All,
What I want from you guys is for you to recognise and pick up my callsign,
so if I am one of 20,000 hams or 2,000 hams, it bothers me not. Just
listen carefully for my weak signal when I call CQ, most of you pick me up
when I reply to YOUR cq call - what am I doing wrong - Hi - Ha -Ha
Best regards from John M0BEX ( trying his best to contact all you big gun
RTTY Ops ).
73
de John
----- Original Message -----
From: "WA9ALS - John" <wa9als@1umc.net>
To: "WriteLog Reflector" <Writelog@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 7:29 PM
Subject: Re: [Writelog] RTTY Callsign Database Offer
> > The callsigns are from stations worked in RTTY contests for many
> > years and are an accumulation of lists generated by others, callsigns
from
> > major contest log checkers and my own RTTY contest logs. The file is
> > regularly checked by Ed, K4SB, against the FCC database and old USA
> > calls are removed. The present file contains 21,359 callsigns. Because
> of
> > the size of the file, it may bog down some DOS programs. Use at your
> > own risk.
>
> Don is very generous to offer this file up. What interests me and also
> bothers me a little is didn't we decide awhile back that there are only
> about 2000-3000 RTTY contesters at the most? So if Don's calls are all
from
> RTTY contesters, there must be an awfully lot of skeletons in there?? I
see
> Don is offering it up to numerous reflectors, including CD Contest, so
this
> file must also have SSB and CW contesters' calls in it too?
>
> It seems like what we would want for a given RTTY contest is a svelt,
> up-to-date file of RTTY [only]contesters? As Don mentioned, ESPECIALLY
for
> those using those old things with those long black slots,CW-capable LPT
> ports, and 2 serial ports! ;-)) Just curious - Why would we want those
> "other" 20,000 calls?
>
>
>
>
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