The "Please Copy" message on RTTY sure look strange on my screen!
73 Larry W0ETC
On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 14:13:24 -0500 "Dick Kriss, AA5VU" <aa5vu@arrl.net>
writes:
> Due to a conflict with a wedding I had to pass on Field Day this
> year. When
> we finally got home from the wedding, I decided to give out a few 1D
> STX
> contacts to FD stations.
>
> The cocoaModem software I use for RTTY and PSK does not currently
> support
> logging the FD exchange so I just used the RTTY Roundup template. It
> let me
> keep track of call signs worked by band but only logged them as
> states
> rather the normal FD exchange. This was not a big deal as I will
> not be
> submitting a formal long. The software, including the FB built-in
> dupe
> checker, worked great considering I was using for something it was
> not
> designed to support.
>
> I worked a number of QSO's in the CQ mode using slightly modified
> standard
> contest macros. The first problem I encountered was other 1D home
> stations
> responding to my CQ. I was sending
>
> CQ FD DE AA5VU AA5VU CQ
>
> Rather than taking the time to say 1D stations should not work 1D
> stations
> in FD I just logged the QSO and moved on to the next QSO. I finally
> got
> around the problem by changing my CQ Macro to say
>
> CQ FD DE AA5VU AA5VU 1D CQ
>
> This simple tweak of the macro helped in RTTY but the PKS 1D
> stations still
> responded. Many probably did not read or forgot the rule (4.6)
> about Class
> D Home stations.
>
> The second problem I ran into was many of the FD users (mostly PSK
> operators) are not used to the standard contest RTTY exchange format
> and got
> confused. While in the CQ mode I would end an exchange with
>
> N1ABC QSL ES TNX
> QRZ de AA5VU
>
> and the next station would send his call. My standard report macro
> would
> send
>
> K1ABC 1D STX 1D STX K1ABC
>
> and many did not seem to understand I had acknowledged their call,
> sent
> their report (twice) and had turned it back to them to send my
> report. This
> got so confusing on 40 meter PSK I finally changed the macro to say
>
> K1ABC 1D STX 1D STX K1ABC de AA5VU
>
> and it helped. I tried to avoid using the old "K" but that may have
> helped.
> What RTTY contesters are used to must be a foreign concept to many
> of the FD
> digital participants.
>
> The only problem I had in the S&P mode was responding to a long
> strong CQ FD
> and discovering after he responded that he was alos a 1D. The same
> problem
> I had in the CQ mode. The 1D home stations need to put something in
> their
> CQ macro to let other home stations know they are home stations. The
> purpose
> of the contest is to work the stations in the field, not normal home
> station
> to home station QSOs.
>
> It was fun and good to hear the digital activity from FD
> participants. Maybe
> some of the FD people will get hooked and participate in some of the
> RTTY
> contests. This was my first experience trying to run PSK in the
> contest
> mode. It was fun but some standard exchange examples should be
> included the
> ARRL FD blurb for next year. Many of the user defined PSK macros
> were set up
> to sound like a FD SSB exchange.
>
> TNX to all for the exchanges. I learn something new in each
> contest.
>
> 73 de Dick, AA5VU
>
>
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