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

[Don AA5AU]

Jay wrote: "but I guess its time for a
SO3R discussion or something to fill the reflector up again."
 
Barring a lightning strike or major hurricane, I'll be going back to SO3R for CQWW RTTY in September.  I'll write about it in the Jan/Feb issue of NCJ.  I'm thinking about running low tones on the 3rd radio and piping the audio into the left ear along with audio from the "normal left radio" from the original SO2R arrangement.  This way I can better differentiate the different audio signals from the two radios in one ear.  I'll probably keep the 3rd radio on ten meters and will probably only use it for S&P with an 80 meter inverted vee as the antenna.  At night I may put it on 80 meters if 20 is open late into the night or all night.  It's not much but it's a start.
 
Wonder if anyone is running low tones on FSK and if so, are there any issues to contend with?  I'll be running a Kenwood TS870 as the 3rd radio so I won't have a TPF (TPF in my PRO III only works with high tones I believe).
 
73, Don AA5AU

From: WS7I <ws7ik7tj at gmail.com>
>To: dezrat1242 at yahoo.com
>Cc: rtty at contesting.com
>Sent: Thursday, August 4, 2011 8:51 AM
>Subject: Re: [RTTY] Digital DXCC or ARRL Board of Directors, respectfully: have my strong disagreement
>
>There have never been in the ARRL DXCC special certificates for the three
>general awards, Phone, CW, and now Digital.  You can't get a SSB award nor a
>AM award.  There aren't the resources for having multiple Honor Rolls.  Heck
>its so bad now that the 2010 book is just now coming out.
>
>DXCC is a money loosing proposition for the ARRL and in fact most ARRL
>members don't even chase DX nor contest.
>
>So yes a DXCC on AM would be as special as one on PSK31, but neither are now
>available. Seems a lot of fuss about nothing, but I guess its time for a
>SO3R discussion or something to fill the reflector up again.
>
>On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Bill, W6WRT <dezrat1242 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
>>
>> On Wed, 3 Aug 2011 14:56:01 -0400, Al Kozakiewicz <akozak at hourglass.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >To be deliberately provacative, there is zero degree of difference in
>> >skill required to operate any of the asynchronous serial modes.
>>
>> REPLY:
>>
>> Yes and no. Top of the Honor Roll is doable on RTTY, on other digital modes
>> it
>> would be far more difficult. If someone has the persistence and dedication
>> to
>> achieve it with PSK or MFSK or something else, shouldn't they be able to
>> receive
>> a certificate that says so?
>>
>> If you take away the goal of that special certificate, you diminish the
>> interest
>> and activity of those who wish to pursue it. Is that good for Amateur
>> Radio?
>>
>> 73, Bill W6WRT
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