For Field Day this year the club I'm in now is pretty much a laid
back club that doesn't give a hoot about trying to win any category
it's a go out and try to make contacts, work as many stations as you
can and a social event at the same time. We had three PSK-31 stations
going most of the time. One CW station and two SSB stations. There
was plenty of PSK activity especially on 20m. SSB station stayed on
10m, 15m & 40m. Don't remember what went on for 80m. RTTY activity
was slim to none. It got to the point I didn't even check for RTTY
activity much at all. Don't think we worked half the PSK stations.
PSK is so easy to set up and get going especially for non-contest
type ops, it's the easiest mode for everyone to work. In fact I'm
pretty sure if we had done away with SSB and CW and ran PSK on all
bands with 2 points per contact we would have doubled our score and
had the same amount of time for social activity time to boot.:-)
Like I said I'm now in a very laid back club.
PSK-31 was active for us in the 4 Corners area.
73, de Ron K5DJ
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-----Original Message-----
From: RTTY [mailto:rtty-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Dick White
Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2013 8:01 PM
To: RTTY, Contesting
Subject: [RTTY] Field Day
Due to health problems, I did not get to my club FD site. I did set up for
RTTY at my home station. In the first 1 hour 15 minutes I had only 17 calls
in my log using N1MM program. I ended Saturday with 62 calls. There are just
not many making the effort to do digital modes. My club has tried it several
times with the same results. The only good thing about digital mode for FD
is that each contact is 2 points. In a club of 22 members I am the only CW
operator and thus there were no CW calls in their log. CW and SSB are still
the dominate modes.
73 Dick KS0M
Life is not the way it's supposed to be. It is the way it is. How you deal
with it is what counts.
Richard C. (Dick) White
Fulton, MO. 65251 U.S.A.
Amateur Radio Station KS0M
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