You are cooking right along in a RTTY contest, working station after station, but your rate isn't so hot? How come you aren't working rates like you do on CW and SSB? Maybe you're sending too many no
Great work Hank! 73/jeff/ac0c www.ac0c.com alpha-charlie-zero-charlie You are cooking right along in a RTTY contest, working station after station, but your rate isn't so hot? How come you aren't wor
Awesome, Hank!! A gold mine of contest wisdom. I think I speak for the whole contest community when I say a huge THANK YOU!! 73, Bill W6WRT _______________________________________________ RTTY mailin
Rather than string together varying keypresses, in CQ WW I simply edited the macros to match the current conditions. As a noob, I also edited to remove unnecessary info from the starting macros as c
Stringing "together varying keypresses" is the exception, not the norm. Hank's point is that by having modular messages, one can create the appropriate message in an out-of-ordinary situation without
While I agree that this is valuable information, most everyone "in" the contest community is already aware of it? How to disseminate it to those NOT "in" the contest community, is my question? C'Ya,
With all due respect, if I may play the devil's advocate... Articles like this have been around since the days when we all (well most of us anyway) used WF1B on our old DOS machines. Back then, the a
-- ORIGINAL MESSAGE --(may be snipped) REPLY: And that can be the difference between first place and not first place. To each his own. 73, Bill W6WRT _______________________________________________ R
Bill, you are very right. A 2 second savings on a hard and long contest run (maybe 2800 Q?) would be more than 1.5 hour saved. 73/jeff/ac0c www.ac0c.com alpha-charlie-zero-charlie -- ORIGINAL MESSAGE
But the guys who run those kinds of scores have already figured this stuff out! --Original Message-- REPLY: And that can be the difference between first place and not first place. To each his own. 73
-- ORIGINAL MESSAGE --(may be snipped) REPLY: And that's why they have those kinds of scores. :-) 73, Bill W6WRT _______________________________________________ RTTY mailing list RTTY@contesting.com
It still is, I was pleasantly surprised a few times today. I wonder how I get that into MMTTY. No. It's like a dance and your partner knows the steps. When my partner misstepped, it generally cost a
I could have used about 10 more minutes in the ARRL RU to work 2-3 more multipliers! Lost first place in the Great Lakes Division because of fewer mults. Of course a little propagation on 10 meters w
I worked a number of stations in CQWW RTTY that sent my callsign four times during the QSO and their section and state only once. I am pretty aware of the callsign that I was using but I have no idea