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

[rjairam at gmail.com]

In fact most of the non contest, non- DXpedition RTTY contacts I made were
 JA and other Asia.

I actually worked Philippines and Korea as ATNOs on RTTY. ZD8I on PSK31
where he answered my CQ.

73
Ria
N2RJ

On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 8:55 AM ko7ss--- via CQ-Contest <
cq-contest at contesting.com> wrote:

> It seems to be a contest only mode and a great one it is!
>
> No CW skills required, it's been 13 years since hams in the US had to
> learn code, and the pool of 25+ wpm CW contesters
> will continue to decrease through attrition. CW contests are not growing
> in # of full time competitors. Go ahead tell me you
> put in the full 24 hours in last years CWSS and had fun on Sunday.
>
> RTTY contests are everyone works everyone for points, exchanges at 45 WPM
> can be short and fast, skimmer use is allowed
> and encouraged. N1MM+ has made the initial startup easy. The bands for
> contesting are huge-7040-7125 and 14080-14150
> and are packed band edge to band edge.Skimmers and bandmaps make fast S&P
> easy. It's all about making Q's and my
> bandmaps have lots of call to work when operating my time runs out!
>
> The alternative to CW / RTTY contests is phone contests......
>
> 73, Bill KO7SS in Arizona
>
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