> The ARRL DXCC Desk now says if it is not CW or Phone, it is Digital.
First, that only applies to DXCC - WAS recognizes all of the digital
modes separately *in addition* to a multi-mode "Digital" award. In
addition, "Phone" includes AM, FM, SSB and SSTV as well as any other
*analog* mode other than CW.
> We first saw the elimination of the RTTY DXCC by the ARRL DXCC Desk
> and now that administrative policy decision seems to be leaking over
> to contesting.
RTTY has included other digital modes like ASCII, AMTOR, and PACKET
for more than 30 years. Changing the name of the RTTY DXCC to reflect
inclusion of other digital modes is *no different* than calling the
AM DXCC "PHONE DXCC" instead of naming it after the first phone mode.
The name of the DIGITAL DXCC has no bearing on contesting. Acceptable
digital modes and whether the modes are counted separately vary with
the contest. RTTY Roundup permits Baudot, ASCII, AMTOR, PSK31 and
PACKET - and a station can be worked only once per band regardless of
mode. Those rules have been consistent for several years,
73,
... Joe, W4TV
On 6/30/2012 6:35 PM, Dick Kriss wrote:
>
>> From: Dick Kriss <aa5vu@att.net> Subject: Re: FD RTTY Question
>> Date: June 26, 2012 1:20:22 PM CDT To: rtty@contesting.com
>>
>> QSL on the comments about PSK-31 vs. RTTY. I tried to use PSK-31
>> and it was just too slow and very frustrating where RTTY worked
>> great. I noticed a big increase in the number of FD stations
>> running RTTY this year and I think this is a good thing.
>>
>> I learned something new doing an all digital FD regarding dup
>> checks. I found one QSO with the same call on 14 MHz for both
>> PSK-31 and RTTY. Most software logging programs (as well as the
>> ARRL's LoTW) considers PSK-31 and RTTY as separate modes and will
>> not show them as dup. The ARRL DXCC Desk now says if it is not CW
>> or Phone, it is Digital. We first saw the elimination of the RTTY
>> DXCC by the ARRL DXCC Desk and now that administrative policy
>> decision seems to be leaking over to contesting.
>>
>> 73 Dick AA5VU
>>
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>
> I was surprised at no comments on my message about dups or the ARRL
> policy decision that if it is not CW or Phone, it is Digital.
>
> How about Write Log, N1MM etc. Do they log PSK-31 and RTTY as
> separate modes or will they tilt on the same call and band if one is
> PSK-31 and the other is RTTY?
>
> It was interesting today to note K2K Special Event was running PSK-63
> and BSK-1 on 20 meters. I worked K2K in PSK-63 as a digital mode and
> passed when K2K showed up again in PSK-31.
>
> Dick
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