I heard some awful sounding rtty during the contest. MMTTY decoded them. I
have no clue what why they sounded odd but they did. I also had a fair
number of people who called pretty far off frequency.
I was one that put the call in front of the exchange and not at the end. I
had it at the beginning and end but removed the one at the end. I only had
a few instances where people asked for fills.
My biggest pet peeve was multiple callers same freq same timing. If I was
loud and I didn't come back it is probably because two or more of you wiped
each other out. I would wait and see if anyone would dump in their call.
Most times not. CQ test and two or more would wipe each other out. Finally
someone would figure it out. I worked many mults dumping my call after the
first call. I can't send my exchange faster than you can dump your call a
couple of times. I am all for not trouncing on someone else but I know some
people left, I hope they came back.
I had a couple of people that could not read and just decided I must have
went back to them and they just dumped their exchange over the guy I was
working. I even had one station just send his call and the exchange all at
once. I can only remember a couple of times where people just fired up cq's
on top of the freq I was using.
Finding a clean spot on 80 was tough. I did end up around 3576 and had a
great run till the end of my time. I think I got lucky with other fairly
strong stations on either side. We were close but not so much that people
could not find me. I think I ended up on other people on 20 that were out
of my skip zone. I never found a good run frequency. 15m was open to AZ at
the start and even to the 1 land. Just very few people on the band. 10 was
dead...dead...dead....
Come on sunspots!
I was looking forward to a SO2R effort by I had a failure with radio 2. The
2nd radio sure helps with the mult totals and keeping you busy. I was sure
wishing I could have been alternating cq's on 15/20 or 20/40.
I worked lots of new faces that did not appear in the master callsign files.
This is great news!
I wish I could have worked everyone on all bands.
See you in the next one!
"A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may
never get over." Ben Franklin
-----Original Message-----
From: rtty-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:rtty-bounces@contesting.com] On
Behalf Of Tom Osborne
Sent: Sunday, March 01, 2009 10:08 AM
To: RTTY
Subject: [RTTY] Fun, but
Hi All
I had a great time in the NAQP this weekend, but there are a few things I
wish people would incorporate into their oerationg methods.
1. Please put a 'CQ' or 'NA' or whatever on the end of your CQ. People
tune across your signal and hear 'W1ABC K'. We don't know if you are
calling someone, ending a CQ, or just finishing up working someone. A 'CQ'
on the end takes care of that.
2. I know some people don't like to do it, but put the callsign of the
station you are working at the end of the macro. LOTS of times someone came
back to me when they were CQ'ing, but were covered up at the start by people
still calling them, and I had no idea who they were coming back to. All I
get is $%!()^&)Joe CO k. Then they had to wait and send the exchange again
so I could see who they were working.
3. I have been seeing a lot of bragging about 1 new rig where you can get
30 cycles next to another station and not be bothered by them. But, you do
bother us.
I have a 250 cycle filter and I don't know how many times someone sat down
50 cycles above or below me and started calling CQ. And I was way up the
band, about 14.120 where there was lots of room. Before calling CQ, open
your filter a bit and see if you are sitting right on top of someone else.
It seems as though this happened more than ever before this weekend.
OK off my soapbox. RTTY contests are still the most fun and RTTY contesters
are the best! Thanks for all the Q's this weekend and CU in the Sprint.
Tom W7WHY
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