[GreenKeys] TTY activity

[KFIam640 at aol.com]

In a message dated 1/9/2007 5:57:40 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
telegrapher at att.net writes:

For  those of you who don't have or operate on the HF bands, judging from 
the  activity during the contest last weekend there is no doubt that RTTY  
activity thrives.  Not only was there activity on 15 but also on 20  
(bunches of stations), 40M had 50 kc of rtty station activity and 80 was  
very busy on Saturday evening as well.

I wonder how many of them  have heard of the greenkeys list?  Didn't 
print any stations that i  recognize from the list  here.

Larry
W0OGH



I have operated RTTY continuously since 1956 and have noticed  in recent 
years that I no longer hear much RTTY activity.  When I got  into contesting about 
four years ago I was astounded by how many stations were  on for the 
contests.  Where do they all go between contests?  My guess  is that most of the 
contestants have not worked with mechanical machines and are  only interested in 
the contesting aspect of RTTY.  I am glad to see that  RTTY is thriving even 
though most of us now use our computers for RTTY.   Even though I use my computer 
for RTTY I still enjoy turning on my model 28ASR  and model 15 TTY machines 
from time to time.
 
Marvin, W6OQI