[RTTY] Are digital modes a DXexpedition afterthought?

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

At 01:54 PM 7/18/2006, KB1JZU wrote:

>At the risk of sounding a bit too critical, I believe some of the 
>DXexpeditions are taking the Digital modes
>a bit too lightly.

A large-scale DXpedition may work between 25-30K unique callsigns.

That same DXpedition may work between 2-3k unique RTTY callsigns.

So the RTTY operators represent only 10% of the "consumers".  One can 
see where this leads.

73 - Jim AD1C


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