The use of "DE" would be a mess, especially for the people living in DE.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Subich, W4TV
Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2016 12:51 PM
To: rtty@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Waterfall and CQ conundrum
If CQ'ing stations want to put the letters CQ at the end of their
CQ message, they should consider changing to "CQ{period}" That is
“CQ.”
CQ<period> requires *four characters* the same as TEST because of the
need to shift to FIGS for the period. If you are going to use "CQ."
there is no advantage over TEST - it takes the same 330 ms longer than
CQ each time.
I'll leave it to the purists to argue whether 1 second for three CQs
is more effective than losing a QSO (or needing to call CQ again)
because someone tunes past and does not hear CQ ... or losing a run
frequency because someone does not hear CQ and assumes you are
leaving it.
The other solution is to put DE back in the CQ messages and trigger
CQ detection *only* when hearing CQ DE W1LID or QRZ DE W1LID, etc.
That will assure that those calls following W1LID CQ without a
leading CR/LF do not trigger the CQ detection.
73,
... Joe, W4TV
On 3/27/2016 1:22 PM, Dave Hachadorian wrote:
Alex, VE3NEA, is the guy who writes the Skimmer code.
He has made two postings in this thread, which, if I understand them
correctly, are as follows:
If CQ'ing stations want to put the letters CQ at the end of their CQ
message, they should consider changing to "CQ{period}" That is “CQ.”
Alex says the program will ignore that three-character string.
Stations who are S&P’ing should send a CR/LF before their call sign. Alex
says that would be helpful.
Alex is also working on other methods to improve the CQ/S&P uncertainty.
Dave Hachadorian, K6LL
Yuma, AZ
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Rinehart via RTTY
Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2016 8:00 AM
To: rtty@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Waterfall and CQ conundrum
Ok - so don't use QRZ - got that - Test is too long - got that too. So,
if we don't use CQ and Test is too long, what is the alternative other
than just waiting for the Skimmer folks to figure it out?
I don't use Skimmer myself but I can appreciate it's value. Whether or
not a person uses Skimmer isn't the issue if I understand it right. It's
this thing of Skimmer picking up CQ just in front of a S&P'ers callsign
and then posting that on the cluster as someone's Run frequency when
actually that callsign should only be associated with the S&P'er. Am I
still confused? or just Dense! I Do want to operate correctly even
though I am just a Little Pistol providing contacts for the Big Boys! I
am posting this because there are, no doubt, lots of others out there
reading this who are just too shy to say anything. de W4PJW
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