I'm more of a CW and SSB contester than RTTY these days, but Don and
Bill touched on one of my pet peeves of RTTY operating.
W6WRT Sez:
When I'm running, I want to verify two things from the calling station:
1. He's working me and not another station on the frequency that I can't
hear.
and
2. That he has my callsign correct.
Unless the calling station sends my call at some point, how would I
verify the above?
Maybe I've been operating CW too long, but it seems to me that point 1
above is incumbent on you as the runner, and you should not depend on
your callers for this info. Your choice of frequency should be
informed by whether there is someone else there, and one of the skills
of a contester on any mode is the ability to tell, either by sound or
by how out of synch the respondents are to your calls that someone
within your skip zone that you can't hear is also on your frequency.
Point 2 above, on the other hand, is not incumbent on me as the runner
at all. Someone calls in because they either printed or thought they
printed WP3C instead of WF3C? In the words of snarky bosses
everywhere, that doesn't sound like a "me" problem. That sounds like a
"you/them" problem.. That shows up on their LCR, not mine. As long as
I'm IDing every QSO and obeying the relevant FCC rules, I don't lose
any sleep about whether everyone who called me copied my callsign and
exchange correctly. If they didn't ask for a repeat, then I figure
they got it.
73,
Chris wf3c
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Chris Plumblee
407.494.5155
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