Topband: 160m in RTTY Contests

[Art]

I operate RTTY. I'm very happy that RTTY contests exclude 160M for the 
simple reasons that:

1) I would never operate RTTY below 1850 out of respect for CW DX 
activity in that area. Many of these guys don't operate RTTY and/or 
don't contest, but are active wintertimes every day. In any case if 
something did show on CW that I was interested in, that would be the end 
of my RTTY ops. There's already plenty of incursion into CW DX territory 
during SSB contests.

2) As a more or less casual RTTY op I would not take the trouble to 
retune my tx antenna for higher in the band where it does not now 
operate well.

I'm agin' it. Just my .02.

73 Art

Ed Muns wrote:
> Most (all?) RTTY contests prohibit operation on 160 meters.  Yet, a number
> of RTTY contesters have asked that it be added.  I'd like to hear your
> thoughts on this topic, pro and con.  In particular, I'm thinking about the
> CQ WPX RTTY and CQ WW RTTY contests.
>
> Ed - W0YK
> CQ RTTY Contest Director
>