[RTTY] Lack of RTTY on 40 and 80 Meters

[Jim AC0E]

David,
  That is a good question.

  I don't operate 40 and 80 during the daylight hours very often.
At my QTH 80 meters is quite noisy (s7-9+) and so I mainly operate NTS 
CW nets on 80 meters. While 40 is much less noisy but it depends where 
on 40 you are looking as 7080-7100 is very quiet for RTTY most of the 
action I find is 7035-7060.
RTTY contest weekends are a different matter.
In addition, many are using spotting software and go to where the action 
is ( I do this quite often) and do not spin the dial or call CQ to 
strike up a QSO.

73 ~ Jim AC0E

On 3/24/2014 11:23 AM, David Tanks wrote:
> Maybe I missed something, but could someone tell me why there is almost zero RTTY on 40, and very little on 80? I can only find activity on bands above 40.  Thanks in advance.
>
> 73, David AD4TJ
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