[PaQSO] RTTY in PQP 2005?

Walt Nero k3ear at yahoo.com
Sun Feb 20 12:52:58 EST 2005


How about including All Digital Modes , But state only
one contact per station per band no matter what Mode .
This sticks to the KISS plan . I would vote for that
....Walt ...................................

--- Ron Notarius <wn3vaw at verizon.net> wrote:

> Define RTTY.
> 
> If you are limiting it, for contest purposes or
> discussion purposes, to
> Baudot mode only, I say "no."
> But... if you intend to include AMTOR, PACTOR, PSK31
> and other modes, then I
> say "yes" conditional on how you write the rules.
> 
> I would limit it, for now, to accepted digital modes
> -- Baudot, ASCII,
> AMTOR, PACTOR, and PSK31 are in wide enough use
> and/or easy enough to
> implement that someone who truly wants to get on in
> those modes can.  But
> some of the more obscure (for now) modes -- MFSK16,
> Hellschriber (sp?), and
> so forth... I don't think they're mainstream enough
> for now to include in a
> contest.  Further, I would limit you to ONE digital
> contact per call per
> band -- ie, if you work N3SH on PSK31 on 20, you
> can't work N3SH on Baudot
> on 20 during the same contest.
> 
> IMHO.  YMMV.  VWPBL.
> 
> 73, ron wn3vaw
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Al Zelna" <mr.mri at epix.net>
> To: <paqso at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2005 6:32 AM
> Subject: [PaQSO] RTTY in PQP 2005?
> 
> 
> > This list has been too quiet for far too long. 
> This topic is sure to
> liven
> > it up a bit.  Let's start it off with a simple
> poll and play pretend.
> >
> > You are asked to vote YES or NO on including RTTY
> in the 2005 PQP.  Your
> > vote happens to be the pretend tiebreaker, which
> decides it all.  Please
> > vote below and give a brief explanation.
> >
> >
> > Al Zelna, N3KAE
> >
> >
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