Congrats on that six meter RTTY contact Phil! That's quite a feat... Hope to
do more on six when the 3 element SteppIR gets here.
E4X team did an excellent job on RTTY. They covered most of the bands and the
operators (EA2RY and EA5RM) were extremely efficient
and very good. I was pretty amazed really at how fast he was able to work. It
was almost contest rate at certain times. It was
pretty weird working them on 17M RTTY yesterday when they were operating in the
CW part of the band. Wish they hadn't done that,
but otherwise an overall excellent job. Getting them on 40M RTTY last night
was icing on the cake. They ended up with over 10,000
RTTY QSO's. That's pretty amazing.
To the contrary, the 3C9B team didn't seem to have the rate going on RTTY and
only made 171 Q's. I consider myself very lucky to
get them on 17M. I just hope they do better from 3C0.
73, Don AA5AU
http://www.aa5au.com
http://www.rttycontesting.com
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From: rtty-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:rtty-bounces@contesting.com] On
Behalf Of Phil Cooper
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 2:35 PM
To: RTTY
Subject: [RTTY] The E4X team on RTTY
Hi all,
I'd just like to say how good I thought the E4X team were at catering for RTTY.
It is not often that a major DXPedition does so much RTTY. At least one station
was on RTTY every day, and for long periods of time.
Not only that, but they persisted with calls, especially through the QRM and
also the QSB.
I missed out on 40, 12 and 10m RTTY, but the pile-ups on 40m were very serious,
and on 10/12m, the conditions just weren't good
enough to make it.
I was very surprised to log them on 6m RTTY though. I was trying for them on
10m, but the QSB was deep and long, and during one of
those lulls, I went to 50.220, punched in the split, and got them 2nd call.
Went back to 10m, only to find they were now on 12m. Tried there, but not good
enough signals to make it.
Saw them being spotted again on 10m soon after, but felt dubious about that, as
they were suddenly so much stronger, and also, their
exchange had changed from the usual GU0SUP 599 GU0SUP, followed by GU0SUP TNX
E4X UP to GU0SUP 5NN, then TU UP.
Maybe it was real, I don't know, but if it was, then power to them for spending
so much time on a hard band, and also having a
station on 12m RTTY at the same time (as well as 6m!).
Apart from the time spent trying so hard on 10 and 12m, plus an hour or so on
40m, I worked them fairly easily on 30m, 20m, 17m and
15m RTTY, plus 15m CW, and didn't have to spend too long in the shack before
logging them.
I sometimes wish I had an amp, but there is quite a bit of personal
satisfaction in logging them with just 100 watts.
So, my thanks to Roberto EA2RY and the team for putting on such a good show on
RTTY.
Very best 73
Phil GU0SUP
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