If they would allow RTTY, it would be perfect. Bill W6WRT _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinf
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: On Sat, 16 Jun 2007 10:17:24 -0500, Jim George <n3bb@mindspring.com> wrote: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- Ok, then disallow CW. :-) Seriously, except for 40 meters, CW and RTTY normally use d
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: On Sat, 16 Jun 2007 16:01:03 -0400, "hank k8dd" <k8dd@arrl.net> wrote: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- You don't need to "put" RTTY anywhere. CW and RTTY have a nearly identical bandwidth and a
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: On Sat, 16 Jun 2007 17:10:07 +0000, Steve Harrison <k0xp@dandy.net> wrote: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- That is a problem of scheduling, not of modes. CW and RTTY have essentially the same b
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: On Sat, 16 Jun 2007 23:46:53 -0500, "Dale Martin" <kg5u@hal-pc.org> wrote: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- Nonsense. In my experience, RTTY operators are by far the most courteous on the air. I
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: On Sun, 17 Jun 2007 22:05:16 -0500, Jim George <n3bb@mindspring.com> wrote: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- With its 170 Hz shift, including sidebands, RTY occupies about 250-300 Hz of spectrum
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- Saving a few characters is more beneficial than you might think. For example, in a 48 hour contest there are 172800 seconds. If you call CQ every ten seconds, th
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 00:21:17 +0000, Steve Harrison <k0xp@dandy.net> wrote: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- More nonsense. If the S&P stations "smear all around the CQer" as you say, they will s
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- Lighten up, Bill. This is just an example and there is nothing fallacious about it. Put in any number of CQs and QSOs you like, the principle still stands. Save
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:32:14 -0400, "hank k8dd" <k8dd@arrl.net> wrote: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- That does make me wonder. I have always assumed that RTTY ops used a speaker or earphones
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:03:08 -0400 (GMT-04:00), sawyered@earthlink.net wrote: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- That would be ok by me. Please do the same to the CW lids who deliberately jam RTTY
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- Correct. It's as much art as science. Bill W6WRT _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.c
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- AFC is fine if the S&P station is also using the "NET" function with AFSK. Some beginning RTTY'ers use AFC with FSK and no NET and that leads to an off-frequency
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 08:26:19 -0400, Pete Smith <n4zr@contesting.com> wrote: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- I have several of the little things and my experience is about the same. The real noi
The title for this weekend's RTTY contest is the DL-DX contest. I believe however, that the hyphen should not be used in your CQ macro because it requires a FIGS character before the hyphen and a LTR
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 02:41:13 -0000, DJ3IW Götz <goetzlin@t-online.de> wrote: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- Thank you for your comment, Goetz. My original message was intended as a mini-tu
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- That works too. Many folks put the title of the contest in their CQ macro and those are the ones I was trying to reach. If I was really a fanatic about this I wo
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- You can do essentially the same thing by just working split, beginning with TX and RX on the same frequency. I do it all the time. Sometimes I lock the TX, somet
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- The purpose of "leveling the playing field" is to increase competition between participants. In radio contesting it can never be made perfectly level although WR
The only way to create a "level playing field" between different parts of the world would be with a handicap system, and I strongly doubt you could ever get agreement on how to do that. In the meanti