Dear Rus
Thank you for imposing time.
>The first World RTTY Championship, which combined the results of the BARTG,
>DARC, CARTG, VOLTA and Giant RTTY Flash Contests, took place in 1969.
It is interesting information.
I was impressed.
Since this is the culture of a community,
that enjoyed one contest repeatedly. :-)
73 Hisami 7L4IOU
On Wed, 3 Aug 2005 14:41:35 EDT
Russmill47@aol.com-san wrote:
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>Hisami,
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>I looked in my earliest copies of RTTY Journal to see if I could find the
>answer to your interesting question.
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>The September 1967 RTTY Journal talks about the 7th World Wide RTTY
>Sweepstakes sponsored by CARTG, the Canadian Amateur Radio Teletype Group.
>
>There is mention of the Annual BARTG Contest in February 1968 RTTY Journal
>and John GW4SKA just confirmed that it started in 1965.
>
>RTTY Journal, from November 1967, describes the 3rd Annual Volta RTTY DX
>Contest.
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>The April 1969 RTTY Journal details the first RTTY WAE Contest, sponsored
>by
>DARC.
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>In 1969, CQ Electronics Magazine of Italy sponsored a Giant RTTY Flash
>Contest.
>
>The first World RTTY Championship, which combined the results of the BARTG,
>DARC, CARTG, VOLTA and Giant RTTY Flash Contests, took place in 1969.
>
>So, CARTG was the first. BARTG is the longest running RTTY Contest.
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>Back in 1967, Jean FG7XT, was tops on the RTTY DX Honor Roll with 75
>countries worked and 61 countries confirmed. ON4BX, I1KG, W3KV, and W4AIS
> were the
>other top stations.
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>ON4BX was the first station to win RTTY DXCC, issued by RTTY Journal, not
>ARRL in 1971.
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>That's today's tour of RTTY Memory Lane.
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>73,
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>Russ WA3FRP
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