Jim, et. el.
I tried RTTY on 160m last night. No luck and lots of noise.
I vote for Chen -- his explanation for 160m operation is not
emotional and makes much sense.
73 de Phil - N8PS
PS. I hit 'reply to all' so that Jim would also get a copy.
Unfortunately, 'topband' (that was in the cc:) rejected this post.
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Quoting Jim N7US <n7us@mc.net>:
> I'm a RTTY DXer, sometimes casual RTTY contester, and a 160M op. Based on
> all the points mentioned so far, including the international allocations,
> the narrow spectrum used on 160 due to those allocations, and mutual
> cooperation and respect, I was one who voted against RTTY contests on 160.
> Unless one is very dedicated and has effective, low noise receiving
> antennas, 160 is only usable for DX a few months of the year. RTTY seems to
> have an inordinate number of contests anyway, so I vote to keep 160 free of
> them.
>
> Jim N7US
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> From: Jim W7RY [mailto:w7ry@arrl.net]
> Sent: October 31, 2009 09:54
> To: Dallmeier, Walter; rtty@contesting.com; drcg@drcg.de
> Subject: Re: [RTTY] Topband: 160m in RTTY Contests
>
> I would not call this a poll from the RTTY community. There were quite a few
>
> responses on this reflector from the top band reflector too.
>
> Most top band hard core folks don't want RTTY on "their" band. And "they"
> call it the gentleman's band ?
>
> 73
>
> Jim W7RY
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > here the summary of the Poll "Top Band 160m RTTY Contesting" with 67 votes
>
> > after 3 days.
> > The result is around 50/50 of Yes/No.
> >
> > It seems that the RTTY community is pretty evenly split about this
> > question.
> > More information at www.drcg.de .
> >
> >
> > vy 73, de Walter, DL4RCK, DL4R
> >
> > Walter Dallmeier
> >
>
>
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