At the risk of sounding a bit too critical, I believe some of the DXexpeditions are taking the Digital modes a bit too lightly. I have no issue with those who chose not to run Digital modes, or, as w
Bob, It is very easy to fall into the mindset of, "Gee, I didn't get what I needed out of that dxpedition" so it was a failure. That is anything but the truth. While stated goals are nice, things hap
A large-scale DXpedition may work between 25-30K unique callsigns. That same DXpedition may work between 2-3k unique RTTY callsigns. So the RTTY operators represent only 10% of the "consumers". One c
This number is correct. I worked 4500 QSO's last time from V44/NP3D/EW1AR in DXpedition style (not counting V49A during CQ WW SSB) and among them I did 460 some contacts on RTTY. To be exact, I proba
Another consideration is the "q-rate" is usually slower for most operators on rtty than on cw or ssb. This may discourage some dx operations from working digital until the contacts on ssb and cw have
Opps... Somewhere everyone is reading in a bit to much into this based on the title of this message (read the text) Yes RTTY is only a small portion of an DXexpedition Yes It is therefore a third lev
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY SEPARATOR -- Agreed. In fact I kind of like the rarity of RTTY as a DXPedition mode. It makes the QSO even more valuable when you do get it. Anyone off the street can make
Hi Bob and the group, I seem to think that the habit of promising RTTY (or some digital modes, as PSK should be lumped in here) is happening less and less these days. Many of the more major DXpeditio
Sorry to reply to such an ancient thread, but.... Sometimes Dxpeditions do things based on limitations or restrictions that aren't evident to outsiders. A couple of likely problems come to mind. Firs