It would be great to have more support to the QTT Hour idea. Let us revisit this and perhaps improve upon it?

Simply put, QTT Hour is one hour each day from the 1st to 23rd of each month, at the same UTC time. If today is the 17th so QTT Hour is at 1700-1759 UTC.

During QTT hour QTT are encouraged to try to be active, in QTT, that is, non-5NN activities. Every minute in QTT hour in your log with each station, counts toward monthly QTT Hour Total.

To make it easier to find QTT, during QTT Hour, CQ QTT or QTT may be helpful and centering activity on the same number of kHz from band edge. E.g. 17th at 1700UTC near 3517, 7017, 10117, etc.

The changing hour each day and the changing part of the band to use, ensures a wider spread of activity around the world, and avoiding QRM.

What is exchanged during QTT hour does not matter. But I'm thinking it could be a good idea to bring back the original idea of exchanging QTT followed by CW membership clubs numbers and former callsigns held. And perhaps each one sent and correctly received is worth a point.

This could however bring it closer to a contest, so I'm not sure if that is a good idea. The counting of the minutes alone, does not make QTT Hour a contest. But it would be good to encourage people to sign up to many CW Clubs and to show off past callsigns held, including professional ones, as a means of generating cross club activity and awareness among QTT.

So what do you think? It could be good to give additional value to those who are members of many clubs. E.g. my own QTT would be QTT SWXX G4OJW FIST1124 UFT728 HSC1437 RCWC980 SKCC15007 CWOPS1714 — that's quite a lot isn't it — 8 (QTT points?) or a multiplier? But we want to encourage DURATION so QTT Minutes I think is best.

Just perhaps the exchange of QTT info can be voluntary, and a means of making the QSO a bit longer and interesting, as it will then often results in conversations resulting from, for example, finding out that your QSO partner was also a former maritime mobile operator, or formerly operated in another country the same as you.

What say?