I just find FT8/4 more pleasant to operate. Puts me in more of a
supervisor position, yet not too far from the trenches. In RTTY, I feel
im doing a lot of tedious work tbat the computer should do (and does in
FT8). Maybe a bit of yesterday's technology. Yet I'm on the contest, not
religiously, as I'm taking breaks... I'm not a spring chicken and don't
want to run in troubles with the retirees union for working too hard...
--
73 de Amir K9CHP
ARRL, Emergency Coordinator, Onondaga County, NY
Radio Amateurs of Greater Syracuse www.ragsclub.org
Wilderness SAR www.wsar.org (ret.)
Eagle Valley Search Dogs www.evdogs.org (ret.)
On Sun, Feb 9, 2020, 09:09 David Gilbert <xdavid@cis-broadband.com> wrote:
>
>
> Percentage wise, is it really that much different than for CW? Outside
> of a major contest things seem comparatively dead to me on CW as well.
>
> 73,
> Dave AB7E
>
>
>
> On 2/8/2020 6:53 PM, N4ZR wrote:
> > I run an RBN node near Baltimore, MD spotting both CW and RTTY
> > 160-12M. During any normal weekend day, I'll spot maybe 1 RTTY station
> > an hour. A big contest goes on the air (like this weekend) , and
> > suddenly I'm spotting 300-400 RTTY signals per hour. I guess my
> > question is, where do they go the rest of the time?
> >
>
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