[RTTY] RTTY and Emergency Communication

[sjolin]

Lee, I presume the reason that RTTY is rarely used for emergency 
communication is its lack of error correction. There are so many other 
digital modes available that have various levels of error correction built 
in.

It's my understanding that a high percentage of emergency communications in 
this country are handled by digital modes now, both by amateurs and by 
various governmental entities. Unfortunately, it seems much of this is 
handled using Pactor III with its proprietary hardware.

73 de Dave, N0IT

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lee Buller" <k0wa at swbell.net>
To: "RTTY Reflector" <rtty at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 10:14 AM
Subject: [RTTY] RTTY and Emergency Communication


I know that this reflector has a heavy contesting tilt, but during the 
recent ARRL RU, was started thinking of why RTTY is not used that much in 
Emergency Communication. Or maybe it is an I don't know about it.