[RTTY] Way to run a pileup - H40YM

[David G3YYD]

The obvious way to be fast is to use a multi-channel decoder. Then do not
have to worry about tuning in a new station. Need to have split and then set
bandwidth on RX to 2.5KHz and start reading the multi channels so as soon as
you have listening for the guy who call you just send line up the next one.

The callers need to stay on the same frequency rather than try and guess
where the Dx will listen next. In other words do not jump around in
frequency.  

With multi channel decoders DX will ignore the "Dxcall de mycall by 5 PSE K"
callers and take the guys who send their call once or twice to max out the
rate.

Also once the guy has your callsign correct then send 599 TU twice no more
needed.

73 David G3YYD

-----Original Message-----
From: RTTY [mailto:rtty-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Tim Shoppa
Sent: 28 February 2018 15:09
To: rtty at contesting.com
Subject: [RTTY] Way to run a pileup - H40YM

I clocked H40YM over 10 minutes this morning working split RTTY on 40M. I
calculated 180 Q's per hour - a very nice RTTY rate. Perhaps the best RTTY
DXpedition rate I've heard.

I think H40YM had previously been on FT8 but I'm sure he wasn't getting
nearly as good a rate on FT8 as on RTTY. Of course for a
less-skilled-at-RTTY DX operator maybe it would be the other way around.

The RTTY pileup (US and JA callers) was exceptionally well behaved and only
2kc wide.

I got the impression that H40YM was "rewarding" ops who made short rather
than long calls which is a clear rate advantage over simplex contest
operations. He would usually be coming back to somebody's call in under 10
seconds and sometimes as short as 5 seconds.

Do we have any statistics on peak split RTTY rates from, for example, K1N
Navassa a couple years back?

How many DXpeditions are working RTTY from a waterfall with multi-signal
decoders, vs actually tuning around the pileup with a single-signal decoder?
I've heard some working from the waterfall with problems when folks jostle
around their calling frequency (I know that I do that) and they have QSY'ed
from where the DX found them several minutes ago. Real rate-killer. But a
more clued in operator working from the waterfall could do better.

Tim N3QE
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