[RTTY] first RTTY CONTEST

Wed Aug 3 14:19:09 EDT 2005

Hisami

It seems to me the earliest and baggiest contest I ever entered was getting
the darn printer to print anything readable!

Byron, W3WKR
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "7L4IOU" <ncb02761 at nifty.com>
To: <rtty at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 12:59 PM
Subject: [RTTY] first RTTY CONTEST

> Hi All
>
> I have an question.
> What is the first RTTY CONTEST?
>
> VOLTA said the 2005 is 39th time.
> http://www.contestvolta.com/rules2.htm
> That is, probably, 1966 are the beginning.
>
> Key word of RTTY was discovered in P.14
> of "Historic Results 1967" of DARC.
> http://www.darc.de/referate/dx/archives/waedc1967.pdf
> These pages are really wonderful!
>
> What is the first RTTY CONTEST?
> Is that BARTG? SARTG? ANARTS? RCJ?
>
> 73 Hisami 7L4IOU
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