Re: [Elecraft] QRP RTTY

2015-06-29 Thread Bill Frantz
To follow up: Many messages, both on and off list, indicated I should give RTTY a good try during field day. My results this year were a total of 201 digital QSOs with 21 RTTY QSOs. I had 3 dups between RTTY and PSK. (RUMPed seems to consider RTTY PSK separate modes and I didn't manually

Re: [Elecraft] QRP RTTY

2015-06-29 Thread Mel Farrer via Elecraft
to complete a contact.. Cheers, Mel, K6KBE From: Bill Frantz fra...@pwpconsult.com To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Monday, June 29, 2015 2:23 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] QRP RTTY To follow up: Many messages, both on and off list, indicated I should give RTTY a good

Re: [Elecraft] QRP RTTY

2015-06-29 Thread Jim Brown
On Mon,6/29/2015 2:56 PM, Mel Farrer via Elecraft wrote: I think the correct answer to your question on QRP RTTY is to compare the eff of it to other modes of digital modulation? No, it's a different question. In the context of Field Day, effectiveness is defined by the number of QSOs in the

Re: [Elecraft] QRP RTTY

2015-06-29 Thread Bill Frantz
Jim is right about this one. However, there was a huge gap between the RTTY world and the PSK world and it wasn't the technical differences in the modes. On field day you expect to find all levels of experience, from the seasoned contest op to someone using a radio for the first time in a

Re: [Elecraft] QRP RTTY

2015-06-29 Thread Jim Brown
On Mon,6/29/2015 6:04 PM, Bill Frantz wrote: Jim is right about this one. However, there was a huge gap between the RTTY world and the PSK world and it wasn't the technical differences in the modes. Thanks, Bill. That's sort of what I was expecting. I ran 1A QRP Battery Solar with W6JTI and

Re: [Elecraft] QRP RTTY

2015-06-23 Thread Ray Sills
Indeed, QRP RTTY is quite possible. I worked ER5LL (Moldova) back in October of 2012 via RTTY. And, it was on 40 meters, at night, using an indoor AlexLoop antenna, running 3 watts. True, it was during a contest, but nevertheless, a QSO is a QSO. Pretty cool! And, I was using -just-

Re: [Elecraft] QRP RTTY

2015-06-22 Thread Wayne Burdick
When the bands are open, you can work DX with QRP RTTY, though of course the S/N isn't as good as with CW. One field day I made about a dozen RTTY contacts in half an hour using FSK-D mode and 5 W. I had a long random wire up in a tree (probably 80' or so), plus a few radials. Wayne N6KR On

Re: [Elecraft] QRP RTTY

2015-06-22 Thread Jeff Stai
On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 1:52 PM, Bill Frantz fra...@pwpconsult.com wrote: Has anyone had success in QRP RTTY operation? Should I consider RTTY a mode only suitable for higher power? hi Bill - I write the results article in QST for the RTTY Roundup. Several people who operated in the Roundup

[Elecraft] QRP RTTY

2015-06-22 Thread Bill Frantz
Last year during field day, I made 186 PSK contacts and 1 RTTY contact running QRP. I tried for many more RTTY contacts, but in all but one case, the other station could not hear me. The one exception was on 10 meters with a station across San Francisco bay from our operation and probably line

Re: [Elecraft] QRP RTTY

2015-06-22 Thread Keith Onishi
I have worked FT5ZM in 21RTTY with KX3 5W from JA. Of course, pileup was very light then. When condition is very good and noise level is low at the other location, QRP RTTY is very possible. 73 de JH3SIF, Keith 2015/06/23 5:52、Bill Frantz fra...@pwpconsult.com のメール: Last year during field