[RTTY] High-speed RTTY

[k0bx at arrl.net]

Thank you Bill for a trip down memory lane.  During the late 70 & 80's we had a high-speed 100 wpm net on 2 meters here in St. Louis.  It was a lot of fun but no one could type that fast.  We evern had a ASCII net for awhile but soon everyone moved back to 45 baud as it was just easier.

On HF, it is fine to have some other speeds when signals are good and you are ragchewing.  But in RTTY contests, at the higher speeds you just loose too much copy if you get a QRM/QRN hit.  

45 baud seems to just sing along like CW, even the weakest signal can be copy, maybe not 100 percent, but enough to make the contact.

I am not against the higher speeds, but it is hard enough getting people to get their shift right-side-up let alone figure out how to change the default speed.  

Joe K0BX


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--- On Thu, 9/11/08, Bill, W6WRT <dezrat1242 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Bill, W6WRT <dezrat1242 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [RTTY] Ahh, the sound!!
> To: "'RTTY'" <rtty at contesting.com>
> Date: Thursday, September 11, 2008, 4:26 PM
> Several years ago a few of us RTTY nuts organized a
> high-speed RTTY
> contest just to see what would happen. The general
> consensus was that
> with multipath and flutter, the data losses were higher and
> more
> repeats were needed, pretty much nullifying the advantage
> of higher
> speed. We ran the contest a couple of years and then
> interest faded. 
> 
> 73, Bill W6WRT
> 
> 
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> 
> 
> On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:35:29 +0000 (GMT), Roger Cooke
> <g3ldi at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> >Also, why do we still stick to 45 Bauds? Why not try 75
> Bauds for a change. I have had a few Q's at that speed
> but nobody has suggested changing  up to 75 as a modern
> standard, quite easy in MMTTY.
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