[RTTY] P5/4L4FN and approval for RTTY QSOs

[Patrick STODDARD]

Hi!

Why only SSB?  According to the following items a while
back (posted on the web site of P5/4L4FN's QSL manager
KK5DO and the ARRL web site, respectively):

http://www.amsatnet.com/p5arrl.html
http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2002/04/02/1/

it appears that the North Korean authorities wrote his
initial authorization to cover just SSB (the mode he
started with initially), and other reports say that
written authorization for RTTY and other modes would
follow the verbal authorization he's using right now -
eventually.  Dealing with government entities can take
lots of time, and *especially* in that country
(P5/4L4FN started on the air in early November 2001, and
ARRL released this announcement on 2 April 2002).

He's still on the air, operating with more equipment in
Pyongyang, so I suppose patience is the word when it
comes to having non-SSB QSOs count for DXCC.  Ed is
someplace with no formal amateur-radio licensing
structure, permitted to bring more equipment into that
country, and hasn't apparently been met by the P5 army
like YT1AD's group was on their recent trip before they
could make any QSOs.



73!  Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK

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