[RTTY] first RTTY CONTEST

[7L4IOU]

Dear John

Thank you for the clear answer.

>Sweepstakes held in October 1961.
My anticipation was gone back abt 5 years. 

>The oldest contest still running is the BARTG HF RTTY which was first
I appreciate your contribution of long years. 

Thank you very much.

73 Hisami 7L4IOU

On Wed, 03 Aug 2005 19:15:36 +0100
John Barber <SKA at bartg.demon.co.uk>-san wrote:
>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
>
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