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

[Joe]

Compared to the 1970's now days all of the bands and modes are dead 
except during contests.

Joe WB9SBD

On 2/8/2020 9:13 PM, David Gilbert wrote:
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> 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.
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> 73,
> Dave   AB7E
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> 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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