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

[Jim Brown]

On 2/10/2020 12:39 PM, Jeff Blaine wrote:
> The limited success of RTTY on a dxpedition is not due to the mode 
> specifically.  Rahter it's because callers tend to work RTTY like they 
> do a CW pileup, but generally with even less skill.  On top of that the 
> RTTY control op on the dxpedition end rarely has the skill needed to get 
> solid rates

I mostly agree about the skills part, but I also think it's the mode. In 
my experience, RTTY is much harder to decode in a pileup than CW with 
the ears of a good op on the expedition and the skill of good op to time 
his/her call and figure out where to call.

73, Jim K9YC