Not sure Buddy, the period thing is used a lot by guys who are not familiar
with the traditional exchanges. They will catch on eventually. I work them
all, but I don't stop to give any advice. I already trail Don by a good 40%
and if I stopped to give advice, I would behind 50%!
73/jeff/ac0c
www.ac0c.com
alpha-charlie-zero-charlie
-----Original Message-----
From: F.R. Ashley
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 4:22 PM
To: Jeff Blaine ; rtty@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [RTTY] bizarre exchange
Jeff,
I saw several stations, when replying to me, put a period before their
callsign. Such as .WB4M 599 NC. Any idea what that was about?
73 Buddy WB4M
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Blaine
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 2:15 PM
To: rtty@contesting.com
Subject: [RTTY] bizarre exchange
There was one station who replied 599 in text, and then a sequence of
dash-dot (-.-. etc) in his exchange. Wondered if any one else saw that?
Initially I thought I had some UOS or other strangeness but when I ask for a
repeat, he came back with the same thing. Later I got to thinking he was
writing out his state in code. The dash/dot combo worked out to be the
state.
Usual problem of a lot of guys without a space after their exchange. And
what seemed to be a lot more “wide” signals than what I remembered in the CQ
DX. But that CW translated into –/. thing has got to be the weirdest
exchange I’ve seen in a long time.
73/jeff/ac0c
www.ac0c.com
alpha-charlie-zero-charlie
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