Hi all, Having just finished up my first quasi-real contest effort, I felt like reporting my reflections on it. That was fun! I'm a relatively new licensee (May of 2012) and have been spending my tim
Thanks for the warm welcome all! And yep, I am using N1MM....thanks to Don and his wonderful site for getting me up and running. Back in May, I was doing AFSK but the wide bandwidth allowing adjacent
Hi Wayne! Welcome to Amateur Radio and RTTY. I've only been in the hobby for...let me count...sixteen months, but after spending much of that time trying out all that amateur radio has to offer (and
Hi Jeff, Being fairly new to ham radio I may have mis-heard this, but the use case I keep hearing about in my local area is to send a large Excel spreadsheet over HF via Winlink to an served-agency e
Hi all, Many amateur radio operators in my area, 0-20 miles from the Gulf of Mexico, are heavily involved in emergency communications. Indeed, my local club and the Communications Unit Leader of our
Wow, I need to learn how to edit. I meant ...."support RM-11708" in the second sentence and the word comments when I wrote filings in the third. -- /*/-=[Michael]-=/*/ _______________________________
Hi all, I participated in the CQ WW RTTY last September and had a blast, but I tried to do things too much and too fast and burned myself out on RTTY (and ham radio). I'm slowly getting back into thi
Thanks Al and Chen for the detailed explanations. Things are making more sense now. And I seem to be absolutely mistaken as to how I had my rig set up last year. This evening, I couldn't decode a sin
Hi Chen, Yes, I do have a SignaLink. My setup may not be optimal here... The FT-950's data out (receive audio) and FSK in are on the same PS/2 style connector. The SignaLink, to my knowledge, doesn't
Hi all, I did some experimenting last night to work on my RTTY receive and it was an exercise in enlightening frustration clearly in the unintended consequences/too-good-to-be-true category. :) I tri
Every ham shack needs an impressive switch. :D -- /*/-=[Michael / KT5MR]-=/*/ _______________________________________________ RTTY mailing list RTTY@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman
Very sorry to hear that, Sven. I lost my father a few years ago as well. Even though I've very new to RTTY, he is in my log from the 2013 Volta contest. -- /*/-=[Michael / KT5MR]-=/*/ _______________
Hi all, A few weeks ago I asked for advice about how to help me achieve FSK with my Signalink. Before I had to switch between the Signalink and a W3YY interface, with the audio out from my FT-950 goi
Ah! Thank you Joe. I now see what the transistor is doing. That also explains why a great many of my earlier experiments didn't work! 73, -- /*/-=[Michael / KT5MR]-=/*/ ______________________________
This prompted a question I've had. I started in digital modes with a Signalink USB because, well, that's what everyone starts with these days it seems. :D I'm curious, for dedicated RTTY operation...
What an eventful contest for me.... I hadn't done RTTY in over a year so I was quite a bit rusty. The practice last night was quite useful as I realized that I had to make some major changes in the e
Hi all, During the NAQP I used my narrow RTTY filters on my FT-950 to great effect. Whenever signals were close, if I dialed down my filter to 300 Hz bandwidth, it (of course) blocked out the adjacen
Thanks all....glad to know this is normal. I ended up doing what several suggested during the latter part of the NAQP, just keeping the volume up just high enough to be able to aid in tuning, And tha
Interesting, Tim. That is one thing I will play with. I also need to work on getting a better grasp of how adjusting the RF gain affects decoding. -- /*/-=[Michael]-=/*/ _____________________________
Hi all, Taking a break from the XE contest for a bit. Love this mode. :) It seems every contest I'm making more contacts per operating time, which is very cool. My biggest surprise in this contest ar