EXACTLY!
73/88 :)
Jim W7RY
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From: "Susan King" <susan.k5du@gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 6:53 PM
To: "RTTY Reflector" <RTTY@contesting.com>
Subject: [RTTY] My Macro Opinion
> I think all you guys are thinking backwards. You spend too much time
> criticizing
> other folks' contest macros and responses.
>
> I was very careful to create and use crisp, no wasted shifts macros.
>
> CQ RU K5DU K5DU CQ
> and
> YourCall 599 TX TX
>
> Many of the stations in my log used similar crisp clean clear macros. But,
> and it is a
> major but, some hams sent really good alternative responses.
>
> TU HNY 599 VT VERMONT
> and
> 599 599 599 IN INDIANA
> and
> 599 ? IL ? IL 599 ? IL QSL?
> and
> HI SUSAN 599 599 CA CA
> and
> 599 CA 094 599 CA 094
>
> and many GL and 73 and even one 88.
>
> What's good about these responses? These hams answered my CQ. They got on
> the air and gave me
> a point. Sure each one might have cost me a millisecond more, but my score
> would have
> been much lower without them.
>
> If I erased all the QSOs not acceptable to the macro purists, I would have
> a
> much shorter
> log. I appreciate everyone who gave me a QSO, no matter how long it took.
>
> I never did stop to wonder whether QRZ? or CQ? was correct. I would answer
> either one.
>
> 73, Susan K5DU
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