[RTTY] Death of RTTY?

[Larry L Lindblom]

Amen, John!  Lets not see us become like the CW FOREVER crowd.  Either we
role with the times of get rolled over by them.  In other words lets try
the new modes and find out if we have something to gain by adapting them.

73 W0ETC

On Mon, 19 May 2003 17:23:52 -0500 "WA9ALS - John" <wa9als at starband.net>
writes:
> Well, once again, PSKers are predicting the death of RTTY.  Jim, 
> N2HOS, in
> his latest Gazette, stated "There is plenty of
> room for both [PSK63 and RTTY], but RTTY has already given up this 
> battle.
> Peace!"
> 
> I'd like to make a couple of points, and then maybe we can have some 
> healthy
> discussion on this topic:
> 
> 1.  PSK63 has some attributes that should be attractive to digital
> contesters - Fast (100 WPM) and narrow bandwidth to name a couple.  
> They
> also claim much better participation, judging from current PSK31 
> use.  Thus
> I think we need to evaluate it for its strengths and weaknesses and 
> not just
> stay with our heads in the sand saying "RTTY FOREVER [no matter 
> what]".
> 
> 2.  Veteran RTTY contesters need to evaluate PSK63 for another 
> reason - RTTY
> contesters have experience!  I would value the opinions and 
> experience of
> veteran RTTY contesters over that of novice PSK63 contesters.
> 
> Jim points out that there are "wall to wall" PSK signals when there 
> are no
> RTTY signals (unless there is a contest).  I could counter that yes, 
> there
> are lots of PSK signals, but there are also a lot of over-driven 
> signals
> endlessly sending macros back and forth to multiple stations at a 
> very slow
> rate (PSK31).  That's not a great criticism, however - Some AFSK 
> RTTY
> signals are overdriven too.
> 
> I'll stop here - I just wanted to put something out here and hope 
> for some
> discussion.  I'd like to see some knowlegeable and experienced RTTY
> contesters evaluate PSK63 so that we will have some feedback from 
> our own
> community.  Hopefully some of us will be able to participate in the 
> first
> PSK63 contest in September.  I suspect that, once again, RTTY will 
> come out
> on top.  I just hope that our guys will jump in and evaluate PSK63 
> and not
> let moss grow on our keyboards in the name of tradition.  Have faith 
> - RTTY
> is a tradition because it's passed the test of time and several new 
> modes.
> 
> As for "already given up this battle" - Jim, I respectifully think 
> not!  ;-)
> 
> 73 - John, WA9ALS
> 
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