
> Even when I call CQ CONTEST, every 3rd caller just has to send that long
> brag file, making me want to cry and gouge my eyes out. I find my sanity
> lasts longer when I just S&P in PSK31 contests.
> >
> > The European PSK63 contests are much more orderly and RTTY-like, but
> those signals don't often make it over the pole well to those of us on the
> West Coast.
> >
> > 73, Ryan AI6DO
> >
> >
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