I felt the same way when they put SSB into the radios...
73 de Bob - KØRC in MN
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On 2/10/2013 8:22 PM, Gary AL9A wrote:
So that's it! I worked several stations in the WPX RTTY that had a
weird pace to the diddles being sent . It was sort of like a surge
that would turn on and then suddenly turn off again. Several
characters, pause, some more characters, pause then a few more,
pause. What a PITA to listen to! Why would anyone in their right mind
want to consider using paddles to send diddles instead of a keyboard?
*It may serve a purpose in an emergency situation where no keyboard is
available, but in a contest it is less than useless.* Just because
the radio has some ridiculous functionality put into the rig by the
marketing department doesn't mean the owner has to use it!
73,
Gary AL9A
----- Original Message ----- From: "Kok Chen" <chen@mac.com>
To: "bill" <bill@w9ol.com>
Cc: <rtty@contesting.com>
Sent: February 10, 2013 4:10 PM
Subject: Re: [RTTY] I had a reply in the contest from a fellow using
cw forrtty
He is probably using a K3, Bill.
In fact, if you think back, was the "9" of your call sign slightly
delayed?
The K3 has this abortion (there is no other way to describe it) where
you place the rig into FSK mode and use a paddle to send RTTY.
(It won't work with a straight key, since the firmware is looking for
the left and right paddle to recognize a character. Won't work in
AFSK either.)
So, a "9" will take longer time to arrive unless the guy is doing 100
WPM on his paddle. And if you listen carefully, what you will hear
is "W<beeep>9OL" because the K3 is stupid enough to wait for the 9 to
finish and does not put out a diddle in the meantime.
If you remember, Phil GU0SUP mentioned some years ago hearing what
sound like slow, stuttery RTTY, but copies at 45.45 baud. That was a K3.
If I were you, I would have sent "SRI, YOU HAVE BROKEN RIG. QRZ W9OL"
73
Chen, W7AY
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