On 08/02/2011 9:42 PM, Al Kozakiewicz wrote:
> Out of curiousity, what's the benefit to you of calling PSK31 RTTY? The only
> thing that's changed is the name of the award. It has been made
> representative of what the award is for. Handing out an RTTY award for 100
> PSK31 QSO's (which the ARRL has been doing for 20 or so years) and calling it
> the RTTY award would seem to disrespect a mode you want respected.
As any number have suggested, Keep the RTTY DXCC and create a New
"Digital" DXCC.
RTTY is RTTY.
Everything else, is Digital.
And oddly, I wouldn't / didn't consider a QSL for other then RTTY,
when I submitted my RTTY DXCC application.
> Like Abe Lincoln said - you can call a tail a leg, but a dog still has only 4
> legs.
>
> And modes don't care what you call them or how you categorize them. They are
> quite insentient!
>
> Al
> AB2ZY
In which case, Eliminate ALL mode specific DXCC awards. We'll only
have One, DXCC. 100 countries regardless of mode.
I don't see that getting to far either...
73 Mike WB9B
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rtty-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:rtty-bounces@contesting.com] On
> Behalf Of Andrei Stchislenok
> Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 10:20 PM
> To: Kok Chen
> Cc: RTTY Reflector
> Subject: Re: [RTTY] Digital DXCC or ARRL Board of Directors, respectfully:
> have my strong disagreement
>
> Sorry - quite disagree. Means nonsense for me , regardless how many "more
> ARRL members that prefer...".
>
> I prefer not to appeal to the "crowd", prefer say from myself.
>
> Picture?? - photo shop has them a lot. 24 HR shops as well have "Pictures".
> No good as stand alone...
>
> PSK31?? - with due respect to this Young mode - it cannot replace Old but
> Good RTTY!
>
> 2011/8/2 Kok Chen<chen@mac.com>
>
>> On Aug 2, 2011, at 6:26 PM, Andrei Stchislenok wrote:
>>
>>> I would leave RTTY as it is and grouped all others digital modes
>>> into
>> "DIGITAL".
>>> WE have here: (and will die with them):
>>>
>>> CW,
>>>
>>> PHONE,
>>>
>>> RTTY,
>>>
>>> DIGITAL.
>> Redundant. Unless you are arguing that RTTY is not a Digital mode?
>>
>> If you include a 4th award, I am sure there are more ARRL members that
>> prefer
>>
>> CW
>> PHONE
>> PSK31
>> DIGITAL.
>>
>> In any case, it makes much more sense to have
>>
>> CW
>> PHONE
>> PICTURE
>> DIGITAL.
>>
>> 73
>> Chen, W7AY
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