After all the talk about working XF4IH I finally heard them on 20m early in
the week some time, guessed at the split, called, and had them come back
immediately first try. Not sure what I did right because there were a ton
of people on there at the time. Yesterday I heard them calling CQ on about
14070, on PSK31 calling CQ +5, again, guessed at the freq and got a response
right away, they seemed to be calling on the same freq every time -
thankfully so because there were about a dozen other stations on 14070 at
the time, would've been hard to figure out which was them calling me back.
-----Original Message-----
From: rtty-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:rtty-bounces@contesting.com] On
Behalf Of Jim Reisert AD1C
Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 6:42 PM
To: RTTY
Subject: [RTTY] XF4IH secret revealed!
Tonight I finally worked XF4IH on 17m RTTY after having not been around the
right times.
The secret is that he seems to be working with a fixed RIT of +5 KHz. So
he tunes around and finds a station to answer, then his transmit frequency
moves. To work him, either:
1. Find the guy he is working and listen exactly 5 kHz down for XF4IH
2. Find a clear frequency to transmit on, and listen exactly 5 kHz down
for XF4IH
This was my #280 in about 5 years of RTTY operating.
Good luck, all!
73 - Jim AD1C
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Jim Reisert AD1C, 7 Charlemont Court, North Chelmsford, MA 01863
USA +978-251-9933, <jjreisert@alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.com
PGP Fingerprint: D8E2 3D78 339F A7F1 8C13 1193 B5D1 4FB6 79D1 70DC
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