I don't have a dog in this fight, but as an observer your argument seems
pretty fallacious to me. If somebody managed to come up with a RTTY
decoder that was much more effective at decoding I sincerely doubt you'd
be campaigning against it. Even so, the basic difference comes down to
S/N ratio and bandwidth ... RTTY is pretty solid given strength and space.
It seems to me that there are more rational arguments against mixing the
modes than RTTY being a less effective medium, or that it allows chatter
outside the points exchange.
Dave AB7E
On 5/1/2019 6:25 PM, john@kk9a.com wrote:
I agree, please keep FT? contests separate from RTTY. Unlike FT?, RTTY
decoders are not perfect. To do well a RTTY operator needs to quickly look
at multiple decoders to determine what the callsign and report most likely
are. There is nothing automatic and there are no set TX/RX times so every
operator can be as efficient as they choose. It is easy to send a quick
hello to your friends during the QSO, just like on CW and SSB.
John KK9A
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