[MRCG] Sunday evening RATT net

[Robert B]

1% copy on 40 just Mark. S8 noise weak sig. Only Mark was 80% on 80 rx
only. I need to make my helical wound vert and see how that works.
On Jul 6, 2015 12:28 PM, "Jim Haynes" <jhhaynes at earthlink.net> wrote:

>
> Well do whatever works best for you guys, because I'm probably out of the
> picture until fall unless we find a time of day when both short and long
> propagation are good for everybody.
>
> I have a favorite old war story about RTTY, that I might as well repeat.
> It was when I was living in Felton (Santa Cruz area) and it was February
> 1996 and about 0500Z according to the QSL card. I was feeling nostalgic so
> I pulled down a volume of W6AEE's RTTY magazine and started reading some of
> the articles.  It was a discussion between Merrill W6AEE and Herb Hoover,
> Jr. W6ZH about Terminal Unit (demodulator) design.
>
> I decided to turn on the radio and see if anybody was on.  I was hearing a
> couple of 80M signals from Southern California just booming in, and
> listening for a while one of them said he was running 5 watts! Propagation
> to die for!  So I broke in to tell them how well I was copying them so far
> away and we chatted for a while and then one of them said,
> "Let's stand by for Pete"  Well "Pete" came on with the call sign W6ZH
> and turned out to be Herbert Hoover III who had been assigned his late
> father's call.  So I got to tell him I had just been reading from his
> late father's articles in RTTY and that was what motivated me to turn
> on the radio.
>