{"id":327,"date":"2018-01-11T00:53:13","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T08:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ad6dm.net\/log\/?p=327"},"modified":"2018-01-11T00:53:13","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T08:53:13","slug":"80m-rtty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ad6dm.net\/log\/2018\/01\/80m-rtty\/","title":{"rendered":"80m RTTY"},"content":{"rendered":"

I found a load of RTTY<\/a> on 80m band on Sunday night (1\/7\/2018). I tuned to 3580 kHz and found a particularly strong signal, so I hooked up my USB soundcard<\/a> to my laptop, fired up fldigi<\/a> and made attempts to reply, but I guess my QRP<\/a> setup didn’t get heard in all the pileup chatter.<\/p>\n

Turns out, January 6-7 was “ARRL RTTY Roundup<\/a>“, a nationwide contest to make contacts in the digital format, so it was easy to catch the conversations on almost all HF bands.<\/p>\n

I found the CQ<\/a>‘s in this format a bit odd, and didn’t really know how to format my responses or how to call CQ myself. I saw things like: TEST N6JJ N6JJ CQ (not real callsign), or CQ RU N6JK CQ.<\/p>\n

What?<\/p>\n

I went with the way I new how to call CQ, which was: CQ CQ DE AD6DM PSE K. (meaning: Calling any station from AD6DM please reply). No replies.<\/p>\n

There were a lot of transmissions like: W7KJ N6JK 599 5NN TU 73.<\/p>\n

I took these to mean an acknowledgement, a signal report, thank you, best regards.<\/p>\n

RTTY is a very quick format. It’s like a drive-by greeting that is over before you know it. It’s probably how hams did contest contact-gathering before the more modern semi-automated\u00a0FT8<\/a> format.<\/p>\n

In any case, I want to get out there on RTTY and give it more of a try.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I found a load of RTTY on 80m band on Sunday night (1\/7\/2018). I tuned to 3580 kHz and found a particularly strong signal, so I hooked up my USB soundcard to my laptop, fired up fldigi and made attempts to reply, but I guess my QRP setup didn’t get heard in all the pileup chatter. Turns out, January 6-7 was “ARRL RTTY Roundup“, a nationwide contest to make contacts in the digital format, so it was easy to catch the conversations on almost all HF bands. I found the CQ‘s in this format a bit odd, and didn’t really know how to format my responses or how to call… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,11,6],"tags":[25,15,27,23,24],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital","category-dx","category-ssb","tag-contact","tag-digital","tag-dx","tag-hf","tag-interstate"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9naFX-5h","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":684,"url":"https:\/\/ad6dm.net\/log\/2018\/12\/projects-2018\/","url_meta":{"origin":327,"position":0},"title":"Projects 2018","author":"AD6DM","date":"December 31, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"This past year was an eventful ham radio one. 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