[RTTY] RTTY frequencies

[iw1ayd - Salvatore Irato]

Hi all,
those are the right arguments and it's desirable to adhere to this de 
facto standard, as Joe wrote.
It's not a de jure or a technical standard as who is operating 
"whistling modes" there had chosen to channelize there "almost 
improperly". Channelized was then a must, now is too often a problem.

But that isn't my main concern. :-)

I strongly hope that also who operate in any DX expedition could take 
care of those facts, one for each band.

Often, if not every time, there is a DX expedition operator that choose 
one of those now de facto wrong QRGs, i.e 10.140 - 14.080. Then whoever 
him is at that time he get QRM, weak to high QSA and more than one 
signal usually, from any sort of whistled digital modes.

One of those two things is wrong:
the de facto use and land owning by the whistlers there;
the appropriate usage of those frequency for DX expeditions when they 
are in RTTY.

I am not against whistlers, of any tone,  and I am not against DX 
expeditions RTTY operators. But the latter must become aware of the de 
facto land owning act imposed by the growing of the firsts.

Somebody have to tell this "whistling act"  to DX expeditioneers, those 
great expenses, those great efforts to pursue contacts also with the us 
poor RTTYers and that unknown knowledge of what is getting more and more 
low the QSOs rate quite anywhere. (WARC bands are the worst!) It's 
unbelievable.

This  could be the wrong perspective since I am nailed just here, why not.
:-)

                    73 de iw1ayd Salvo


On 01/08/2015 00:04, rtty-request at contesting.com wrote:
> Message: 7
> Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 18:00:32 -0400
> From: "Joe Subich, W4TV"<lists at subich.com>
> To:rtty at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [RTTY] RTTY frequencies
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> On 2015-07-31 4:21 PM, Bill Turner wrote:
>   > Those are good recommendations except I would avoid frequencies
>   > between 70 to 80 kHz up from the bottom band edge (except 160 meters).
>   > Those frequencies are heavily used by PSK, JT65 and other digital
>   > modes.
>
> Since RTTY frequencies are generally the frequency of the*MARK*
> signal which is the*higher*  of the two tones, I would recommend
> avoiding frequencies below xx.080.5 to keep the entire RTTY signal
> outside of the JT65 and JT9 areas.
>
> It gets very annoying to hear high power RTTY contest signals in the
> relatively narrow segments for JT65 (xx.076 USB carrier) and JT9
> (xx.078 USB carrier) during even the "fringe" RTTY contests.
>
> 73,
>
>      ... Joe, W4TV