[RTTY] Digital DXCC or ARRL Board of Directors, respectfully: have my strong disagreement

[David VE3VID]

Would it not be simpler to have a digital mode DXCC for those who wish to use all dig modes for their DXCC, and leave a category for RTTY DXCC since it is as you have said a historical mode?  This is one of the reasons I like RTTY above PSK. And FYI I am an ARRL member. I think all of the RTTY awards should be preserved as is.

David

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> From: keepwalking188 at yahoo.com
> To: iw1ayd at googlemail.com; rtty at contesting.com
> Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 17:47:35 -0500
> Subject: Re: [RTTY] Digital DXCC or ARRL Board of Directors,	respectfully: have my strong disagreement
> 
> I agree.  This is a mistake.  RTTY is a fundamental and historical mode.  CW, SSB, RTTY.  Dropping it in favor of a generic Digital 
> tag does not provide proper respect for a core mode.  I can see something (also traditional) like SSTV being logically called 
> Digital.   But this is a minor mode as is PSK and all the other digital variants.
> 
> RTTY because of it's fundamental place in radio history, strong use in modern times, and huge growth rate, deserves to remain a 
> separate category.  I can only believe that the league did not have an adequate understanding of the prevalence of RTTY when 
> considering their vote otherwise they would have left RTTY as a separate and distinct entity.
> 
> 73, Jeff ACØC
> www.ac0c.com
> 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: iw1ayd
> Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 5:32 PM
> To: rtty at contesting.com
> Subject: [RTTY] Digital DXCC or ARRL Board of Directors, respectfully: have my strong disagreement
> 
> Hi to all.
> 
> Just to read the doc abou and not my personal opinion go there:
> 
> http://www.arrl.org/files/file/About%20ARRL/Board%20Meetings/2011%20Second%20MeetingMinutes%281%29.pdf
> 
> ( Take care of the URL line fragmenting and about the dead space
> representation as %20 )
> 
> 
> Abstract from "Minutes of the 2011 Second Meeting - ARRL Board of
> Directors - July 15-16. 2011"
> 
> 29. On motion of Mr. Fenstermaker, seconded by Mr. Edgar, the following
> resolution was ADOPTED:
> WHEREAS the DX Advisory Committee (DXAC) was charged to investigate many
> aspects of the ARRL DX program; and
> WHEREAS Amateur Radio technology has advanced to include many variations
> of digital communication; and
> WHEREAS the DXAC has recommended changing the DXCC Award category from
> RTTY to Digital or RTTY/Digital or Digital Mixed; and
> WHEREAS the Programs & Services Committee (PSC) deliberated this change
> and, along with ARRL staff believe the best revised name for this award
> is Digital DXCC, and
> WHEREAS, the ARRL thanks the DXAC for its work on this name change;
> Therefore, it is RESOLVED that the ARRL Board accepts the recommendation
> of the PSC to change the title of the RTTY DXCC Award to the DIGITAL
> DXCC Award.
> 
> 
> What to say, there are no reasons nor facts by any means about the
> decision taken inside that document, as seen here in the abstract.
> The phrase " WHEREAS Amateur Radio technology has advanced to include
> many variations of digital communication ...", tells by itself all.
> Technology have changed a lot since the radio was only used for CW,
> sparking or funk (DL), in the meantime, since than and until quite now,
> there weren't changes in the radio technologies, accordingly to this
> 2011 sentence: unbelievable.
> 
> So, RTTY was RTTY, Phone was Phone and CW was CW. Now, 2011, the
> silliest and subtle discovery that whatever is not Phone or CW must be
> called Digital, like several appliances we have on hands or at home. So
> CW, a digital mode by default and by any mean, will remain unDigital as
> Phone, they couldn't could not be assimilated. RTTY, that by itself
> haven't any remarkable nor visible soul as Phone o CW, instead will be
> fully assimilated. Yes like the Star Trek saga, "Any resistance will be
> futile ...". In the movie that was a nice characterization, now it is
> only an awful envision at best.
> 
> Instead to clearly change anything, i.e. adding a Digital DXCC award -
> yes why not, now we are all assimilated as Digital Borg. Worst, leaving
> out more than half of the world that is already digital since than. The
> sacred soul of CW and its big weapons. Playing  between presence or
> absence of a single signal and coding signs accordingly mean enough
> digital to my, any(?), eyes and my ears, but I would not start a
> religious discussion there. All the old DEC self instruction tapes have
> already made this point strong enough in the NRZ signals chapter, almost
> 35 years ago (just the clock/timing recovering may seems to gets out of
> the picture ... fuzzy or not fuzzy). Well done, another foot in the
> grave and nobody know how many of those we have to spare.
> 
> Nemo propheta in patria.
> 
> 
>                                73 de iw1ayd Salvo
> 
> 
> 
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