Well I do know the history of the RTTY Roundup :-) It was an ARRL
Contest created by myself and Hal K7iRA (Ex-WA7EGA) and put forth into
the ARRL by then Northwest Division Director Rush Drake W7RM - sk. He
along with two other directors pressed forward and got it started.
So there you have it. It is the ARRL contest always has been and
hopefully always will be.
It unlike CQ/DJ WW and WW WPX were RTTY contests that were started
outside the normal contest group and later included . These are now
known as CQ WW RTTY and CQ WW WPX where in the past they had different
names and indeed origins. There is somewhere in the archives of this
list a lot of things with K1RY on this as well as Dale Sinner, W6IWO.
In fact the RTTY Roundup which I did the results on for the previous 12
years is very likely to be the only contest any longer published in a
magazine with worldwide distribution.
This is not a good idea. It is a complete over reaction to a petition
for Rule Making of which there are many over the years and of which I
also am not in complete agreement. But throwing away one of the
premiere RTTY contests is surely not much of an answer.
I reflect back to the First RTTY SweepStakes which was held October 31st
and November 1, 1953. This later became known as the CARTG (Canadian
Amateur Radio Teletype Group) which ran for 26 years until 1986 which is
when I started RTTY contesting. CARTG then closed and the longest
running RTTY contest went away along with a fine group which was very
significant in RTTY for a long time.
That is where the point chart originated FWIW.
If anyone wants to read about all of these old historical things then
you can buy the CD's from Wayne K7WM who is good at our
http://www.ewarg.org site. There is a link on the page to Wayne. These
are the only authorized _RTTY JOURNAL _copies which some might find
interesting.
Much like the _RTTY JOURNAL, _the Dayton RTTY hotel, hospitality suite,
the Dayton RTTY DX& Contest dinner on Friday and the RTTY Dinner on
Saturday, loosing things is much easier to do that ever getting them
going again. But thanks to the fine efforts we are again having a RTTY
Dinner at Dayton. Can a RTTY hotel be far behind?
Jay WS7I
ws7ik7tj at gmail.com
On 4/19/2014 7:11 AM, RTTY via RTTY wrote:
I propose that we have a discussion about moving the RTTY RU contest out of
the control of the ARRL. I do not know the history of the RTTY RU contest
but I know it was co-founded by Jay, WS7I and was not a ARRL contest.
Given the fact that the ARRL is throwing traditional narrow band waveforms
like RTTY "under the bus" then the ARRL should probably lose the privilege
of administering the RTTY RU contest. Thoughts?
Terry AB5K
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