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Re: [RTTY] RTTY Contest Operating

To: <ed@w0yk.com>, "'RTTY Reflector'" <rtty@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [RTTY] RTTY Contest Operating
From: "Jeff AC0C" <keepwalking188@ac0c.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 13:52:58 -0600
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I can see Bill's point. Do it once with what is clearly overkill but then you can be sure it's done.

I don’t' have to send repeats too much and in that case, I find 3x on the resend of the exchange to work good for me. But I don't have any hard data - it just seems like I moved to 3x from 2x a while back because I had to repeat the 2x a couple of times too many. For ed, who generally has a 6-digit exchange from running 100K Q's each contest, keeping the repeat count low avoids a 60-second long transmission cycle (ha ha).

I wonder what Don AA5AU has for repeat count? He's generally running LP and does not have Ed's favored QTH so his experience may be closer to what the average guy would encounter.

73/jeff/ac0c
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-----Original Message----- From: Ed Muns
Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2016 1:45 PM
To: 'RTTY Reflector'
Subject: Re: [RTTY] RTTY Contest Operating

If so, then why are you sending a fixed length of 6 serial number repeats.
Vary the number of repeats, based on your best estimate of the current QSO
situation.  Experiment and have your contest within a contest.  ;>)

Ed W0YK
____________________________________________________

Bill W6WRT wrote:
I realize there is no absolute best macro format for
everybody in all circumstances.  For me, experimenting with macros is
like a contest within a contest.  Just part of the fun.

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