[Ham-Mac] FW: JARTS-WW-RTTY 2005 AA5VU

[Steve Hellyer]

Hi Dick:

I had a ball on the JARTS. My first real time trying RTTY contacts.   
I wasn't actually in the contest to submit but used it more as a  
platform to learn RTTY. I made some firsts for me but I am pretty new  
to HF. My First RTTY contact, First time contact in several counties  
like CUBA, SLOVENIA, Morocco even UK Base Cyprus. And First contact  
for me on 10 Meters.  I am not planning on submitting my logs but I  
learned lots and perhaps I will in the future. I find contests are a  
great place to learn and explore HF abilities.

I had one interesting experience I can't seem to figure out.  I think  
it has to do with 40 Meter and use of upper side band or lower side  
band.
Anyway what would happen is I would have a fellow all tuned in on  
RTTY on 40 meters but when I contacted him he would change freq on me  
to answer
I gather he was on USB and I was on LSB?

Any thought or tips on this?  Is there a different rule for RTTY for  
USB/LSB use?
Another question if he moved to reply to me how did he hear me in the  
first place? (Hummm...?)

I am using iMac G5, CocoaModem and MacLoggerDX which worked great me  
and I didn't even use all the extra features these have for contesting.

Cheers & 73

Steve - VA3SPH

BTW.. Average age for my small sample of about 40 contacts was 55.   
Range was 73 to 26.


On 17-Oct-05, at 11:02 AM, Dick Kriss, AA5VU wrote:

> I don't recall seeing any of the ham-mac callsigns in the JARTS-WW- 
> RTTY
> contest.  The following is a copy of my note posted to the rtty- 
> contesting
> reflector regarding the contest.  Note the commentary at the bottom
> regarding the contest exchange of signal report and age.
>
> 73, Dick AA5VU