How contesters react. Apparently there's an RTTY contest going on. So I hear someone calling CQ and answer them. (Callsign withheld) When I asked them "what number?", their response was "Just give me
There's no excuse for that, but they had also been going at it for over 12 hours straight and some don't manage their time and energy well. I apologize for the louts. Dick -- Dick Flanagan K7VC dick@
Perhaps they should have done 1 minuet of research and found out what contest it was? Then sent the appropriate exchange? Or do we have to do that for them too? (Tell them which contest it is and wha
(Tell them which contest it is and what the exchange is) Yes. 73 de Bob - KØRC in MN _______________________________________________ RTTY mailing list RTTY@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/
What we have to do is to be well behaved in our discourse. While that kind of language ("damn number") may be allowed in the more relaxed FCC standards of the day, it's a long way from gentlemanly co
Author: "Kevin H. Phillips" <kh-phillips@9-5usa.org>
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 11:01:13 -0600 (CST)
the QSO. No mess, no fuss. In other words, ignore the person (?) or am I misunderstanding? My question is: is this more gentlemanly behavior? For me, the issue is not only the language but the overa
Was the station calling 'CQ WPX' or 'CQ contest'? I'm sure they weren't just calling a general 'CQ'. That should let you know that it is a contest going on. Then Google 'WPX RTTY' and see what the ru
Oops, hit <send> to quick :-) Was going to add 'But, the right thing to do would be explain the rules and invite the guy to get on and make some more Q's.' 73 Tom W7WHY ______________________________
Kevin, It's a compromise between maintaining a Q rate - after all, the point of the contest is competition and educating the uninformed is not a primary objective. Ignoring the guy is certainly more
Cut me a break. This isn't that tough, guys. "Just give me a darn number" "wpx test serial nr start 001" Same exact amount of characters. This is not in the tradition of RTTY nor RTTY contesting, ju
Hummm! Back in the Green Keys Days, I had a two headed TD on a Model 28ASR: CQ looped on one when running and the other was used to respond which is equivalent to today's type ahead buffer. When S&P,
The presumption seems that the person understood that it was a contest QSO and had at least some interest in the contest. But perhaps not. Someone hearing a DXpedition such as ZL8X may just call beca
During one of my S&P sessions, I happened across a KP4 who was just doing "normal" RTTY, i.e., not in the contest. In haste I answered his CQ and was embarassed that I was not equipped for a typical
I ran into the same thing. When he sent just 599 I suddenly realized that he had sent CQ DX and not CQ WPX (or similar) so I quickly switched to straight keyboard to chat. He was nice enough to send
Give him a 001, say tu and move on. Everybody is happy. Steve KA2KON -- Original Message -- From: "Kevin H. Phillips" <kh-phillips@9-5usa.org> To: "Jeff Blaine" <keepwalking188@yahoo.com> Cc: "Bill"