Larry's tutorial is excellent and how I learned to exchange QTCs with N1MM+.
For WriteLog users, there's a tutorial on how to operate WAE with WriteLog here:
http://www.rttycontesting.com/tutorials/writelog2/wae-rtty/
73, Don AA5AU
From: Larry Gauthier (K8UT) <K8UT@charter.net>
To: rtty@contesting.com; Thom <ki8w@ki8w.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2016 9:51 AM
Subject: Re: [RTTY] WAE RTTY and QTCs
Thom,
Sending/Receiving QTCs can be a complicated for new RTTY contesters. If
you're using N1MM Logger, you can find an instructional video for RTTY QTCs
here:
http://n1mm.hamdocs.com/tiki-index.php?page=Instructional+Videos
-larry (K8UT)
-----Original Message-----
From: Thom
Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2016 8:55 AM
To: rtty@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [RTTY] WAE RTTY and QTCs
Well the WAE Contest is still a couple week away so I am leaving the
door open for a possible participation.
73
Thom KI8W
On 10/27/2016 12:52, Dave Barr wrote:
> I have been doing QTCs in the WAE for several years because it is fun and
> it raises my score to one I'd never be able to achieve running QRP, as I
> usually do. I _always_ ask to receive QTCs, never to send, since my QRP
> signal is usually too weak for reliable and reasonably quick transmission
> of QTCs to another station. I noticed in my log report for 2015 that I
> had about a 7% error rate in receiving QTCs (which of course has nothing
> to do with my running 5 watts). Is this an unusually high error rate, or
> is it simply that there is so much chance for undetectable errors in the
> time (as long as its within sequence), call suffix and serial numbers
> sent?
>
> Dave, K2YG
>
>
>> Thom
>> I hear you.
>> May be blasphemous to say it, but you can participate without the QTC
>> thing.
>> Your score will be relatively low but still fun.
>> I started doing the QTC thing last year at the urging of K2YG and once
>> you set up the macros I found that it is not that difficult and makes it
>> interesting.
>> 73
>> Al
>> K2AL
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>>> On Oct 26, 2016, at 9:44 PM, Thom <ki8w@ki8w.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I thought about running WAE RTTY but this QTC thing has me totally
>>> confused. Right now, with my current state of mind, I do not need more
>>> complication in my RTTY operations. Maybe next year. Good luck in the
>>> contest, all.
>>>
>>> 73
>>>
>>> Thom KI8W
>>>
>>>
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