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@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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