[RTTY] SO2R vs. SO1R - a pertinent question

[Michael Keane K1MK]

At 11:32 PM 7/24/06, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote:
>I don't know that power levels are particularly defensible either
>but they have been  a "fact of life" for at least 40 years.

At least 40 years? Perhaps for some modes or in some contests.  But 
for CQWW RTTY as one example, a separate low power category was added in 1993.

That seems more like recent memory than a fact of life.

73,
Mike K1MK

Michael Keane K1MK
k1mk at alum.mit.edu