I don't get the nod-off - but my affliction is a sort of mental thousand
yard glare that last for a minute, typically occurring on the far end of the
contest as my body is telling my caffeine soaked brain that I really should
stop this nonsense and assume a horizontal position like other sane humans.
Any time I see a slow reply, I just figure the guy has the same sort's of
issues that I'm having. Like correcting call signs, or to get my cursor
moved to the state because I just dumped the guy's name into the state
column or a lot of other keyboard/mouse/mental gymnastic failures. The
lower the band, the worse the prop, the more QRM, the longer into the
contest it is - the worse it becomes. I am pretty sure that the other guy
is not choosing to make me wait just for the heck of it.
If all excuses are to be declared illegitimate - then I would expect a
fellow's going to have a pretty poor contest experience just about every
time out.
73/jeff/ac0c
www.ac0c.com
alpha-charlie-zero-charlie
-----Original Message-----
From: bill
Sent: Monday, July 20, 2015 12:30 PM
To: rtty@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Wait...
And don't forget the possibility that an old and dumb person (i.e. ME)
might nod off.
Been dere and done dat!
On 2015-07-20 11:54 AM, Dick Wilson wrote:
Have to agree with Shelby.
Often I would wait several seconds for an ack
of confirm of a Q.
Granted, some of us might be getting to an age
where reflexes are not as quick, some might be
expecting a longer exchange, the point remains
we are all trying to make as many Qs in the time
allotted as possible.
Thanks for the Qs...73,
Dick K6LRN
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