ARRL RTTY Roundup

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Contest: ARRL RTTY Roundup

Date: Jan 06, 1800Z to Jan 07, 2400Z

Rules: https://www.arrl.org/rtty-roundup

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If I wasn’t self employed I’d be calling into work for this one! :rofl:

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RTTY practices :point_down:t3:

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Luckily we don’t have to use these for the RTTY Roundup.

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Saturday was my first look and operating anything RTTY. With some good training and operating tips, I was up and “Run”ning in 30 minutes.
What a blast this was. This was the first RTTY operation our club has had.
I had my and the clubs first RTTY QSO today during the RTTY Roundup. In all I made a lot of QSO’s on RTTY 20 meters. We had a RTTY experienced ham come into the W3XO radio room and help us set up the necessary software and configurations. After the other hams left, another more experienced ham showed up and I got one on one instructions, what a difference that made. That’s when I made the rest of the contacts. All QSO’s were in the name of W3XO. Great time learning a fun and fast moving mode. Im hoping to get a QSO total once the ADI file is pulled.
Give RTTY a try, it gets the blood pumping.

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Great, the RTTY mode is good. Too bad we only hear them in contests. There’s usually not much activity anymore. I searched for W3XO but couldn’t find it in my log. I made 1,300 qso’s and yesterday I was tired. It’s normal after a contest to be tired hehehe. I’m glad you enjoyed it. Any doubt or question you can ask me and I’ll be glad to help. :slightly_smiling_face:

Alfredo WP3C

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For it being my first go at RTTY, after I thought I had somewhat of an idea and had a 75-80% understanding of the sounds created by the back and forth messages to send responses and RR 73 QRZ. Once that happens it was “Run” trial time. What a blast. I’ll be searching for RTTY activity and RTTY parties or the such. I give the credit to KM4DR for teaching me what I needed to know to get started on RTTY.

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This is new and is organized by 2 friends of mine. Good to start practicing

https://radiosport.world/wrt.html

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That’s great. The station I worked RTTY at is in Kerrville, TX and 40 miles from my QTH. I’ll have to download N1MM and MMTTY and get it configured. I’m not a pc guy so I will get assistance from one of my ham buddies.

Can’t wait till I get this up and running at my shack.
Thanks for this great info.
Joe

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It is also in the roadmap to add MMTTY in WRL :wink:

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