[RTTY] Interesting Survey

[k7wm]

You got that right. I got nervous that VP6 wouldn't come up on RTTY and
searched my ole junk boxes for my mike. After 18 years of RTTY, I had a hard
time finding it. After spending 3 days of listening to the ssb crowd, I
realized why I quit ssb in the first place.
Wayne k7wm@i10net.com
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> I would vote for no SSB. That's where most of the crap occurs!
> 73 Barry W2UP
>
> On 28 Mar 2002 at 18:00, Doug Faunt N6TQS +1-510-655-8 wrote:
>
> > Yep,
> > I have just seen a bit of that attitude here at XR0X.  The comment,
> > and sometimes result was that you can make more Q4s and therefore make
> > more people happy on CW and SSB.  I have some ideas abou this for
> > RTTY.  That is why I went from having unlimited time for RTTY to 6
> > hours (and unproductive ones at that) per day.
> >
> > I alos want to learn how to make more PSK QSOs faster and do that
> > within the next three weeks before KH1.
> >
> >
> > 73, doug
> >
> > XR0X 3000+ RTTY
> > 114 PSK31
> >
> >
> >    From: "Hill, Don" <dhill@cprk.com>
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> >    Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 16:42:01 -0600
> >
> >    While surfing the web looking for material for this week's
> >    VK2SG RTTY DX Notes, I came across the VK9ML site with information
> >    about their upcoming DXpedition to Mellish Reef.
> >
> >    http://www.qsl.net/vk9ml/2002/
> >
> >    In late December, the team put up a survey on the site to find
> >    out which digital mode they should operate, if any.  As I would
> >    have expected, RTTY won over PSK, 38% to 15%.   What about the
> >    other 47%?  They chose to have the team not do ANY digital mode
> >    and to concentrate on SSB and CW!  Wow...
> >
> >    I don't know if this survey was set up where someone could
> >    continuously vote for one option or not, but I must admit I'm
> >    astonished that anyone would vote to have a DXpedition NOT do
> >    digital.
> >
> >    Perhaps I'm just not with the program.  Perhaps there is a majority
> >    of CW/SSB ops that would rather a DXpedition not take time out
> >    for digital.  I don't know.  But I sure am curious.
> >
> >    Comments?
> >
> >    73, Don AA5AU
> >
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