[MRCG] RTTY net

[Tim]

The Clatternet also operated on 40 for awhile (7073 I recall).  I had good
40 meter RATT comms to WA/OR and there was a San Diego station that I
worked as well.  Worth experiments for sure.  During daylight hours 40
should work fine....

Propagation-wise to Riverside, I am essentially co-located with W6TOM,
WA6OPE and N6FEG - so 80 meters in the evenings should be similar to the AM
net on 3985..but RATT should provide a better SNR, all things
considered....I am running an Inverted L set up for local (0-200 miles)
NVIS and it works well.  We are 370 miles apart and that is getting into an
area needing a lower angle for that range.  It's just "db's"  LOL
I am pretty flexible time wise, with a little heads up.

As to hardware, I think the Clatternet was set up around "common" military
RATT parameters - and the PRC-47/CV-2455 provided that in stock
configuration.  Maybe not, It may have been an accommodation, but the
participating stations usually had at least one PRC-47 going and the more
flexible transmitters netted to them just fine.

Now to find a 28 Volt MITE terminal for base, mobile and camping Ops.  Dave
Ross often ran his PRC-47 with a CV-2455 and MITE terminal at MVCC Camp
Delta - it was quite the show.


On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 8:13 AM, Mark J. Blair <nf6x at nf6x.net> wrote:

>
> On Jul 28, 2014, at 07:02 , Steve <zarco at sonic.net> wrote:
> > Thanks for the clarification and sorry for the diversion. Congrats
> > on a successful test session. If you guys ever get on 40 I'll listen
> > in.
>
> No problem! It was another learning experience, as I hadn't looked at the
> Part 97 text regarding RTTY modes before.
>
> Do y'all think that 40 might be a better band for this net? 75 works well
> for the weekly AM net. I don't have much experience with 80, so I don't
> know if our experience last night is typical or we just had bad conditions,
> picked the wrong time, etc. It's also possible that Tim and I just don't
> have a good 80m path between us. I haven't worked Tim on the air much, so I
> don't know what the paths are like between our QTHs. I'll probably get a
> better feel once more of the usual AM net participants try checking in to
> the RTTY net.
>
> --
> Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
> http://www.nf6x.net/
>
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