[RTTY] RTTY TopList question

[Robert Chudek - K0RC]

Hello Jim,

My ideas on your questions:

1) This is a tough call. I'm a RTTY fan, but outside of contesting on the weekends, the bulk of the daily digital activity appears to be PSK31. Until a few nights ago I had not heard any AMTOR activity in a LONG time, and I don't know if anyone is using ASCII. If you used the ARRL definition for Digital contacts, I would have no objection.

2) Worked works for me. I'm not a QSL chaser although I upload all my logs to eQSL and LoTW.

3a) If it's a valid digital band I would have it on the list. No repeater contacts though. If you omit the WARC bands, getting 2000 band/entities will be next to impossible (5 bands X 325 entities = 1625 points). Even if you got 325 countries on 160m you wouldn't achieve 2000. Using 6m thru 160m (10 bands) you still need to average 200 countries per band. If you drop 6m and 160m, that brings your average per band to 250 countries. These are all tough challenges.

3b) Six meters will become popular again as the next solar cycle gains momentum. And there's all the new HF radios that include 6m so I expect activity levels to steadily increase.

That's my 2¢

73 de Bob - KØRC in MN


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Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 19:52:26 -0400
From: Jim Reisert AD1C <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>
Subject: Re: [RTTY] RTTY TopList question
To: RTTY at contesting.com
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Hi Gang,

I hope this list is interesting.  Some people have way too much free 
time on their hands (including me :-)

A few issues have been raised.  If you feel strongly enough about one 
of these issues, please let me know your opinion privately or via the 
reflector.

1.  Should all digital modes be allowed?  ARRL DXCC rules state, 
"Baudot, ASCII, AMTOR and packet count as RTTY."  If so, I'll have to 
figure out how to get the word out to the other digital reflectors 
(none of which I subscribe to).

2.  Should the totals include only confirmed entities, or worked entities?

3.  Should there be a sub-total that does NOT include the new bands 
(30/17/12m)?  What about 160m and/or 6m?

73 - Jim AD1C

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