It also doesn't suffer from the ridiculous printing up garbage because a shift character was lost. If there ever was an outdated mode, it's RTTY.
Unfortunately logic or technical arguments play very little part in the reason why people choose to use particular modes. Many RTTY operators insist on actually FSK-ing their radios instead of using AFSK, even though it means they have to accurately tune in every signal instead of just clicking on a waterfall, which would surely be quicker. Julian, G4ILO --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, KH6TY <kh...@...> wrote: > > The hope was that PSK63 could replace RTTY, being both spectrally more > efficient, and more usable for a panoramic presentation for contesters > to see who is on the band, but it never came about. Too bad, I think, > because it would help reduce congestion during contests. PSK63's overall > time to complete an exchange is roughly equal to RTTY (twice as fast as > PSK31), which is considered too slow for "RTTY" contesting, but I don't > understand why it has not been adopted. I even wrote an article on PSK63 > for the National Contest Journal, but there appeared to be little > interest and few comments. > > 73 - Skip KH6TY >
