[RTTY] RTTY DXCC Startup date?

[Don AA5AU]

This from the rules:

d) Digital: Contacts can include QSOs using any/all digital modes, in any combination (except CW) since November 15, 1945. Digital modes include RTTY, PSK-31, JT65, etc. and any modes that are only machine-readable, and any that use computer sound card technology, with the exception of digital voice, which counts for Phone. 


73, Don AA5AU



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> From: joeduerbusch <k0bx at arrl.net>
>To: ws7ik7tj at gmail.com 
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>Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2014 2:01 PM
>Subject: Re: [RTTY] RTTY DXCC Startup date?
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>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:
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>> 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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