There were several stations that gave up on me, because they'd send:
"VA5LF VA5LF DE K " then the rest of my print was junk. I sure hope none of
them were from WY, since that's the only state I missed. Frustrating in either
case.
The other thing I found annoying is how many times I'd get garbled junk, then
no one would send anything for 10 seconds until I sent "AGN? AGN?". That's the
golden opportunity to bust the pileup right there!
73
Sean - VA5LF
On 2013-01-08, at 12:09 AM, BILL ENGLISH <bill@k4fx.net> wrote:
> I found myself saying that about my callsign several times Don. It is
> almost eerie how you will copy that useless info on a weak signal and the
> exchange always drops into the mud...if they would send exch only on
> repeats...... that is right up there with the ones who send their states
> spelled out....does N1MM auto-abbreviate? I never tried clicking on it, I
> just typed in the two letters while waiting on their transmission....
>
> Great contest.
>
> 73 all
>
> Bill K4FX
>
> On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 12:31 AM, Don Hill AA5AU <aa5au@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
>> Eddie, G0AZT, was famous for constantly screaming at the radio during RTTY
>> contests... He was constantly complaining, saying things
>> like "Don't make a meal out of it mate!" when someone would send long
>> buffers during contests. Another one of his famous rants was
>> "I already know my own bloody callsign. Why are you sending it????"
>> Whenever someone starts sending me their rig, grid, etc, during
>> a contest I think of Eddie and say to myself "Don't make a meal out of it
>> mate!".
>>
>> I miss that guy.
>>
>> 73, Don AA5AU
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: RTTY [mailto:rtty-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Doug Faunt
>> N6TQS +1-510-717-1197
>> Sent: Monday, January 07, 2013 11:12 PM
>> To: rtty@contesting.com
>> Subject: Re: [RTTY] Removing line feed at end of contest messages
>>
>> I was on a DXpedition where one of the CW ops ALWAYS talked, very loudly,
>> to the people he was having a QSO with. He was louder
>> than the phone ops, by quite a bit. We had 4 or 5 stations in one small
>> room.
>> 73, doug
>>
>>
>>
>> On 08-Jan-13 01:40, iain macdonnell - N6ML wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Peter Laws <plaws@plaws.net> wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 5:30 PM, iain macdonnell - N6ML <ar@dseven.org>
>> wrote:
>>>>> The "Remove Excess Linefeeds..." option does help a lot, but even a
>>>>> single linefeed (which is not suppressed) can cause a mis-click, and
>>>>> can be quite frustrating.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Ask my wife how many times she heard "Don't make me chase you!"
>>>> coming from the radio room this past weekend.
>>>>
>>>> It's a little thing, but it's annoying.
>>>
>>> Wow, I'm not the only one who tries to talk to RTTY ops through the
>>> screen? Maybe I'm not crazy after all ........ or .........
>>>
>>> ;)
>>>
>>> ~iain / N6ML
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