[RTTY] Banned RTTY freq list

Scott Nichols snichols at mvosprey.com
Wed Feb 14 12:37:56 EST 2007


What digital mode is now laying claim to the area around 14.095 ?

I've given in, and stay away from 14.070-14.074 for the PSK'ers, no problem, and 14.100 for whatever beacon that is,no problem, but last weekend I was getting harrassed by some gawd-awful squawking sound when running on 14.095...This has happened more than once now on that frequency...A couple minutes of a noise that sounded like a goose in distress, then a minute of CW "QSY FREQ"...

Is that another banned frequency that we RTTY'ers are supposed to stay away from now too ?...

With the increasing popularity in RTTY contesting, I hate to think what things are going to be like in a few years during a major RTTY contest unless we all learn to get along...Twice the RTTY stations will be on the air with the same narrow bandwidth used now...

73, Scott VE1OP


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