[GreenKeys] rtty reception woes

[Roy Norris]

Gill,

Most of the signals you will tune out of the Ham bands are going to be 
encrypted and will appear as garble.  About the only non-Ham RTTY that I 
hear these days is the French Navy sending RY's.  On the Ham bands you will 
find plenty of RTTY that you can copy.  Listen around 14.075 to 14.100 in 
the afternoon and early evening.  Also, there is an Rtty net at 7:30 PM 
central around 3.607 Mhz.  I'll dig up frequencies on which I have recently 
copied the French Navy and several Canadian weather stations and send them 
to you later.

You will also find a number of RTTY sounding modes on the 14 mhz 
frequencies I gave you above.  Some of these are Amtor, and Pactor which 
you will not be able to receive with a standard TTY machine but there is 
still plenty of straight 170 hz shift 45 baud RTTY around.  Just keep running.

A better antenna would sure help.  Just string up a wire to a tree or 
something.  The longer the better.

Hope this helps.

Regards --

At 08:49 AM 5/6/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi folks:
>
>Well, I finally got my Kenwood TS-430S -- not that I have much time to play

Roy Norris, K4EEG
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