[RTTY] DXCC RTTY: Renaming RTTY RU & Rookie RU to Digital RU

Tue Aug 16 13:57:26 PDT 2011

Hi
I am totally agree, RTTY dxing and contesting will never be the same.

A bunch of RTTYers worldwide never got their chance to obtain the RTTY DXCC Award.

But seems PSK31 and other modes are more worth than RTTY QSOes.

I hope other socites can continue RTTY Award which not seems important for ARRL to their members or other users world wide.

 I would like to see excatly how many RTTY QSO in the LOTW and DXCC compared to this other digital joke modes 

From my HTC, LA6FJA

----- Reply message -----
Fra: "DickT-W0RAA" <dickt at w0raa.com>
Dato: tir., aug. 16, 2011 18:13
Emne: [RTTY] Renaming RTTY RU & Rookie RU to Digital RU
Til: <rtty at contesting.com>, <n3kn at arrl.org>, <n5zgt at arrl.org>, <wy7fd at arrl.org>, "Sean Kutzko \(KX9X\)" <kx9x at arrl.org>, <hq at arrl.org>

Now that the "leaders" at the League have made the decision that RTTY is now 
Digital, are they going to rename the ARRL Rookie Roundup RTTY to ARRL 
Rookie Roundup Digital and also the ARRL RTTY Roundup to ARRL Digital 
Roundup?

That will allow PSK31, MFSK, JT65, Hell, and other "digital" modes to 
participate and they should rightfully be recognized as legitimate modes in 
these contests, because the ARRL has made the decision that RTTY is no 
longer a legitimate mode of communications and they should not be awarding 
certificates for an illegitimate mode of communication since it's no longer 
worthy of a certificate.  How can they call them RTTY Contests when, by ARRL 
definition, they are Digital Contests?

Why is it so difficult to have the word RTTY printed on a Certificate?  If a 
station works all states (WAS) in RTTY mode, that station should see RTTY as 
the mode on the certificate, not Digital.  This is a bad decision and I hope 
our wonderful leaders in Newington will reconsider this ill thought out 
decision.

Dick
W0RAA

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