Bill, thanks for the post regarding the RTTY  spots. The statistics for WPX RTTY would likely be greater. Lots of activity, but sadly only in the tests today. None in DxPeditions anymore.
Were computer to computer casual RTTY QSOs more common in the past? It seems ragchew QSOs have dropped significantly in all modes. How to encourage? Interest might be developed if more recognize that the old machines are still active. Perhaps bonus points in a few smaller contests for working stations running the old hardware. That would increase the awareness. A list of calls running old machines could be made available ahead of the contest. Might more idol machines be put to use? Might contest sponsors might like the idea?
Do the new ops know what CR/LF is?

73, John W1AN

On 29-Mar-24 17:26, William Wuttke wrote:

Just for fun, I did an analysis of RBN RTTY spots for the recent BARTG contest using the “DB Browser for SQLite”. RBN CSV files were easily converted to SQLite tables. Here’s what I found:


39 RTTY spotters worldwide

21 RTTY spotters in NA

16 RTTY spotters in EU

2 RTTY spotters in OC


There were a total of 292793 spots sent to RBN, consisting of 2185 individual callsigns (DX entities).


643 DX entities from NA

1251 DX entities from EU

59 DX entities from OC

45 DX entities from SA

148 DX entities from AS

39 DX entities from AF


I just got my Red Pitaya running as a RTTY skimmer server and here are my statistics:


I sent a total of 3500 spots to RBN, consisting of 367 individual DX entities.


I wish a few more of these contesters would enjoy a "conversational" QSO with the handful of us that do so regularly.

73,
Bill
KE3BK

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