[RTTY] RTTY to Digital DXCC

[Joe Subich, W4TV]

> What I never really never understood is why SSTV contacts count
> toward PHONE DXCC and not Digital DXCC.

Until recently SSTV was not digital - it was strictly analog!   Even
today, most SSTV signals are analog (continuously varying tone) not
digital (discrete frequencies representing specific hue, saturation
and intensity values or even encoding the information as data).  That
may be changing just as other video services have changed over the
years but SSTV "ain't there yet."

73,

    ... Joe, W4TV


On 7/20/2011 7:46 PM, Don Hill AA5AU wrote:
> This doesn't seem like a big deal to me and it's probably overdue anyway.  Call is progress if you will.
>
> I have a couple of entities credited to RTTY DXCC that I only confirmed on PSK31 and one on Pactor (former Southern Sudan I think).
>
> For years, the accepted names for DXCC Awards were named PHONE, CW and RTTY.  However, digital modes such ASCII, AMTOR, PACTOR, PSK,
> MFSK and a whole lot of others are accepted for RTTY DXCC.  Seems only normal to call it Digital DXCC.  My Honor Roll plaque says
> RTTY on it but it wouldn't matter if it said DIGITAL since not all contacts were confirmed on RTTY.
>
> We all know CW is a digital mode, but reality tells us that CW is just CW.  What I never really never understood is why SSTV
> contacts count toward PHONE DXCC and not Digital DXCC.
>
> 73, Don AA5AU
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