Tag: rtty
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What Is RTTY, and Is It Still Worth Learning?
RTTY, radioteletype, predates every other digital mode covered on this site by decades. It was running over HF long before packet radio, PSK31, or FT8 existed, and it’s still alive today mostly because of one thing: contesting. Mechanical roots, digital survival RTTY traces back to actual mechanical teletype machines, using a 5-bit Baudot code to…