Topband: 160m in RTTY Contests

[alan eshleman]

Bad idea.  Unless the contesting could stay well above 1900 kHZ, it would do little to advance RTTY contesting and a great deal to anger us Top Band DXers.  And I *do* operate in RTTY contests.

73,

Alan/K6SRZ

--- On Mon, 10/26/09, Art <k6xt at arrl.net> wrote:

> From: Art <k6xt at arrl.net>
> Subject: Re: Topband: 160m in RTTY Contests
> To: w0yk at msn.com, "TopBand List" <topband at contesting.com>
> Date: Monday, October 26, 2009, 9:33 PM
> 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
> >   
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