I Agree, while in Costa Rica I could not sleep, all I could see was TI2/AK0A
five or six times, no sheep. hi hi
----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Faunt N6TQS +1-510-655-8604" <faunt@panix.com>
To: <rtty@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 5:19 PM
Subject: Re: [RTTY] RE: Chen's view of the conditions!
>
> From: Raj VE6RAJ <raj@logicresources.com>
To: <rtty@contesting.com>
> Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 15:58:09 -0600
>
> Hi Shelby:
>
> I agree that there is lots of good information there. However it seems
> to break down in the practical application. Can you imagine calling a
> station in the CQWW SSB test thus:
>
> "VE6RAJ VE6RAJ VE6RAJ K1XXX"
> or
> "599 04 599 04 VE6RAJ"
>
> Yet quite often in a rtty test I get VE6RAJ VE6RAJ VE6RAJ DE K1XXX
>
> I do know my own call sign. RTTY contetsing is no different than the
> other modes. Make sure the calling station gets your call sign, and
work
> on the premise that the calling station knows his own call sign.
>
> I'd like for people to pass this on to their DXer friends, also.
> If I'm at 3D2CI, I know my call.
>
> And I don't need to be told I'm 599 6 times. If you send a real
> report, then twice is OK. I don't want to know your name or state if
> I'm on some island. And I mostly don't want to chat if I've got a
> pileup going.*
>
> 73, doug
>
> * I want to publicly thank Eddie for passing a message to my wife,
> BTW. She was beginning to wonder.
>
>
>
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