Or just send what you need to send with your paddle. F keys are best
for repeated elements. To the extent you don't have an F key dedicated
to what you want to send, you should always have your paddle/keyer to
send with, even to say Hi to your friends. How would Paul, N4PN, have
greeted all his contest friends without one? 73, John, K4BAI.
On 11/8/2019 4:26 PM, Jack Brindle via CQ-Contest wrote:
I think part of the problem is the number of F-Keys available for messages.
Sweepstakes has four fields that may require fills (really five, but we usually have
our callsign covered with a key already). This means that we need eight keys (four for
fill requests, the other four for the actually data). Most loggers don’t really
support this many keys, so we end up choosing what data we can assign to keys and hope
for the best. With that in mind, many ops will simply append Prec to Nr and then send
them together. Even still, that means six keys.
So, what I suspect what most folks do is to just send the whole thing whenever any
fill request comes in. There is also the situation where we get tired and accidentally
hit the wrong key. I found myself a time or two in CW SS accidentally hitting the CQ
key (quickly followed by abort) when I really wanted to hit the NR key. I used
SkookumLogger in Sweeps. I assigned the four fills to keys, then brought up the
keyboard CW whenever I needed to request a fill. That also caused a few issues from
forgetting to get out of keyboard mode, usually sending the received fill data at the
end of my exchange. Yes, I did confuse a few folks. They were tired also…
So perhaps it might be a combination of them misunderstanding the request,
hitting the wrong key, or not having all the fill data set up on their keyboard.
73!
Jack, W6FB
On Nov 8, 2019, at 12:39 PM, N4ZR <n4zr@comcast.net> wrote:
I think most folks use PREC? but if the guy on the other end says "?" I try "NR?" in hope
that he will concatenate number and precedence, and if necessary, "AGN PSE". But I agree, not
everyone gets it.
73, Pete N4ZR
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On 11/8/2019 12:27 PM, john@kk9a.com wrote:
What it the best way to ask for a repeat of someone's precedence in SS CW? For
me this is the most difficult part of the exchange to get sent again. Often I
get the section is repeated instead and I have to ask again in a different way
or sometimes the whole report is sent again which at least resolves the issue.
In a few cases the calling station simply disappeared after my query and I had
to wipe them from my log.
John W4AAA (KK9A,op)
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