[GreenKeys] rtty reception woes

Wed, 7 May 2003 06:53:18 -0500

Don't forget that a great source is the ARRL Bulletins that are sent several
nights each week. As I recall on 14.095 or so, at 8pm CDT Check www.arrl.org
for a schedule.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Roy Norris" <[email protected]>
To: "gil smith" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 11:01 AM
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] rtty reception woes

> 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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