[RTTY] FREQUENCY IN USE BY ... (JT65/JT9)

[Phil Snyder]

I get on the WARC bands on a regular basis and CQ on RTTY. I have had 
lots of great QSO's both domestic and DX. I generally call CQDX but have 
never turned down anyone who wants to ragchew on RTTY,  as long as they 
don't mind my terrible typing. I try to have a couple of macros handy 
for those who just want a 599, but also have a couple that start me off 
so I have time to think and compose my message. There are very few times 
that I have walked away without at least one QSO.

Phil Snyder
N9LAH
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/*On 1/6/2014 8:46 PM, Don Hill AA5AU wrote:
> Ken wrote:
>
> "RTTY is basically a contest-only mode."
>
> I love you Ken but have to disagree on this one. Although RTTY is probably mostly used in contests, it is also a valuable DX mode.
> At times I have worked DX on RTTY that I hadn't worked on other modes. I have now, but at the time, some entities could only be
> worked on RTTY. Look at P5/4L4FN. If you didn't work him on SSB or RTTY, you didn't work him.
>
> Try working a DXpedition on PSK, JT65 or JT9. No thanks. Give me RTTY for digital DX any day.
>
> 73, Don AA5AU
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: RTTY [mailto:rtty-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Ktfrog007 at aol.com
> Sent: Monday, January 06, 2014 6:34 PM
> To: rtty at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [RTTY] FREQUENCY IN USE BY ... (JT65/JT9)
>
> RTTY is basically a contest-only mode.  Check the RTTY subbands during  the week sometime.  They are vast wastelands, even 20m.
> Then check  the PSK and JT65 frequencies - there is always something going on .  That's  why I
> took up JT65, just to have something digital to do between contests.   And I
> don't care to ragchew or brag about my station and memberships.
>   
> I started on RTTY in 2008 and there was way more everyday activity then
> than now.   Aside from contests, not much else happens except for  the
> occasional DXpedition or special event station.
>   
> If possession is nine tenths of the law, we RTTY folks don't have much of a  claim on these frequencies.  No wonder PACTOR4 wants
> in.
>   
> Please don't lynch me.  I'm a harmless OF with a bad back.
>   
> 73,
> Ken, AB1J
>   
>   
>   
> In a message dated 1/6/2014 21:55:32 GMT Standard Time, w7why at frontier.com
> writes:
>
> Hi  Stan
>
> Well - you have to take into account, this is a RTTY reflector,  not a 'digital' reflector/  I think most guys here are RTTY
> contesters.  73 and HNY Tom  W7WHY
>
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Phil Snyder
N9LAH
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