[Elecraft] K2 QQuestion on Options

[R Thompson]

  During Field Day in 2010 I was part of a FD station set up in Hay
River (on the south side of Great Slave Lake).  We were using Field Day
to promote amateur radio to the public.  Anyway, both the station in Hay
River and bigger club set up back in Yellowknife were aiming to copy the
ARRL FD bulletin for the extra points.  Both stations tried to copy it
in RTTY and the digital modes, but failed.  It wasn't a matter of signal
strength or QRM, the signal was distorted (we're pretty sure it was
auroral distortion).  We finally did copy it in Hay River, on CW.

  I don't know if there are digital modes that would work with auroral
modulation on the signal.  CW works when copied by ear and not on a
computer.

  Eventually I would like to get up to speed with some of the digital
modes.  We've been looking at getting trained and equipped to do some
ARES work, but we don't know what we can do with so few amateurs
scattered over this large territory.  If there are modes robust enough
to work through auroral flutter I'm interested.

  The response to my question has been beyond my expectations, and the
comments are all helpful.

        Ron VE8RT 

On Wed, 2011-07-13 at 08:48 -0500, Tony Estep wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 8:20 AM, R Thompson <ve8rt at xplornet.com> wrote:
> 
> > .... I'm not a fan of digital modes...he only sent the info that was
> > pre-programmed in to the function keys.....
> 
> ===========
> You mean you didn't get into ham radio so you could find out some guy's CPU
> clock speed and the brand of his coax?
> 
> But digital does have its uses. Sometimes you can only get 'em on RTTY, or
> even PSK -- I just got a LOTW qsl from PP0T. In the month he was there, I
> heard him only once, and it was on PSK.
> 
> Tony KT0NY
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