I heard them too, it's hard to remember from the heat of the moment, but
you may be right about the 850Hz shift. I remember seeing something that
made me think that.
I also got told a couple times I was inverted - whilst running, mind you ;)
I guess we were ALL upside down!
73 jeff wk6i
On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 9:31 AM, Tim Shoppa <tshoppa@gmail.com> wrote:
> This may have been the first big RTTY contest that I didn't have anyone
> call me inverted.
>
> I had a couple callers I could not decode. They sounded inverted but
> setting my decoder to inverted did not help. Maybe they were inverted and
> ASCII or something.
>
> But there were a couple other funny signals. One, the guy only had a single
> tone. It's possible his second tone was at 850Hz or wider shift but I
> usually have my audio passband pretty wide and probably would've heard a
> 850Hz shift. MMTTY and 2Tone did not decode this signal, but Gritty did.
> Wow!
>
> I had a couple callers with some sort of very intermittent signal like
> their transmitter was cutting out. With enough repeats we got through.
>
> G3YYD - were these problem stations on 40M maybe? There is a time of
> evening around sunset where 40M "changes" and local easy to hear (sounds
> fine) stations are completely uncopyable due to some sort of multipath
> effect.
>
> David G3YYD and Alex VE3NEA - than you SO MUCH for 2Tone and GRITTY!!!
>
> Tim N3QE
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