[RTTY] RTTY DXCC Startup date?

[Joe Subich, W4TV]

1945 is the correct start date.  From the DXCC Rules:

> d) RTTY: Contacts must be made using radioteletype since November 15,
> 1945. (Baudot, ASCII, AMTOR, PSK, packet and other digital modes
> count towards RTTY.) Confirmations for cross-mode contacts for this
> award must be dated September 30, 1981, or earlier.

73,

    ... Joe, W4TV


On 4/29/2014 3:01 PM, joeduerbusch wrote:
> Jay is correct about the dates.  But I believe only RTTY contacts from
> November 1, 1976 forward counts towards RTTY DXCC.  The CW/PHONE guys who
> had worked everything,  jumped on the RTTY bandwagon as a way to start over
> on a new DXCC.  Without that rule change, RTTY as we know it would have
> never grown.
> Hope to see everyone at the RTTY Dinner in Dayton next month.
>
> Joe K0BX
> RTTY Honor Roll with only 5 left.
>
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> On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 5:21 PM, Jay WS7I <ws7ik7tj at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Sure can Don.  July 1976 the ARRL announced a RTTY DXCC to be started on
>> November 1, 1976.  In July of 1984 they started endorsing as the first was
>> only for 100 cards. And the RTTY Honor Roll on December 1993.
>>
>> Source _RTTY Journal_ Volume 24, Nr 7.
>>
>> 73 Jay WS7I
>>
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>> On 4/29/2014 9:54 AM, Don AA5AU wrote:
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>>> Can anyone tell me when the ARRL started the RTTY DXCC award?
>>>
>>> I know contacts dated back to 1945 count for RTTY DXCC, but I'm trying to
>>> determine when the award first started.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Don AA5AU
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> R
>>>
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