[RTTY] Beating A Dead Horse

[Jay]

>Start a 160 meter RTTY contest and they will come. The newcomers will then 
operate 160 meters when there are no contests and the band will come back to 
life.

Your argument here is superceeded by your other argument.

 >[160] is an empty wasteland, mainly due to many hams becoming SK's 
and/or moving into assisted living facilities.

160 takes large antenna's which is why there is limited activity.  
Newcomers don't have large antennas.

The band simply isn't coming back to life. Its much like keyboard RTTY 
this is a thing of the past.  Now all activity that isn't DXing and 
Contesting is pretty much done on PSK31.

 >The propagation argument put forth as a reason to not have RTTY 
contests on160 meters does not hold water.

Its not now nor has ever been propagation but it is now and always will 
be a problem of demodulators.  This is the reason to form a separate 
contest, but it is also the reason not to add it to the existing 
contests that don't have it as John pointed out among others.

I like your point of during the week maybe this should be a Wednesday 
night contest.





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