[RTTY] Proposal to move RTTY RU from ARRL

[RTTY via RTTY]

Well I do know the history of the RTTY Roundup :-)  It was an ARRL 
Contest created by myself and Hal K7iRA (Ex-WA7EGA) and put forth into 
the ARRL by then Northwest Division Director Rush Drake W7RM - sk.  He 
along with two other directors pressed forward and got it started.

So there you have it.  It is the ARRL contest always has been and 
hopefully always will be.

It unlike CQ/DJ WW and WW WPX were RTTY contests that were started 
outside the normal contest group and later included .  These are now 
known as CQ WW RTTY and CQ WW WPX where in the past they had different 
names and indeed origins.  There is somewhere in the archives of this 
list a lot of things with K1RY on this as well as Dale Sinner, W6IWO.

In fact the RTTY Roundup which I did the results on for the previous 12 
years is very likely to be the only contest any longer published in a 
magazine with worldwide distribution.

This is not a good idea.  It is a complete over reaction to a petition 
for Rule Making of which there are many over the years and of which I 
also am not in complete agreement.  But throwing away one of the 
premiere RTTY contests is surely not much of an answer.

I reflect back to the First RTTY SweepStakes which was held October 31st 
and November 1, 1953.  This later became known as the CARTG (Canadian 
Amateur Radio Teletype Group) which ran for 26 years until 1986 which is 
when I started RTTY contesting.  CARTG then closed and the longest 
running RTTY contest went away along with a fine group which was very 
significant in  RTTY for a long time.

That is where the point chart originated FWIW.

If anyone wants to read about all of these old historical things then 
you can buy the CD's from Wayne K7WM who is good at our 
http://www.ewarg.org site.  There is a link on the page to Wayne. These 
are the only authorized _RTTY JOURNAL _copies which some might find 
interesting.

Much like the _RTTY JOURNAL, _the Dayton RTTY hotel, hospitality suite, 
the Dayton RTTY DX& Contest dinner on Friday and the RTTY Dinner on 
Saturday, loosing things is much easier to do that ever getting them 
going again.  But thanks to the fine efforts we are again having a RTTY 
Dinner at Dayton.  Can a RTTY hotel be far behind?

Jay WS7I
ws7ik7tj at gmail.com



On 4/19/2014 7:11 AM, RTTY via RTTY wrote:
> I propose that we have a discussion about moving the RTTY RU contest out of
> the control of the ARRL.    I do not know the history of the RTTY RU contest
> but I know it was co-founded by Jay, WS7I and was not a ARRL contest.
> Given the fact that the  ARRL is throwing traditional narrow band waveforms
> like  RTTY "under the bus" then the ARRL should probably lose the privilege
> of administering the RTTY RU contest.    Thoughts?
>
>   
>
> Terry  AB5K
>