I am trying to get some more DX on eighty for the 5 band DXCC, and eighty is usually very good to me on RTTY. Due to other obligations, I decided to try again later on Saturday evening on eighty meters. Went to the most popular band, twenty meters, and found only a small handful of the "usual suspects" calling. However, I can usually get a couple hundred QSO's in the log during even a small type contest. Now, to be fair, part of that is due to a few problems, not the least of which is my antenna, poor HF conditions in general and the fact that the WAE contest is not one of the biggest or most popular contests. This weekend I've been tuning around through the "digital/ narrow band" sections of the bands looking for RTTY stations to work for the WAE contest going on this week. Then along comes the ultimate lazy man's digital mode: FT8 and derivatives. Casual and contest RTTY was still pretty strong. But also over the years we have seen many new digital modes come on and RTTY as a mode seemed to withstand the "competition" pretty well. Over the years, RTTY has always been a good mode for casual operating and the occasional contest.Īs the years go on, my focus with RTTY had kind of moved to the contest mode. RTTY is one of my favorite modes to operate.
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