with great reluctance,,, I was going to eliminate the "TU" in the
exchange---I have always felt, and still feel that the rtty bunch is
the nicest group of competitors that I have ever encountered, and,,,
always felt pleasure in expressing my thanks of a contest qso by a "TU"--
I understand the need for speed and a "TU" multiplier by hundreds of
times would eat up time for the big gun contester-- I get that,,,but
still we, the rtty folks are a unique group--I feel notches above the
average,,, I hate to see that being lost--as I write this,,, I want to
go back to my roots--a "TU" is needed to remind the big guns,and
everyone, if it were not for us little shots,,big gamers would have
very few folk to work,..
get over it--the "TU" is staying in to my macros--
a matter of perspective. If we can not take time to appreciate and
acknowledge the efforts of others, is a shame, for all of us,,,
,It is, or at least , should be a hobby,,,please lets keep it that
way....see you this weekend with a "TU"
73 and "good luck in the contest"
john
On 7/16/2014 16:42, Tim Shoppa wrote:
In a real RTTY contest, the "PLEASE COPY" is surprisingly rare. (It was
pretty common on field day, which thank God is not an actual contest!)
More common in real RTTY contests, are long preambles of punctuation
especially from EU contesters, and/or canned macros that greet me as
"Timothy" from a licensing database every time I ask for a fill. I don't
mind the guys who call me by name in exchange because they actually know
me, that's fine.
On the subject of asking for a fill... I saw on several occasions "PLEASE
MORE NR" in the DL RTTY contest a few weekends ago. That was very pleasing
to see! Asking for a fill in marginal conditions, and getting a long canned
macro that prints fine except for the actual variable exchange info which
was only sent once, is very frustrating!
I would encourage anyone setting up macros for CW or RTTY contesting, to
include a button for "superfill", where the variable exchange info is
repeated many times over. This is what I set up for that DL contest, I
encourage this become part of any standard contest macro package:
F6 Superfill, {TX}{ENTER}{EXCH} {EXCH} {EXCH} {EXCH} {EXCH} {EXCH} {EXCH}
{EXCH}{RX}
In the past Ed W0YK and others have tried to steer folks to "modular
macros". In my modular macro setup, I can use the macro keys to make any
initial exchange have multiple repeats of actual variable exchange
depending on conditions/QRM. I will generally send the variable exchange
info twice in the initial exchange except under the most optimal
conditions, because that is more efficient than having to give fills.
Tim.
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