Concentration of stations into artificially small bandwidths.Number of duplicate reports of the same spot per mode, which is also influenced by the ratio of listeners to transmitters.The counts in that list is influenced by a number of things. Maybe I can work some of you other die-hard RTTY fans this season? Just want to put in a reminder that there are still other modes to operate, that's all! One of the easiest modes to operate and work DX at relatively low power and low stress. Oh, BTW, just in case someone asks: I too, find FT8 strangely attractive. I guess that this is just a bit of hoping that the RTTY guys will still try to get on and make some "Q's" this contest season before the FT's get too strong. All legacy modes to be sure, but still going strong. CW is still strong as is SSB and even AM. Not news, I know, but it is a reflection of the times we live in. RTTY, PSK, Olivia, and other digital modes are all wasting away. In the short time that the FT8 and variants have been around, they have pretty much taken over the 'digital" mode audience. Came back this morning and saw the same distribution: RTTY crickets. That apparently is where everyone was hanging out. Found the busy hive of activity on the FT8 watering hole. The ground under it slopes away from the feed point and the average height is somewhere around 40-70 feet.
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BTW, my antenna for eighty is a full wave loop up quite a ways. Eighty meter RTTY is usually very busy on a contest Saturday. So I went to eighty meters Saturday evening, and found no body on. 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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