When the bands are open, you can work DX with QRP RTTY, though of course the S/N isn't as good as with CW. One field day I made about a dozen RTTY contacts in half an hour using FSK-D mode and 5 W. I had a long random wire up in a tree (probably 80' or so), plus a few radials.
Wayne N6KR On Jun 22, 2015, at 1:52 PM, Bill Frantz <[email protected]> wrote: > Last year during field day, I made 186 PSK contacts and 1 RTTY contact > running QRP. I tried for many more RTTY contacts, but in all but one case, > the other station could not hear me. The one exception was on 10 meters with > a station across San Francisco bay from our operation and probably line of > sight. He had difficulty coping my exchange. Since the PSK contacts included > stations in New England and Quebec, so I was getting out. > > Has anyone had success in QRP RTTY operation? Should I consider RTTY a mode > only suitable for higher power? > > 73 Bill AE6JV > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Bill Frantz |Security, like correctness, is| Periwinkle > (408)356-8506 |not an add-on feature. - Attr-| 16345 Englewood Ave > www.pwpconsult.com |ibuted to Andrew Tanenbaum | Los Gatos, CA 95032 > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
