[GreenKeys] RTTY Roundup - musings

[Steve Garrison]

I have to agree totally with Nick’s assessment!  I tried unsuccessfully this morning to make some QSOs, but was never successful in getting anyone to come back to me.  They just moved on and left me in their dust!

 

I’m going to save my energies for contacting only those with real heavy metal or those with glass TTYs that want to take the time to have a real QSO and won’t mind throwing in a CR, CR, LF, LTRS ever 68 or so characters.

 

It’s not much fun watching these glass butterflies flitting across the airways.  I wonder if there was a way to get them to add a G to the RTTY phrase?  Like RGTTY so it connotates the glass TTY, because it’s not really RTTY unless there is something mechanical on input/output of the connection.

 

Steve G./N4TTY

 

From: greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net <greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net> On Behalf Of Nick England
Sent: Saturday, January 5, 2019 4:54 PM
To: Greenkeys <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: [GreenKeys] RTTY Roundup - musings

 

Well, my hat is definitely off to Russ and any other Heavy Metal guys who participate in a contest like this.

I am listening but the exchanges are so short and quick that it is hard to imagine anything other than a fully integrated SDR/computer system being able to make a contact, much less competing. If these aren't just pieces of AI software talking to each other, there must be some fanatical ops hitting no more than one key per exchange. I would say mouse click, but I don't think you could move a mouse fast enough....

 

I am not able to even tune my receiver and TU unless some station is making a long string of contacts and I have a series of 1-second bursts to try to tune it in.

And I never ever hear the guy he is replying to.

Hey, I finally found a guy issuing a CR and a LF......Hooray!

 

I'll just tune around and read the mail - it is interesting to see where the stations are located. But I'll need a whole lot more RTTY experience before even thinking about turning on a transmitter during times like these.

 

Have fun, folks, and more power to ya'

Nick K4NYW
www.navy-radio.com <http://www.navy-radio.com> 

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