Quite right Ron. Adding Digital DXCC category without deleting RTTY category
would have had a better outcome.
I wonder though, will there be an endorsement sticker to represent DXCC done
solely on RTTY.
http://www.ve3vid.webs.com/
> From: rkolarik@neb.rr.com
> To: ve3vid@hotmail.com
> Subject: Re: [RTTY] Looks like I won't get RTTY DXCC afterall
> Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 23:27:46 -0500
>
> Hi David,
>
> The question I asked on the DXCC forum
>
> Was there any chance for input on this decision from the amateur
> community at large?
>
> and the answer I got
>
> The change was not so much to encourage other digital modes as to recognize
> that they
> are increasingly being used, and that they count toward RTTY DXCC. If Phone
> DXCC
> originally had been called AM DXCC there would have had to have been a
> similar
> transition at some point as SSB came into use. As for additional awards,
> speaking just
> for myself I'm glad that DXpeditions aren't pressured to work the same guys
> over and
> over on the whole gamut of digital modes, thus reducing the chances of
> "little guns"
> to make one QSO.
>
> Input from the ARRL membership is via the DX Advisory Committee, whose
> members are
> appointed by the division directors.
> Dave, K1ZZ
>
> I don't remember the change being put up anywhere and I suspect it was to
> quiet the
> ops that were complaining of not
> having a DXCC to reflect their mode of choice. I think the ARRL missed an
> opportunity
> to add a Digital DXCC award
> with endorsements for each mode but that's just me.
>
> 73,
> Ron
> K0IDT
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David VE3VID" <ve3vid@hotmail.com>
> To: <w0mu@w0mu.com>; "RTTY contest group" <rtty@contesting.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 8:07 AM
> Subject: Re: [RTTY] Looks like I won't get RTTY DXCC afterall
>
>
> >
> > Is the ARRL aware of the upset this is causing?Was there any member
> > consultation
> > prior to the change?A quick look over the official rules looks like PSK and
> > Packet
> > were previously allowed for RTTY certificates.Clearly only a concern for
> > the
> > dedicated RTTY op, so how much of a voice do we really have?
> >
> > David
> >
> > http://www.ve3vid.webs.com/
> >
> >
>
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