Yes, Andrew, you've been doing RTTY too long :.)
Same for me - I can recognize (I don't know if COPY is the right
term) my callsign, 599 and CQ without a problem. There have been
times in RTTY pileups where the DX came back to someone, but it
didn't print on the screen - I knew it was me by the sound of it!
73,
Barry W2UP
On 21 Oct 2002 at 17:50, Andrew J O'Brien wrote:
> Perhaps its a sign that I have been spending too much time operating
> RTTY but... over the weekend I was casually in the JARTS contest. At
> one period I had had the radio off for a few hours. I eventually
> turned it on but left my software inactive while I sent some email .
> After 10 minutes my mind became aware of a RTTY signal and I found
> myself saying "that sounds like AA5AU". I loaded up the software and
> sure enough, there was Don CQing away on 20 meters. I have NO idea
> how my brain figured it was him. Interesting.
>
> Andy KB2EOQ
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