maybe there could be on “word” that the consensus agrees on to use at the end,
and that word could be eliminated from the ini file ?????
> On 3/24/2016 12:14:18 PM, Alex, VE3NEA (alshovk@dxatlas.com) wrote:
> > RTTY Skimmer Server treats all CQ words listed in the Contests.ini file
> > equally. For example, for the BARTG contest these
> keywords are: CQ, TEST, BARTG, BG, QRZ. Replacing one of these keywords with
> another in your message will not improve the
> accuracy in any way.
>
> 73 Alex VE3NEA
>
>
>
> On 2016-03-24 11:53, Don AA5AU wrote:
> > Good points except that RTTY contesters have been adding CQ at the end of
> > their CQ messages for many years now and it's more the norm now than not. I
> > wouldn't be against adding QRZ at the end instead of CQ. The point is that
> > someone tuning across a signal sees someone callsign once or twice and you
> > don't know if that station is calling someone or calling CQ. By placing CQ
> > (or QRZ) at the end, you know right away what's going and no need to wait
> > and continue listening (time wasted).
> > Since Alex has weighed in that adding an extra space at the end does will
> > not significantly impact the error rate, the question is now...
> > Does adding QRZ instead of CQ at the end of a message reduce the error rate?
> > Don AA5AU
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