[GreenKeys] Is there any support for an amateur RTTY net or "watering hole"?

[Chris Elmquist]

And another thumbs up from here.  I have several M28, ST-8000a and
Dovetron equipment that I could put on the air.  Relatively good CONUS
coverage with a lousy NVIS loop (aka, cloud burner) on 40m through 10m.
"Best" band here is 17m.

I could use some "training" on operating protocol--  what to send when
relating to Q codes, over, signal report, etc.  I don't think copying
contest activity has been a good education ;-)

Chris N0JCF
St. Paul, MN


On Friday (05/01/2015 at 11:15AM -0400), Nick England wrote:
> Good idea - It might give me the needed impetus to go ahead and get my
> M28's hooked up to transmit somewhere other than just across the room.
> n.b. I understand Russ WA3FRP is always eager to QSO with a mechanical RTTY
> Cheers,
> Nick England K4NYW
> www.navy-radio.com
> 
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 10:37 PM, Jim Haynes <jhhaynes at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> >
> > Some of us have mechanical teleprinters and ancillary equipment such as
> > FSK demodulators.
> >
> > RTTY in amateur radio these days is pretty much limited to contests and
> > DX chasing; rag chewing has gone to other modes.  There is a little
> > receive-only activity: ARRL bulletin transmissions and some transmissions
> > from weather stations and KPH on weekends, sometimes.
> >
> > I got to wondering if it would be useful to have a net so we can get
> > together and operate our gear, or some time/frequency "watering holes"
> > where we could look for and try to initiate RTTY contacts.
> >
> > Those who are interested please speak up and maybe we can get something
> > started.  I would not like to exclude those who like me don't currently
> > have any of the old gear on the air.  With proper configuration computers
> > can talk to the old machines and contribute to the activity.
> >
> > One existing net I am aware of is the military radio collectors'
> > CLATTERNET which is currently operating on Sunday evenings at 0100Z
> > (and is rather marginal at present because of conditions on 40M at
> > that time of night)  This net uses 850 Hz shift, upside-down from the
> > usual amateur practice, to accomodate real military radio gear.
> > The frequency presently is 7089 KHz, as the center between mark and
> > space, because some of the old military gear is limited to 1 KHz
> > frequency increments and to USB only.  This is primarily a West Coast
> > net, but I have been checking in with some success from Arkansas.
> > It was more successful for me during the winter months, although then some
> > of the California stations had trouble copying one another.
> >
> > Jim W6JVE
> >
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