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

[Salvatore Irato]

TU Jim, W7RY.
I will wait for any response from there with real interests. The move
to point him here is also very well done.

I have tried, just when the notice hit here the first time, to wrote
at the DXCC Board, but no response. It does mean nothing, mail bounces
on far away servers doesn't always get notified to the sender address.
Nonetheless I was looking for the official statements about the matter
 and just yesterday at my local dawn I found it. I was and I am
astonished reading it.
Now yours mail leave me with a greater sense of attention and patience
for a response coming from the source of the subject matter.

I have no doubt that out there are more heavy and  conscious arguments
about that happening. But also as Jeff, AC0C, commented in a like way
we are facing something that is crunching the wrong part of the HAM
history and the related technologies changes, I personally add.

BTW Jim are you pondering that yours call would need to change
accordingly? W7RY may become W7DG, just a joke HI. Same for all of us
with RY in the call sign anyway operated, i.e. IQ1RY also would become
IQ1DG. I know a fellow here that is ready for the change his call is
IW1DGK, Marco. DG for DiGital is already in place, and now he would be
IW1DiGitalKeying more in the flow. He was ready. From my side I could
stay, as usual, with IW1AlwaysYankingData, sigh!

          73 de iw1ayd Salvo

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On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 6:40 AM, Jim W7RY <jimw7ry at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have emailed Jim Fenstermaker, K9JF to find out his justification of this.
> I happen to live in the Northwestern Division so he represents me.  We shall
> see his response.
>
> I also pointed him to the RTTY reflector so he could see the "crap storm" he
> has created.
>
> 73
> Jim W7RY
>
>
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> From: "iw1ayd" <iw1ayd at googlemail.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 3:32 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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