[RTTY] 75 Baud

[James Colville]

I couldn't agree more Vlad!  And very well articulated!

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*Keep RTTY 45 baud!*


When the noise came in about the* opportunity *for Field Day, It simply went
into the trash.

73
Jim W7RY


On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Vladimir Sidorov <vs_otw at rogers.com> wrote:

> Gents,
>
> Please be more careful with what we already have by now, i.e the 45 Baud
> RTTY. This mode is very well established and popular. Moreover, it sits
> firmly in some radios' hardware. Now that there are more and more talks
> about the magic 75 Baud one, we have already seen a semi-DX-pedition
> declaring 75 Baud RTTY "to work them all faster", then a new full-size 75
> Baud Sprint and finally a recent invitation to play 75 Baud in the Field
> Day. What's next? It might be another message which we have already seen
> here in the list, like if the RTTY (OK, the 75 Baud one) performance is
> like
> this, then "why bother"? And back to FD, I just recall somebody's report of
> RTTY introduction to newbies during the FD using a Pro3 without a PC. Now
> if
> the Pro3 cannot catch RTTY by its own built-in RTTY decoder, then again,
> why
> bother? The newbies may simply turn into bye-byes.
> I for one bought a Pro3 to have an instant RTTY machine to catch RTTY DX
> quickest possible, without spending time for PC boot, etc. It the 75 Baud
> development is pushed so hard, the Pro3 will turn just into a dust
> collector.
>
> As for the 45 Baud RTTY in contesting, its slower speed just brings up
> another great operator's challenge, how to handle both the slow speed and
> the extensive pile-up in the same time...
>
> Experiments with 75 Baud are fine, but not for an account of the mainstream
> 45 Baud RTTY, please.
>
> Sorry, just could not resist.
>
> 73,
> Vladimir VE3IAE
>
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