[GreenKeys] About a "Straight Key Night" for RTTY

Mon Nov 5 14:13:24 EST 2018

Bill,

Yes, the RTTY skimmers are a great tool as well as a great technology.  The underlying software has improved over the years.  Having WZ7I close by has been a good way to confirm that I’m getting a signal out as well as confirming my frequency.

Can we try either Wednesday or Thursday at around 2000UTC? 20M will work for me - but maybe try 14086.   This coming weekend will have the bands jammed due to the WAE RTTY contest - but I won’t be able to participate too much as I’ll be at the W3ABT 50th Reunion homecoming.  A shame because the ability to send message traffic vs just 599 and zone sets WAE apart from all of the other contests (in my opinion)

Let me know if either of those two dates work for you and we can try to scorch the Ionosphere with some “real RTTY”

73 ES GL

Russ WA3FRP 

Sent from my iPhone

> On Nov 4, 2018, at 8:42 PM, William Wuttke <wcwuttke at att.net> wrote:
> 
> Russ,
> 
> I didn’t realize theat there were RTTY Skimmers, so I checked out the Reverse Beacon Network, and there I was, being spotted by a few skimmers, but not many. Anyhow, I was at least able to confirm that I was propagating more or less nationwide, including Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. So, now I know that I’m sending a RTTY signal that can be received and decoded. Thanks for the tip on the Skimmer. At first I spotted myself on the K3FEF websdr and recorded my signal, but only had about 5-7 dB SNR. The signal was pretty much unusable. The Reverse Beacon Network skimmers reported 8-39 dB SNR - mostly very usable signals.
> 
> I missed a few of my scheduled times this weekend, and made zero contacts, sending CQ for 10 minutes each hour, but I have confirmed that all of my equipment is working up to snuff, although the KWM-2 drifts a little (to be expected, I guess). The ST-8000 works fine. I’ve got the macro function working with my M33/arduino by using an escape sequence - ESC-0 thru ESC-9 - programmed via the arduino USB serial port.
> 
> Let me know when you are available this week. I’m available virtually anytime (mostly). Afternoons Pacific time are usually good. If we can’t arrange anything during the week, I’ll make another attempt next weekend.
> 
> Thanks and 73,
> 
> Bill - KE3BK
> 
> p.s. I’ve attached the Reverse Beacon Network report - I don’t know if it will make it to Greenkeys.
> 
> 
> rows to show:	showing spots for DX call: KE3BK 
> search spot by callsign
> de	dx	freq	cq/dx	snr	speed	time
> K1TTT	<us.gif> KE3BK	14093.3	RTTY CQ [LoTW] 	13 dB	45 bps	0008z 05 Nov
> VE6AO	<us.gif> KE3BK	14093.4	RTTY CQ [LoTW] 	22 dB	45 bps	2355z 04 Nov
> WZ7I	<us.gif> KE3BK	14093.2	RTTY CQ [LoTW] 	23 dB	45 bps	2355z 04 Nov
> K1TTT	<us.gif> KE3BK	14093.3	RTTY CQ [LoTW] 	16 dB	45 bps	2352z 04 Nov
> KO7SS	<us.gif> KE3BK	14095.0	RTTY CQ [LoTW] 	27 dB	45 bps	2335z 04 Nov
> K1TTT	<us.gif> KE3BK	14095.1	RTTY CQ [LoTW] 	12 dB	45 bps	2335z 04 Nov
> VE6AO	<us.gif> KE3BK	14095.2	RTTY CQ [LoTW] 	14 dB	45 bps	2335z 04 Nov
> KS4XQ	<us.gif> KE3BK	14095.1	RTTY CQ [LoTW] 	11 dB	45 bps	2335z 04 Nov
> VE7CC	<us.gif> KE3BK	14095.1	RTTY CQ [LoTW] 	28 dB	45 bps	2335z 04 Nov
> WZ7I	<us.gif> KE3BK	14095.0	RTTY CQ [LoTW] 	19 dB	45 bps	2335z 04 Nov
> KO7SS	<us.gif> KE3BK	14095.0	RTTY CQ [LoTW] 	32 dB	45 bps	2301z 04 Nov
> VE6AO	<us.gif> KE3BK	14095.2	RTTY CQ [LoTW] 	17 dB	45 bps	2301z 04 Nov
> VE7CC	<us.gif> KE3BK	14095.1	RTTY CQ [LoTW] 	39 dB	45 bps	2301z 04 Nov
> WZ7I	<us.gif> KE3BK	14095.0	RTTY CQ [LoTW] 	17 dB	45 bps	2301z 04 Nov
> K1TTT	<us.gif> KE3BK	14095.1	RTTY CQ [LoTW] 	11 dB	45 bps	2300z 04 Nov
> WZ7I	<us.gif> KE3BK	14095.0	RTTY CQ [LoTW] 	21 dB	45 bps	2201z 04 Nov
> VE6AO	<us.gif> KE3BK	14095.2	RTTY CQ [LoTW] 	24 dB	45 bps	2200z 04 Nov
> KO7SS	<us.gif> KE3BK	14095.0	RTTY CQ [LoTW] 	32 dB	45 bps	2105z 04 Nov
> VE6AO	<us.gif> KE3BK	14095.2	RTTY CQ [LoTW] 	12 dB	45 bps	2101z 04 Nov
> K1TTT	<us.gif> KE3BK	14095.0	RTTY CQ [LoTW] 	10 dB	45 bps	2100z 04 Nov
> VE7CC	<us.gif> KE3BK	14095.1	RTTY CQ [LoTW] 	27 dB	45 bps	2100z 04 Nov
> AC0C	<us.gif> KE3BK	14092.9	RTTY CQ [LoTW] 	16 dB	45 bps	0001z 04 Nov
> KS4XQ	<us.gif> KE3BK	14092.9	RTTY CQ [LoTW] 	11 dB	45 bps	2302z 03 Nov
> WZ7I	<us.gif> KE3BK	14092.8	RTTY CQ [LoTW] 	18 dB	45 bps	2302z 03 Nov
> K1TTT	<us.gif> KE3BK	14092.9	RTTY CQ [LoTW] 	8 dB	45 bps	2258z 03 Nov
> AC0C	<us.gif> KE3BK	14092.8	RTTY CQ [LoTW] 	21 dB	45 bps	2257z 03 Nov
> WZ7I	<us.gif> KE3BK	14092.8	RTTY CQ [LoTW] 	21 dB	45 bps	2251z 03 Nov
> K1TTT	<us.gif> KE3BK	14095.0	RTTY CQ [LoTW] 	12 dB	45 bps	2240z 03 Nov
> AC0C	<us.gif> KE3BK	14094.9	RTTY CQ [LoTW] 	17 dB	45 bps	2231z 03 Nov
> VE6AO	<us.gif> KE3BK	14095.2	RTTY CQ [LoTW] 	23 dB	45 bps	2231z 03 Nov
> WZ7I	<us.gif> KE3BK	14095.0	RTTY CQ [LoTW] 	20 dB	45 bps	2231z 03 Nov
> VE6AO	<us.gif> KE3BK	14093.7	RTTY CQ [LoTW] 	21 dB	45 bps	2227z 03 Nov
> VE6AO	<us.gif> KE3BK	14093.0	RTTY CQ [LoTW] 	21 dB	45 bps	2220z 03 Nov
> KS4XQ	<us.gif> KE3BK	14092.9	RTTY CQ [LoTW] 	13 dB	45 bps	2220z 03 Nov
> AC0C	<us.gif> KE3BK	14092.9	RTTY CQ [LoTW] 	22 dB	45 bps	2207z 03 Nov
> VE6AO	<us.gif> KE3BK	14093.2	RTTY CQ [LoTW] 	21 dB	45 bps	2207z 03 Nov
> WZ7I	<us.gif> KE3BK	14093.0	RTTY CQ [LoTW] 	14 dB	45 bps	2207z 03 Nov
>  
> 
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