[CQ-Contest] IARU - Join Us

[Clive Whelan]

Dave. For sure, but only for those ops with experience of CW
operating I think. Sadly many new recruits to RTTY just
don't think in that way. It's always obvious when someone is
monitoring aurally, since their response time is always
faster, just like in a normal CW contest. Equally it's also
obvious when they are not, as they will simply CQ in your
face, when a simple QRZ and retuning would resolve the
signal. After a while , and even for a novice RTTY op like
me, it's possible to detect the pattern of a CQ by ear, and
RYRYRY is easy peasy of course.


73


Clive
GW3NJW

-----Original Message-----
From: cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com]On Behalf Of David
Robbins
K1TTT
Sent: 20 June 2007 22:58
To: cq-contest at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] IARU - Join Us


I have found it to be useful to listen to the rtty.  You can
often diagnose
someone off frequency or inverted faster by ear than the
display.  And you
can coarse tune quicker than by watching the scope with a
little experience.
And it helps to speed the exchange, you can much more
quickly detect the end
of a transmission by ear than on the screen and hit an f-key
to respond
while the waterfall or cross is still catching up...
especially if it's a
pileup or there is qrm.


David Robbins K1TTT
e-mail: mailto:k1ttt at arrl.net
web: http://www.k1ttt.net
AR-Cluster node: 145.69MHz or telnet://dxc.k1ttt.net


> -----Original Message-----
> From: cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:cq-contest-
> bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Bill Turner
> Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 14:24
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] IARU - Join Us
>
> ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
>
> On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:32:14 -0400, "hank  k8dd"
<k8dd at arrl.net>
> wrote:
>
> >Ok .... how about a whole lot don't listen aurally to a
frequency -
> >
> >Not being a RTTY operator, I'd be curious as to how many
really do have
> >their headphones on ..... or their speakers turned on.
> >
> >73    Hank    K8DD
>
> ------------ REPLY FOLLOWS ------------
>
> That does make me wonder. I have always assumed that RTTY
ops used a
> speaker or earphones to find a signal and then some kind
of tuning
> indicator to fine tune it, but I don't have any data.
>
> So I'm going to get some data. I will pose the question on
the RTTY
> reflector and get back to you.
>
> As I said before however, the issue of aural or not is not
germane tot
> this discussion because other signals, CW, RTTY or
anything else are
> clearly visible on the tuning indicator. But I'm curious
anyway.
>
> Bill W6WRT
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