After every contest we always see all the things that others did
wrong. None of them are new if you have at least one RTTY RU under
your belt. What I would like to see is things that you noticed that
were good that maybe you were not doing and are going to try. During
this years contest I saw two things that I am going to try next year.
The first one is to send out a space or two before I allow my radio to
go back into receive. I did not realize the impact that the space has
at the end of the micro. I started to notice that some stations that
called me I could copy the call sign two times with no problem as the
garbage characters were spaced away from the last letter of the call.
On others the trash was right next to the last letter in the call and I
would get something like KH6JM KH6JMGdEdl. Now which call was correct
the KH6JM or the KH6JMG. If both are in the master call data base they
are going to both show up as good. Nothing to do but as for a repeat of
the call and lost time. I changed my micro during the contest and I did
not have any request for a repeat of my call. I hope I am correct about
this space deal if not I am sure someone is going to let me know.
The other thing I took notice of were the stations that were sending the
other stations call at the front of the report and their call at the
end. What made this very useful was when I was going around the band
looking for new stations I did not have to sit and wait until the whole
exchange took place to find out that I was waiting on a station I had
already worked. If the run station was sending the report I saw AB0LR
(in needed color) 599 CO CO K0ZU (in the dupe color). If the S&P
stations was sending the report it would show K0ZU (in dupe color) 599
CO CO AB0LR (in needed color). Sometimes both call would be in the
dupe color. This would be a good time saver over the course of the
contest. If all you see is 599 AL AL you have to wait until the run
station sends his TU and call to see if you need him/her.
Did anyone else find anything good and interesting that you would like
us all to see?
Steve
KT0DX
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