[ILQSO] N9JF short comments

[KI9A at aol.com]

Easy, most hams are not extra class.  You  need to be were most of the 
population is to maximize QSO's..

In a  message dated 10/21/2008 9:36:21 P.M. Central Daylight Time, 
hgreeb at one.net  writes:
What's wrong with 7010 thru 7025 KHz?  

-------- Original  Message -------- Subject: Re: [ILQSO] N9JF short comments
Date: Tue, 21 Oct  2008 22:16:58 EDT
From: KI9A at aol.com
Reply-To: Illinois QSO Party  <ilqso at mailman.qth.net>
To: ilqso at mailman.qth.net



Well,  there is no reason I should be hearing RTTY all the way down to 7025.  
I  stay away from the top end of the band, all of the time, they should stay 
away  from the bottom.  I had 6 different stations fire up RTTY right on me, 
in  the middle of a run. I made notes of the calls ( a neat thing the ICOM PRO 
3  does, decodes rtty on screen!), and will keep these calls in mind during 
CQWW.  They won't get a Q from me.

73- Chuck KI9A

In a message dated  10/21/2008 9:13:11 P.M. Central Daylight Time, 
n8xx at arrl.org writes:
I don't  remember anytime, when RTTY drove me away from any band, 40 
metres  included.  Perhaps people who don't have receivers are bothered 
by the  stuff, but typically I've been able to find holes between RTTY 
garbage where  CW fits in very nicely.

And, my receiver uses 30 year olde technology, so  folks with state of 
the art receivers shouldn't have any problemme  atall.

The CW folks get fewer and farther between during a RTTY contest,  but 
they still exist.

73 de n8xx Hg

John Geiger wrote:
>  --- On Tue, 10/21/08, James Funk <jfunk at fossnorthamerica.com>  wrote:
>
>   
>> Other notes:
>> 1)  Forty was useless from 2300Z to 0000Z due to RTTY. After
>> that  contest
>> was over, nobody came back to  40????
>>     
>
>
>  Jim,
>
> You have hit upon one of my pet peeves here.  Recently  there seems to be 
an endless RTTY contest going on that tears up 40 CW (and  other bands to a 
lesser extent) every weekend.  Now I have done some RTTY  contesting before, but 
every weekend????  I can see things like the CQWW  RTTY and WPX RTTY contests 
wreaking havoc, but every weekend??? For things like  the Upper Outer Mongolia 
RTTY contest?  Has RTTY contesting really taken  over?
>
> 73s John AA5JG  

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