[RTTY] TARA RTTY Melee - Dec 6

[Joe Subich, W4TV]

For any contest sponsor to promote activity that includes 
160 meters on the weekend of the ARRL 160 meter contest is 
the height of hubris and the very definition of "un-amateurly." 

The ARRL 160 meter contest has been a fixture for more than 
30 years.  Promoting RTTY activity on 160 that weekend, no 
matter how few participants actually use 160 meters is simply 
encouraging intentional interference and inciting a "range 
war."  

I regularly defend RTTY access to 7030-7060 KHz over state 
QSO parties and QRP operating events during most international 
RTTY contests.  For anyone to promote RTTY activity during one 
of two major 160 meter CW contests is 100% completely wrong 
and makes a complete mockery of the arguments made in support 
of RTTY in other venues.  TARA has marked RTTY as a mode like 
SSTV that doesn't care about finding common ground with other 
users of the band and certainly decreases the chance that RTTY 
and RTTY operators will be treated fairly by non-RTTY contesters 
on other bands.

I would strongly urge TARA to remove 160 from their event 
as long as it is scheduled the same weekend as the ARRL 
160 Meter contest. 

73, 

   ... Joe, W4TV 
 
  
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rtty-bounces at contesting.com 
> [mailto:rtty-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of MRBILL1953 at aol.com
> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 1:22 PM
> To: floyd at k8ac.net; rtty at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [RTTY] TARA RTTY Melee - Dec 6
> 
> 
> Hello Floyd:
>  
> Thanks very much for your input on the matter of RTTY on 160 
> during the  TARA 
> Melee. As I explained to Shelby, K4WW last evening that decision was  
> actually made back in August of 2006. I know the way I stated 
> it one would come  away 
> thinking that it was "NEW" for 2008 but that is not the case. 
> The amount of  
> folks that have actually tried 160 RTTY for our contest is 
> really so little 
> that  I do not see it really bothering anyone. I think if all 
> of us work  
> "respectfully" together we can peacefully share the 160 band. 
>  
> Again, I thank you and everyone from this news group for 
> sharing your  
> thoughts with us. 
>  
> Happy Thanksgiving!!
> Bill - NY2U 
>  
>  
> In a message dated 11/24/2008 12:26:33 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
> floyd at k8ac.net writes:
> 
> Forgive  me for asking, but have you considered the fact that 
> Dec 5-7 is the 
> ARRL  160 meter contest and that the band will be full of CW 
> contesters?  You 
>  
> might want to reconsider adding 160 to your contest.
> 
> 73, K8AC  
> 
> 
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