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[RTTY] WAE and confusion!

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Subject: [RTTY] WAE and confusion!
From: IronmanY2K@triathlete.com (IronmanY2k)
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 13:30:26 -0800 (PST)
Well, my third RTTY contest under the belt and the wounds are starting to heal 
already.  Conditions were constantly changing and I never could predict who I 
would work from which direction.  Perhaps I should have just used the vertical.

I got 3XY7C on all bands except 80m.  Even exchanged QTCs with him.  I spent 
all last week putting down radials in the hopes of getting lots of 4x 
multipliers.  Not much luck with only 13 contacts on 80m.  

I was working a station and he gave me a report of "599 PRY PRY"."   Must be a 
problem decoding because his signal is very strong and it seems to read 
perfectly.  "NR? NR? BK."  I get the same report agn.  After another try he 
sends me "046 046."  I got it that time.  This happens a few more times as the 
contest continues.  I start to figure that it is some RTTY code so I try to 
decipher it.  By the end of the contest I had most of the code broke:
1-Q, 2-W, 3-E, 4-R, 5-??, 6-Y, 7-U, 8-I, 9-T or O, 0-P.  

Well just this morning it hit me like a brick.  I have taken typing before and 
I could see my notes almost said "QWERTY."  Obviously the letters corresponds 
with the numbers above them.  Well, this little tid bit of information would 
have saved a lot of heartache during the test. hihi.  

Then, I was searching and pouncing when I came across a signal.  As I tuned it 
in they were sending my callsign out.  What?  You guessed it, I was copying 
someone sending QTCs.  I had to laugh at myself agn.  

I even had one station who kept calling me but I could not read his sig, it 
looked backwards so finally I press REV. sure enough he was there.  He said I 
was his first RTTY contact ever.  We talked for about a minute as I explained 
to him how to fix it.  I think I will send him my card for that one.  

Thanks to all for putting up with me on the bands.  I enjoy RTTY contesting 
more than any other mode.  I plan on getting on RTTY more in  between contest 
and learning more about it.

73, Jim
AD6WL


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