Even more frustrating, I had one station who almost had his
callsign scroll entirely off of my screen!! I can handle a
few extra dots (not sure what's up with that either)
but I hate chasing a callsign!
Phil
KL8DX
--- On Sun, 6/15/08, Vladimir Sidorov <vs_otw@rogers.com> wrote:
> From: Vladimir Sidorov <vs_otw@rogers.com>
> Subject: Re: [RTTY] ANARTS Macros
> To: "RTTY Reflector" <rtty@contesting.com>
> Date: Sunday, June 15, 2008, 10:33 AM
> > While running in CQ mode in the ANARTS contest, I
> noticed several
> > stations starting their reports with a string of
> "....." dots. What's
> > with the ....dots?
> >
>
> To make a long story short, the string of dots is waste of
> time. The longer
> the string is, the more time is wasted for the both
> parties.
>
>
> > Also, noticed a DX station calling CQ DX CQ DX and he
> was not
> > a JA. What is not DX to a DX station?
> >
>
> Normally the "CQ DX" means a call to stations in
> other continents. It is
> strictly followed at least in Europe. If a European station
> calls CQ DX, the
> operator is pretty sure, he will not be called by another
> European.
> Unfortunatelly the CQ DX call is pretty meaningless in NA.
>
> 73,
> Vladimir VE3IAE
>
> ---
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>
>
>
> > Dick AA5VU
> >
> >
> >
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