Tim, You are reading way more than what was said. Nothing about the demise of anything. You always have the diehards who operate older technology equipment and modes. But I am saying that it is not as active as it once was. Same thing can be said for CW. If you have a certain number of active hams and they move to new modes, then they won't be using an older mode at that specific time and space.
I did a little listening today on 20 meters and noticed an HK4, VE7, KD5/QRP, EA5, 7X2 on PSK mode. In the "old" days I would bet that these same stations would have been on RTTY. Then when I tuned up further into the "RTTY" area, I copied a KG6 chatting with a KB6 on RTTY and also a TU8 and EA7 and pileup going on. So there were more stations on PSK than RTTY in terms of using the frequencies. I suppose you could call the pileup stations all communicating too, and they were spread out some. I am thankful, very thankful, for the computer based sound card modes. Even though I used a Model 15 green key teleprinter some decades ago with homebrew and commercial TU's, I would never want to go back. 73, Rick, KV9U Tim Gorman wrote: > On Monday 20 February 2006 08:40, KV9U wrote: > > Bonnie, > > > > > > > What I would like to see are some practical bandplans that have a > > recommended spot frequency for digital modes. We do have that by default > > now on 20 meters for the .070 PSK31, and similar areas on 40 and 80 > > meters. The RTTY operation is often about 10 KHz higher as you point > > out. But except for contesting, RTTY is not as popular anymore as other > > digital modes and probably will drop off even more as older hams > become SK. > > > > > I'd be careful about predicting the demise of RTTY. RTTY using FSK has > been > provided in almost 3 generations of SSB rigs in one fashion or another > requiring very simple interfaces to use. > > I still have an old laptop serial ascii terminal along with a > pk-232mbx set up > for RTTY with any rig that has fsk capability. I don't need any fancy > switching setup to use a microphone and computer sound card - just a > matching > accessory plug for the transceiver, an RTTY position to change to, and a > headphone plug to get audio for the pk-232. > > tim ab0wr > > Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to Telnet://cluster.dynalias.org Other areas of interest: The MixW Reflector : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/themixwgroup/ DigiPol: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Digipol (band plan policy discussion) Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
