[GreenKeys] TTY activity

[wa3frp at aol.com]

Not only does RTTY activity thrive during the contests, there is a lot 
of great DX available to print almost every day.  For example, I had a 
nice QSO on 40M RTTY the other day with Manfred HZ1IK in Saudi Arabia.  
That was followed up with a series of QSOs on 15, 17, 20, and 30 Meters 
with XT2C, the DXpredition to Burkina Faso.  Only a geography major or 
perhaps ham radio operator interested in DX would have a clue where 
Burkina Faso is located (in Africa, south of Mali, north of Benin and 
Ghana, and west of Niger).

It is difficult to be competitive in a contest today using a 
teleprinter, but it can be done.  The advantage of the computer over a 
teleprinter is the use of very concise macros that deliver the contest 
required exchange information.  I've duplicated these macros using 
paper tape.  My problem is the fact that I can't last the 24 or 36 
hours that it takes to operate one of these contests.

Aside from contests and DX, I find folks to QSO with in NA, SA and EU 
almost every day.  Most, if not all, are using computers. Many had 
teleprinters in the past and wish they had kept them. Right now, 20M is 
open to EU and there are stations in Croatia, Spain and Portugal look 
for QSOs.

Hopefully, I'll print more of the folks on this list using my Teletype 
Model 28 in the very near future.

73
Russ - WA3FRP


-----Original Message-----
From: telegrapher at att.net
To: GreenKeys at mailman.qth.net
Sent: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 8:57 PM
Subject: [GreenKeys] TTY activity

For those of you who don't have or operate on the HF bands, judging 
 from the activity during the contest last weekend there is no doubt 
that RTTY activity thrives. Not only was there activity on 15 but also 
on 20 (bunches of stations), 40M had 50 kc of rtty station activity and 
80 was very busy on Saturday evening as well. 
 
I wonder how many of them have heard of the greenkeys list? Didn't 
print any stations that i recognize from the list here. 
 
Larry 
W0OGH 
 
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