Like I said earlier, I haven't sent a "DE" in years in RTTY contests,
but if we ever get Skimmer for RTTY, I promise to start.
Until then, I hope nobody sends DE unless he/she is in Delaware.
Jerry W4UK
At 02:03 PM 1/3/2011, you wrote:
>I can think of two reasons why sending DE can help (regardless of the
>WriteLog behavior). Assume that SO2R is not an issue at this point:
>
>1. By transmitting more (i.e. sending DE rather than not), you're
>increasing the duty cycle of your transmissions (higher % of key-down
>time). This increases the chance that someone tuning by will hear a
>signal and stop to find out who it is.
>
>2. RTTY Skimmer can't be far off. I believe the software looks for a
>DE preceding the callsign of the transmitting station, otherwise that
>station won't be spotted. So send DE if you want to be found.
>
>73 - Jim AD1C
>
>--
>Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreisert@alum.mit.edu>
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