WAE RTTY time!

Well,

I've been fiddling in the WAE RTTY test this weekend; only dabbling - nothing serious about my contesting.

Here's my log as a map:

I used the IC-7610 yesterday and the TS-890 today.

I run with Writelog and have the MMTTY and 2Tone decoders on screen, plus I have a monitor connected to the Rig and have my eyes on a third decoder provided by the radio.

Here is the IC7610 as I have it set up in RTTY mode.

And this is the Kenwood:

Sorry, Kenwood, but the spectrum scope is just useless when it is that small - I really don't like this about the TS-890. The Icom only displays the spectrum when in decode mode, but on the TS-890 you have the spectrum scope and the waterfall on screen - both too small to be of any real use.

They are both fantastic RTTY radios though, the filtering capabilities of both rigs is second to none.

It's a 4 hour sprint!

Well,

Last night was the BARTG 75 baud RTTY September sprint contest.

It's only a 4 hour test so even my boredom levels coped well with this one. 75 baud RTTY is quite odd really as I suspect I spend as much time thinking about what just happened as I save by the transmissions being faster. Net result is just more confusion on my part!

Anyhow, I have entered my meagre efforts into the contest, here's my log as a map:

Meanwhile, Chopsy has a new hidey hole:

And Pepper has found a transformer to perch on:

Fun, egh?

Look what I just found

Well,

Some of you may recall I had a dabble in the Mexico RTTY test early in 2013:

http://g0mgx.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/xe-test-ah-mexico.html

I just found this:

Good, egh?