[RTTY] A question on the history of the major RTTY contests

[Ed Muns]

Yes, there is a historical reason.  The RTTY modes were instigated by different people.  Also, in those days RTTY was not perceived as a sibling to CW and SSB, but rather a different species.  Now, though, if the other modes choose to comply with the RTTY rules I'm happy to adopt them into our family.  Seriously, apart from a few rules differences, we really do work closely together today.

73,
Ed W0YK
On Aug 15, 2016 9:22 AM, Rudy Bakalov via RTTY <rtty at contesting.com> wrote:
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> In the past week or so I had two separate situations in which I got the distict impression that CQ WPX RTTY and CQ WW RTTY are considered "separate" events from their respective CW/SSB brothers. So I was wondering why. Is there a historical reason, such as being sponsored by different sponsors or anything else? It is a bit strange. 
> Rudy N2WQ 
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