Other than the A being a little high for my liking, I was content to just go out and have a good time. With the solar flux at 138, the A index at 12 and the K at 2, I was concerned that propagation would be flat, yet the numbers weren’t terribly bad. How would this year’s contest fare? The propagation numbers were not nearly as good as they were in past years. So as I watched the minutes, then seconds count down to the start of the contest, I was anxious with anticipation. It appeared that perhaps my efforts might pay off and stimulate participation in the Roundup. My WriteLog RTTY Website (now named ) took over 200 hits on Friday, January 3 rd, its most active day since September. It resulted in my AA5AU RTTY Page taking over 2000 hits in the first 3 days of January alone – just in time for the Roundup. In December I made yet another big effort to get more operators on RTTY. That month the tutorial took 559 hits and many new stations appeared in the contest. When it came to September and the CQ/RJ World Wide RTTY contest, I again made a big push, via the reflectors, to get more people on RTTY in hopes of having higher activity in the contest. It appeared a lot of operators were taking advantage of the opportunity to get on RTTY. In the week I announced the completion of the tutorial it took nearly 500 hits. I began working on the pages in late June and finished 10 days into July. I realized I would not be able to fulfill all these requests individually, so I decided to write a tutorial and place it on my website.
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In the first week, I received over 50 requests for help to get started on RTTY.
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I sent an E-mail to the DX reflector offering my services. When Ed, P5/4L4FN, started working exclusively RTTY, I decided to offer my nearly 20 years of RTTY experience to anyone that wanted help getting started on RTTY in hopes of working North Korea. I built up the RTTY page on my website and put more work into my WriteLog RTTY website as well.
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Last year I did my best to try to get more people interested in RTTY. So as I sat watching the clock on the PC’s monitor, waiting for 1800Z, I was wondering what this year would hold in store for hundreds of RTTY operators around the world including me. After years of increasing activity, last year’s RTTY Roundup declined somewhat. Later years we had operation from Montenegro YU6AO and also from Norway LN5O with ON4BPM/SQ5BPM & S53NW during Multi operations in CQ WPX RTTY.You never really know how a contest is going to turn out. SPØDXC in WPX RTTY Contest was major activity first years.įirst RTTY activity by founder was LI3OWG 1994 by LA5FHA Father and son LB3RE LB3RE (ex LA6FJA), ON4BPM/SQ5BPM in SP5ZCC during WPX RTTY. The Facebook site is managed by WK6I Jeff & LB3RE "RAG" Stein Roarįirst RTTY DXPedition was with S9LA 2002, and then first RTTY QSO from new DXCC Montenegro YU6AO 2004 by SQ9UM, SP5HNK, SQ5BPM, SQ5NBQ, LA6FJA RTTYops Facebook site been managed by WK6I, LB3RE + few more. The founders of RTTYops had several RTTY activities.įounded in 2004 to save & activate RTTY and engage RTTY activity in DX and Contesting
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RTTYops had a article in Japanese 59 Magazine by JARTS RTTY Manager 7L4IOU. The RTTYops facebooksite have over 1200 members since 2010, and founded by LB3RE (ex LA6FJA) and WK6I Jeffīiggest RTTY events last 25 years been mostly CQ RJ WW RTTY DX Contest and CQ WW WPX RTTY Contest, other famous RTTY contest been VK SG RTTY Contest, SCC RTTY, JARTS RTTY, SARTG WW, WAE RTTY, BARTG RTTY.Ī few DXpeditions still using/have used RTTY succesfully as over the years. RTTY OPS been founded 2004 by youngsters in WWYC -( World Wide Young Contesters), Its been used in both 45 and 75 baudrate among amateur radio operators passed 40 years. RTTY is a digital mode used for primary DXing, broadcasting news, newsletters DX, Chat and Contesting. All participants must observe IARU band plan.ĬQ SCRY / RTTYops WW RTTY DX Contest 2021
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Multi operator stations may operate for the full 36 hours.īands: 160, 80, 40, 20, 15, 10 m. Single Operator stations may operate for only 24 of these 36 hours – off times must be a minimum of 60 minutes during which no QSO can be logged. The second full weekend of December 11/12, 2021 from 06:00 UTC on Saturday till 18:00 UTC on Sunday Period 2: Sunday 28th Aug 1200 UTC to 2359 UTCĪ Worldwide contest with Scandinavian & Baltic as bonus!Īre you going to be QRV in TRC RTTY CONTEST? Period 1 : Friday 26th Aug 2200 UTC to Saturday 27th Aug 1200 UTC