[RTTY] first RTTY CONTEST

[John Barber]

The first international RTTY contest was probably the World Wide RTTY
Sweepstakes held in October 1961.

The oldest contest still running is the BARTG HF RTTY which was first
run on March 20th-22nd 1965, followed by the Volta on May 22nd-24th of
the same year.

That first Volta contest was won by I1AHN who made 129 QSOs in 42 hours
of operation ... how times change!

John Barber GW4SKA
BARTG Contest Manager