The CRLF is very frustrating for those trying to click on the callsign and
having to chase it around the window. Please do not use!
73
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Neal Campbell
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On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 9:17 PM, Lee Sawkins <ve7cc@shaw.ca> wrote:
> Starting your call macros with a couple of spaces does as well as <CR><LF>
> and has he added benefit of not causing the text to scroll down the screen
> if you press your callsign button several times. All macros should start
> with something other than a printable character as many times they get
> tagged onto garbage characters and do not get decoded as intended. Sending
> your callsign twice with no leading and ending non printing characters will
> result in no callsign being decoded without extra characters. This slows
> things down as the receiving op has to manually enter your call with the
> keyboard.
>
> Lee
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Subich, W4TV" <lists@subich.com>
> To: <rtty@contesting.com>
> Sent: Monday, September 29, 2014 12:29 PM
> Subject: Re: [RTTY] Getting spotted by RTTY skimmers
>
>
>
>
> > I did get spotted multiple times while S&Ping, but I think that was a
> > function of being fast on the draw, so that the skimmers could likely
> > have seen " CQ KA0XTT KA0XTT CQ N1EN N1EN N1EN "
>
> Start your macros with <CR><LF> .... that will make sure you don't get
> picked up with the trailing CW or TEST from the previous station.
>
> 73,
>
> ... Joe, W4TV
>
>
> On 2014-09-29 3:09 PM, Michael Adams wrote:
>
>> There are notes in the second section of
>> http://wz7i.com/cw-skimmer/rtty-skimmer.html
>>
>> The primary trick is to leave trailing whitespace at the end of the
>> over. I used "TEST N1EN N1EN CQ " («note the space) and "TU N1EN CQ
>> " («again, the space) and had almost no problems getting picked up.
>>
>> I did get spotted multiple times while S&Ping, but I think that was a
>> function of being fast on the draw, so that the skimmers could likely
>> have seen " CQ KA0XTT KA0XTT CQ N1EN N1EN N1EN " A few times, the
>> S&P spots even came through tagged as "skimqsy" or "skimvalid" in the
>> CT1BOH logic.
>>
>> I apparently need to learn patience. :)
>>
>> I do think that the smaller number of RTTY skimmers online, and the
>> challenges of decoding RTTY vs. CW probably contribute to the reduced
>> likelihood of getting spotted by a RTTY skimmer versus a CW skimmer,
>> especially on 80.
>>
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