Dave,
I think the CQ on the end serves two purposes. First, if a S&P station tunes
across a signal and misses the opening CQ he has no way of telling if this
station is calling CQ or just finishing working someone else. The CQ at the end
removes that doubt. Second, I think it so a skimmer can find you sooner. Same
reason as above.
Gary AL9A
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On September 30, 2015, at 3:06 PM, Dave Hachadorian <k6ll.dave@gmail.com> wrote:
Why do RTTY ops even put a "cq" at the end of their cq message?
CW ops never put a CQ at the end (except for a few newbie
converts from RTTY). 45 Baud RTTY is 60 wpm, a lot faster than
contest CW, so it's not like we had to wait so long for the call
sign that we forgot that it was a CQ.
Since RTTY Skimmers are increasingly powerful and popular, and
are getting confused by the cq at the end, maybe it's time to
just drop that final cq.
Dave Hachadorian, K6LL
Yuma, AZ
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