Sorry I haven't fully followed this thread, but was reminded of my old friend
Eddie, G0AZT, with whom I had the pleasure of working
Multi-Single in CQWW RTTY with as V2/G0AZT in 1991 and P40RY in 1992. Eddie
constantly screamed at the radio "WHY ARE YOU SENDING
MY @#$%^&* CALL WHEN I ALREADY KNOW WHAT MY BLOODY CALL IS!!!" He was dead on.
When S&P, there is no reason you should ever have
to send the callsign of the run station you are working. Slows everyone down.
I'm not complaining, just stating the fact. Eddie
was ahead of his time. I miss him.
Just my .02 worth.
73, Don AA5AU
-----Original Message-----
From: rtty-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:rtty-bounces@contesting.com] On
Behalf Of Hank Garretson
Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 9:20 PM
To: RTTY Reflector
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Take Two RTTY Exchange
Hee hee. I swatted a hornets nest with this one. Good discussion.
> My exchange for RTTY Roundup was 599 CA.
> >
> > With 1250 contacts, I got request for state repeat only four times. I
> > haven't run the math, but I'm pretty sure that I came out ahead.
>
> But how do you know your "CA" wasn't garbled into CO, IA, CT, MA or
> whatever?
>
I don't for sure. But I made 623 contacts in the 2011 Roundup. My Log Check
Report says I lost 4 Qs because I copied the other guys' calls incorrectly.
I lost 5 Qs because I copied the other guys' exchanges incorrectly. And, I
lost 2 QSOs because I wasn't in the other guys' logs.
My LCR says only two blokes copied my exchange incorrectly:
14081 RY 2011-01-08 2353 XXXX NV W6SX VA should be CA
7053 RY 2011-01-09 0044 XXXX NJ W6SX VA should be CA
The Nevada station is a friend, so I suspect he just mistyped or was
watching football while contesting.
W6SX sending 599 CA apparently resulted in two guys who submitted logs
miscopying my state. That's considerably less than the eleven contacts I
lost because of my errors.
*The first rule of contesting is to have fun!*
73,
Hank, W6SX
Mammoth Lakes, California
Elevation 8083 feet in John Muir's Range of Light
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