Like many others (just looking at IW1AYD's very good post mentioning macros for
useful exchanges, he's got it right!) I sometimes get a little frustrated
asking for fills.
If I ask "NR AGN NR AGN NR AGN NR AGN", I would like the guy on the other end
to realize that I don't need the 599 repeated again. I don't need my call
repeated again. What I need is for him to send the serial number - the one
variable part of the exchange I need to get credit for the QSO - to me MULTIPLE
TIMES so I can get a good print and beyond that a second print to verify things
because the conditions are so marginal.
At that point I've already looked at your signal in multiple decoder windows.
I've looked at it both shifted and unshifted. And I couldn't put together
serial.
So if I ask "NR AGN NR AGN NR AGN NR AGN" please realize that I want you to
send the number at least 4 times. Sending it 6 times wouldn't hurt either.
Having a macro set up to do this efficiently - i.e. send me the serial without
sending your call, without sending my call, without sending "GOOD MORNING
TIMOTHY" and 599 each time - would be best. But I would like you to go into
manual keying if necessary to do this all efficiently. I don't want to waste
your time getting the fill, I want you to send it to me the most efficient way
possible. I would suggest a "superfill" macro key that sends the variable
information - like serials - repeatedly, with no repeat necessary for 599 or
calls or anything else, if you do not like to do manual keying in a test.
If you send me the serial 4 times or 6 times, and no single one prints cleanly
on my end, I will almost always be able to cross-correlate all your repeats
into a "believable serial number" such that I don't need to ask for a fill
again.
This is not a problem unique to RTTY, I also had it in spades on CW on the low
bands in the summer. E.g. WAE CW this past summer, there is a serial I need to
copy, but horrendous storm noise on 80M in particular mean that if I ask NR NR
NR NR that I do not want you to send me the number once, I need you to send it
multiple times. I do not need you to send 5NN. I do not want you to do wild
speed CW changeups. I do not need you to send your call. I do not need you to
send my call. I need the serial, because I'm having a very hard time copying
it, and I need to copy it. WAE CW this past summer, I had huge problems copying
even the biggest signal EU megastations on 80M. I contrast that sharply with
80M in the RTTY RU - 80M was pristine and a huge success for me. Oh, 80M was so
good. Well many other bands were good too! But I love 80M when it's pristine
like it was in RTTY RU.
Tim N3QE
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