On 1/8/06, A.J.C. <n2ki@amsat.org> wrote:
> - I saw a lot of folks not in tune with the stations they were working. My
> guess is this is a product of software that auto tunes the signal. So why
> bother have to work at improving our skills at properly tuning a station in.
I saw a few stations that clearly had the MMTTY "NET" setting, or
equivalent, enabled and were sliding up and down the band on every
transmission. Yuck!
> This sort of fits in with the whiners over the past few weeks about having
> to deal with dashes. Give me a break! In 10 years of contesting I never
Hardly whining. Folks are trying to convey the most accurate
information with the fewest transmittted characters. Nothing wrong
with that.
I did see "599/STATE/STATE" ... (state deleted to protect the
guilty). N1MM *really* doesn't like slashes but the delete key on my
keyboard seemed to deal with it OK. :-)
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