It is certainly your call (no pun intended) on how you would like to
format your macros, but I want the RUN station to see my call first as
his call was established during the CQ. Keep in mind if several
stations are calling him/her at once then he will see my call first and
not his own and then mine. He is going to work the first callsign
he/she sees. I do not believe you would send the callsign of the rare
DX station when trying to break through the pileup.
Rich
On 2/19/2016 7:06 AM, Rich Cariello wrote:
Although a QSO may take a few seconds longer to make the request for repeats
seem to be much lower. I find a more solid exchange when sending my
information 3 times. Both in my CQ's and Replies. I also follow the format that
I use working a CW contact starting with the other stations call sign and
ending my transmission with a DE AA2MF my call sign. I feel much more confident
of the QSO being correct this way. I include the DE as I understand it helps
the logging software to pick out my call sign from the RTTY TEXT on the screen.
I use MMTTY which has served me very well over the years doing RTTY. There are
other decoder programs that might possibly not require the third entry but this
combination has been working for me.
Rich AA2MF
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On Feb 17, 2016, at 15:28, David Tanks via RTTY <rtty@contesting.com> wrote:
Hello all. I have a couple of pet peeves to voice:
1. Some operators do not send the RST report that is required of some, not all,
contests. I work them anyway, even though they are clearly breaking the rules
to save milliseconds off of each contact
The 2016 CQ World-Wide WPX RTTY Contest
February 13-14, 2016
" IV. CONTEST EXCHANGE: RST report plus a progressive contact serial number starting
with 001 for the first contact. Note: Multi-Two and Multi-Unlimited entrants use separate
serial number sequences on each band. ".
2. Sometimes, there is an extended time period from when I send my call to a running
station to the time that he sends my call with the report; before he starts sending the
report, I have figured he hasn't heard me and send my call again. When the software
finishes, I hear the running station sending a report; however, they have not set up
their exchange to send the caller's call at the end of it, so all I see on my screen is
" 599 123 123 " . Now, is he replying to me, or has someone snuck in there
with me? Who knows? All I can do is stand by until the running station again sends the
exchange, with the calling station's call displayed at the beginning. It seems a waste of
time to not include the calling stations's call at the end of the exchange.
3. With excellent band conditions and signal strengths, an exchange of " AD4TJ 599
123 " may be sufficient. However, how many timjes does that happen? If just a little
something interferes, then the serial number only being sent once is not enough. And, at
that, sometimes they don't even send my call, just 599 123. Are they answering me, or
someone else?
I would appreciate hearing from the experienced RTTY contestors on what they
think is proper, concerning these items.
73, David AD4TJ
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