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

[Andrei Stchislenok]

I would leave RTTY as it is and grouped all others digital modes into
"DIGITAL".

WE have here: (and will die with them):

CW,

PHONE,

RTTY,

DIGITAL.

2011/8/2 Kok Chen <chen at mac.com>

>
> On Aug 2, 2011, at 5:07 PM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote:
>
> > Remember, "Phone" includes AM,
> > SSB. FM, SSTV, DV and FSTV.
>
> Precisely.
>
> "Phone" appears to be the euphemism for all modes that encode non-textual
> information (speech, pictures, etc).
>
> "CW" is distinct from "Phone" because it represents textual information,
> but is meant for non-textual (usually aural) decoding.
>
> The remaining group (what W9OL very correctly pointed out as "not CW nor
> Phone") are the "digital modes," which also encodes textual information and
> but unlike "CW," they are decoded by machine back into textual information.
>
> You can call this last group anything you like.  But to call it "RTTY" is
> plain wrong, since most of the "not CW nor Phone" transmissions today are
> not even made in RTTY any more.
>
> 73
> Chen, W7AY
>
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