Funny you should mention RTTY San.  I was dialing around the bands this morning and stumbled onto a lot of 20M RTTY all running 50 baud reverse.  Come to find out it was a JARL contest.  Talking about a strange mode on the band for a contest.  I said "not for me" and spun the dial hi hi.  Why do they do that?  Don't they know it is going to drive away all of us die hard 45 baud guys??  I really don't need the D60AE but I managed to work them once or twice CW.  The TY0RU group is a different story.  They were an ATNO for me and I have now worked them several times.  This fills in a much needed central Africa hole for me and I would love to work them RTTY.
73,
Rory, K5CKS

On Sat, Oct 15, 2022 at 5:45 PM Sandy Hutson <k5yy1@cox.net> wrote:

Jay:

I have been watching the Razorback game for 3 hours, but even long before noon, I have been monitoring for RTTY on 24 or 18mc but NIL. Looking at spots every 5-10 minutes on two sites, “watching” for RTTY streaming on the two bands I need ‘em on… tune around “just in case”.. nil since propagation has been good to middle NA for last few hours. ☹

 

It appears the team is only on the FT modes this last 36 hours before they close down on those two bands I need on RTTY. Oh well, I chased and am giving up to finish watching the Razorback game as they are about to win their 4th game!!  Did the best I could to “chase, chase” as Joel says. It’s been fun, mainly working a place I had been years ago and bringing back memories of all sorts of two trips there. Nice people and good food!

 

So, Jay…go get another band/mode if you can. Appears you only beat me by 6-7 spots due to the silent FT modes.. 😊  No problem, it’s a hobby, right and not a business failure. 👍😄 I will lnot be chasing the Russian ventures to Africa, fortunately don’t need them, so now it’s time for me to rest since the D60AE started.. but I do still call my friend Didier at TX7G when I hear him.

73 “Jay”man, hope Kathy is still chasing the D60 a bit.. Who cooks when she is chasing DX? Hmmm

San YY    

 

 

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From: Jay Bromley
Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2022 5:17 PM
To: 'Rory Bowers'; 'ADXA'
Subject: Re: [ADXA] TY0RU 17M FT8 F/H

 

Hi BG Rory,

Yep, if you move a little higher in the waterfall and you are on say 18.095 it will work too, hi.  Both Kathy and I got them around 1600 hz if I remember right and they were centered right around 900 hz?  It helps if they list their frequencies so you don’t have to guess, but then like the D60 most expeditions veer off track. 

 

BTW, I had so many DX frequencies added to my WSJT-X I reset them to start over with just the basic watering holes!  😊

 

73 de jay/w5jay..

 

From: adxa-bounces@mailman.qth.net <adxa-bounces@mailman.qth.net> On Behalf Of Rory Bowers
Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2022 5:07 PM
To: ADXA <ADXA@mailman.qth.net>
Subject: [ADXA] TY0RU 17M FT8 F/H

 

Just worked them.  Strange frequency 180955 FT8 F/H -07.

GL,

Rory, K5CKS