[RTTY] RTTY popularity in Italy?

[John GW4SKA]

It could be just lack of universal publicity for the survey. Maybe you could 
tie in the next survey with the log submission robot of CQWW or WPX, so that 
a prompt comes up after the log is submitted?
John GW4SKA / GW0A


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ed Muns" <ed at w0yk.com>
To: "'Tim Shoppa'" <tshoppa at gmail.com>
Cc: <rtty at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2015 6:51 PM
Subject: Re: [RTTY] RTTY popularity in Italy?


> Unfortunately, a disproportionately small number of Italians, and 
> Europeans
> in general, responded to the recent RTTY Contesting Survey.
>
> 62 Germany responses
> 58 England responses
> 38 Italy responses
>
> 294 Europe responses
> 945 North America responses
>
>
> Ed W0YK
>
> _________________________________________________________________
>
> Tim N3QE wrote:
>
> In any RTTY event or contest on the air, I cannot help but notice that so
> many of the RTTY big guns as well as many smaller guns, are Italians. 
> There
> are many of them and they are prolific and hugely successful.
>
> Obviously the RTTY guys in Italy are doing something right. I get to see
> for example the Volta contest organized out of Italy, and that's been 
> going
> on for almost 50 years now!, so obviously there's a long tradition of RTTY
> in Italy. Are the Italians also doing a lot of grass-roots local club
> promotion of RTTY?
>
> One of my goals this summer is to beat the drum and get some better
> participation by locals in RTTY events. Any tips on local RTTY organizing
> I'd like to hear. I've made some personal visits to help some non-RTTY
> contesters get on the air, and they've shown up for a couple contests, but
> keeping them in the RTTY fold has been difficult.
>
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