> What I did see was people not putting a space at the end of
> your messages so someone would send CQ and I couldn't get their
> callsign:
>
> CQ RU W1XYZRUVMXOONFEONB
Hi Don,
This has been one of my complaints for a long time. I have
adopted a policy of not even responding to them.
Some folks just don't get the message.
Same applies for name, QTH and Gridsquares. They
all need spaces before/after. Completely negates auto capture.
73s de Jim
W5IFP
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rtty-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:rtty-bounces@contesting.com]On
> Behalf Of Don AA5AU
> Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 10:26 AM
> To: RTTY Reflector
> Subject: Re: [RTTY] Dropped last character in transmission during
> RTTYRoundup
>
>
> I didn't notice this at all, but there could be at least one
> explanation for some of this.
>
> SO2R operators will purposely cut off their transmission in
> order to transmit on the other radio. I do this constantly.
> If you watch me CQ, you might find me dropping my signal at any
> time during the message because I don't believe it making
> anyone wait on the other radio for my report. Well, someone
> always has to wait a second or two if there are QSOs occurring
> on both radios at the same time, but I try to keep the delay at
> a bare minimum. RTTY SO2R is at an all-time high right now.
>
>
> What I did see was people not putting a space at the end of
> your messages so someone would send CQ and I couldn't get their
> callsign:
>
> CQ RU W1XYZRUVMXOONFEONB
>
> So I didn't know if it was W1XY or W1XYZ if they weren't in the
> SCP file. Overall, I thought everyone was pretty good and the
> quality of operators is at an all-time high. Probably saw a lot
> of other stuff too but don't remember them.
>
> 73, Don AA5AU
>
>
> >________________________________
> > From: David Levine <david@levinecentral.com>
> >To: RTTY Reflector <rtty@contesting.com>
> >Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 9:50 AM
> >Subject: [RTTY] Dropped last character in transmission during
> RTTY Roundup
> >
> >Didn't notice this mentioned this week, but in my few hours
> operating the
> >RTTY Roundup on Sat & Sun I noticed what seemed to be a few
> operators that
> >were plenty loud, but the last character of each line of their
> macro they
> >were sending was dropped. When I noticed it, I listened
> (watched) a couple
> >of exchanges and it was every single line that the operator
> would send. I
> >then noticed it a few more times with different operators over
> the course
> >of the weekend. It wasn't that their amp cut out so the last
> character was
> >sent "barefoot" but it just wasn't sending.
> >
> >With it being noticeable to me in the short time I operated, I was
> >wondering if anyone else noticed? And was there some systemic
> problem in a
> >recently updated version of some popular logging program that
> was causing
> >it? I never noticed it before this weekend.
> >
> >73,
> >K2DSL - David
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