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Subject: [CQ-Contest] contesting in the 21st century
From: gdo@aloft.micro.lucent.com (Glenn D. O'Donnell)
Date: Thu Jul 24 12:56:38 1997
Dialogue between K3PP (> >) and K1TTT (>):

> >     2. The deciphering of the incoming QSO information should ONLY be
> >        performed by the gray matter between the ears of the operator.
> 
> kind of tough even at 60wpm rtty.  i can pretty much recognize the
> sound of 'ryryryry' but thats about it.

Yes there is electronic aparatus actually decoding the signals, but the
task of pulling the QSO information out of the hash should still be relegated
to our brains.

> > If it's any consolation to Cornelius and others, my station is still
> > fairly
> > low-tech.  Please work me in any contest.  I guarantee I will live by
> > the
> > two rules I outlined above.
> 
> too bad, guess we'll never see you in rtty contests then.

You guess wrong.  :-)  I like RTTY contests.  I don't do all that well, but
I enjoy them nevertheless, HI!  My PK-232 will print the stuff out for me
but I still have to pull "N2KJM" and "599 NJ" out of:

   KEW3ND H3PP;J NDQX DE N2$JM N2K&MRSDWKJM 599 NLW#299 NJ QU$N* EWQSW(

This is where things like DSP filtering help, but ultimately human
translation is needed.

I still do RTTY contests the old-fashioned, tedious way.  I have to try the
WF1B software to >>> AID <<< my RTTY contesting efforts.
                     ^^^

Best 73 de Glenn, K3PP ... &DB4EJ 1#XHS:O}K 4HG4I$1JHD-DHEKWI QH%SRM1,H KNW


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