[GreenKeys] RTTY QSO

[William Wuttke]

Hi Nick,

I copied you a little that day, but not W6MEM. I’m usually around every day. 20 meters has been hit-or-miss during the day. 40 meters opens up at night here,
but it might be a little late for you. I can’t get up early enough on Saturday to listen for your signals. However, I have recently set up a kiwiSDR that you can
test with (20 & 40 m OK - 80 m high noise level). I’m on the kiwiSDR list and map. I frequently send remote kiwiSDR/WebSDR audio to one of my TUs
(or MMTTY or fldigi) to see how I’m propagating - usually to the HAL CWR-6850.

73,
BIll
KE3BK

> On Dec 22, 2020, at 6:32 PM, Nick England <navy.radio at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Well, name a time and freq and we can just start hanging out and giving it a try. 
> We regularly get people from MI to FL on our 40m 850 shift RATT net.  
> 
> A couple of weeks ago I had a very nice long solid QSO on 20m with Gary WA6MEM in Palos Verdes. It was Saturday around 1800-2000Z when we were both hanging around to see if the USS Iowa gang would come on. So I now know for sure that NC to LA is possible (and that my 60 year old Navy gear will hold up to rag chewing). 
> 
> This evening I set a short distance record. I’ve been resurrecting a T-827J/URT exciter and once I got it working I tested 40m RTTY transmission from one side of the room to the other. Solid QBF copy at 500mw into a 50 ohm resistor. 
> 
> Radio really is magic. Especially with mechanical marvels like teletypes in the loop. 
> 
> Cheers
> Nick K4NYW