[CQ-Contest] Is RTTY Only a Contest Mode?

[rjairam at gmail.com]

(I'm describing a world before FT8, so don't go saying that FT8 killed
the RTTY star, as that just isn't true.)

Only other places I've really worked RTTY was when working DXpeditions.

Outside of DXpeditions I've worked a few on PSK31 and Olivia.

73
Ria, N2RJ


On Sat, 8 Feb 2020 at 21:37, N4ZR <n4zr at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> I run an RBN node near Baltimore, MD spotting both CW and RTTY 160-12M.
> During any normal weekend day, I'll spot maybe 1 RTTY station an hour.
> A big contest goes on the air (like this weekend) , and suddenly I'm
> spotting 300-400 RTTY signals per hour.  I guess my question is, where
> do they go the rest of the time?
>
> --
> 73, Pete N4ZR
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