Few years ago, while in YN - land, I received a request from a guy from PSK
Club.
He begged me to work him and other guys in PSK mode.
I showed respect to that PSK group and did work 24 Q's to give that group a
New One on PSK. Then I switched back to RTTY. It was during CQ WPX RTTY 2008
or 2009, not sure. Since that, I never worked PSK again...
The point is: I did work few contacts on PSK with some 5 or 10 watts - but
this is absolutely different environment. This is not a Contest Mode - this
is a chewing mode.
If there are CQ WW DX RTTY and WPX Contests - lets keep RTTY WAS awards!
When they create CQ WW DX PSK Contest - (if... I doubt it) - then WAS PSK
should be established.
Before that - WAS RTTY and DXCC RTTY should exist, as well as WAS PSK, DXCC
PSK and other "Digital" modes awards...
2011/8/3 Neal Campbell <abrohamneal@gmail.com>
> I think the RTTY Journal became the Digital Journal in 1994 if my memory
> is
> correct. Mainly because we were covering RTTY, Clover, Pactor II and later
> PSK. Hmmm.
> 73
> Neal
>
> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 8:08 PM, Kok Chen <chen@mac.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > On Aug 3, 2011, at 3:58 PM, Tom Osborne wrote:
> >
> > > Makes me wonder, when did 'digital' start??
> >
> >
> > The term "digital signal processing" came into common use probably a
> little
> > after 1970. Before that, we were just doing "signal processing," even
> when
> > we'd used numerical methods.
> >
> > > Don't think many of the RTTY countries I got back in the 60's and 70's
> > were on PSK, (or any other 'digital' mode).
> >
> > The relative rarity between RTTY and the other keyboard modes can be
> funny
> > at times. Before the mid 1980s, Peter TY1PS used to operate in even the
> > minor RTTY contests. Working TY1PS on RTTY was no harder than working
> HH1PK
> > (remember Patrick with his really, really short exchanges?).
> >
> > Sometime after that, Peter switched to using Pactor and TY became rarer
> and
> > rarer on RTTY until pretty much the TY5A DXpedition (which was done in
> > TY1PS's shack and car, from information printed on their QSL card :-).
> >
> > Skip to more recent times (2004), I still remember all the hand wringing
> on
> > this reflector when T33C waited more than 24 hours before appearing on
> RTTY.
> > They appeared first on PSK31, and that was how I got my first T33
> digital
> > mode contact. A day later, when they appeared on RTTY, I worked them for
> a
> > second digital mode contact. Had I not worked them on RTTY, that PSK31
> > contact could have been all important. My VP2M was also done on PSK31
> > first and RTTY later.
> >
> > 73
> > Chen, W7AY
> >
> >
> >
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