Topband: 160m in RTTY Contests

[Joe Wilkowski]

Ditto !

73's

Joe
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Art" <k6xt at arrl.net>
To: <w0yk at msn.com>; "TopBand List" <topband at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 10:33 PM
Subject: Re: Topband: 160m in RTTY Contests


>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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