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Re: [CQ-Contest] Is RTTY Only a Contest Mode?

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Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Is RTTY Only a Contest Mode?
From: Jim Brown <k9yc@audiosystemsgroup.com>
Reply-to: k9yc@arrl.net
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 13:18:42 -0800
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On 2/10/2020 12:39 PM, Jeff Blaine wrote:
The limited success of RTTY on a dxpedition is not due to the mode specifically.  Rahter it's because callers tend to work RTTY like they do a CW pileup, but generally with even less skill.  On top of that the RTTY control op on the dxpedition end rarely has the skill needed to get solid rates

I mostly agree about the skills part, but I also think it's the mode. In my experience, RTTY is much harder to decode in a pileup than CW with the ears of a good op on the expedition and the skill of good op to time his/her call and figure out where to call.

73, Jim K9YC
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