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

David Gilbert xdavid at cis-broadband.com
Sat Feb 8 22:13:32 EST 2020



Percentage wise, is it really that much different than for CW? Outside 
of a major contest things seem comparatively dead to me on CW as well.

73,
Dave   AB7E



On 2/8/2020 6:53 PM, N4ZR 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?
>



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