[GreenKeys] RE: I hear K7TTY on the HoffNet in Birmingham, Just Great !!

[William Bytheway]

Roy,

Feel free to chirp in with your own QST.  I'm limiting mine to 5 or less
minutes, every half hour on the hour.  Using RTTYApp as the driver,
time-synced to time nist servers, more than one QST'er can play. If you pick
another time slot, then we won't clobber each other.  This way, maybe we can
characterize propagation.

It's no work with RTTYApp, everything is automatic, script driven, I only
have to monitor activities. The current  concept is to keep the messages
short, and repeat them as the MUF walks across the country.  I also monitor
the frequency between broadcasts and capture any other signals, but nothing
heard today.

The version of RTTYApp posted on http://www.rtty.com/bytheway supports most
BAUDOT protocols and speeds.  It even is capable of PSK31.  RTTYApp was
primarily built around a HAL ST-6 with RS-232 support, but I suppose if one
were clever, they could connect the RS-232 TX signal directly to the back of
their RTTY-capable transceiver, and be on the air. A simple transister
switch could be used for PTT using DTR or RTS.

73 de K7TTY

-----Original Message-----
From: Roy Norris [mailto:Rnorris at charter.net]
Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2004 7:23 PM
To: greenkeys at mailman.qth.net; William Bytheway
Subject: I hear K7TTY on the HoffNet in Birmingham, Just Great !!


Hi Guys,

I am back from vacation and glad to see that Bill, K7TTY has been
transmitting bulletins.  Keep it up, Bill;  I need a rest !

Bill, I have heard you most of the day hear in Birmingham after 1700Z
But early in the day, the copy was very spotty.  I had you 100% copy at
your 0130Z and 0200Z transmissions. A very nice signal around S-5 to
S-7.  Your set-up is working very well, particularly considering the
rather poor band conditions.  Solar Flux has been running under 100
(currently 88) for almost 3 weeks and the A index was 9 (unsettled).  So
to get 100 % copy on the very long path between here and Renton is
excellent.  My propagation program predicted signal strengths of s-3 to
s-4 and you were doing substantially better than that.

I am now working on a 3 element wire yagi for 30 meters.  I think that
is what it is going to take for consistent communications with Arizona,
California, Idaho, Montana and Washington.  I'll keep the two element
vertical dipole array for the micwest and the east coast but use the
wire beam for the west coast.

Best regards to all -- Roy, K4EEG