[CQ-Contest] World Wide Digi DX Contest Results

[Stan Zawrotny]

<<BTW I thought RTTY was a digital mode.>>

Yep, it is. I just use "digital" instead of the longer "other digital"
phrase.

And, since you brought it up, isn't CW digital? Many call it the original
digital. As a matter of fact, I can work a CW contest using MRP-40 to
decode CW and send responses -- just like MMTY with RTTY (and other modes
using macros). So, what we have is digital and analog voice. Whoa, wait a
minute. We have different forms of voice, including digital.

And many of us worked a couple of ops in recent SSB contests who were using
voice macros that were fed by voice recognition software. They could
completely automate a voice QSO. What do we do about them?

I'm going back to bed ;-)

73,
___________________
Stan Zawrotny, K4SBZ

Real radio bounces off the sky.



On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 9:33 AM <john at kk9a.com> wrote:

> If Ft4 is faster than RTTY why did all of the RU winners make so few
> FTx(so called digital) QSOs?
>
> BTW I thought RTTY was a digital mode.
>
> John KK9A  (W4AAA in 2020 Roundup - 100% RTTY QSOs)
>
>
>
> Stanley Zawrotny k4sbz wrote:
>
> Ed,
>
> I am both a RTTY contester and a digital contester. I operated in the
> ARRL RTTY Contest using FT4. I found that FT4 was faster than RTTY
> using S&P because I didn’t have to wait as long at the pileups. I did
> try RTTY S&P and got bored watching the screen while the station gave
> his report to a contact, the contact replied and finally the station
> sent a TU QRZ. Then I had a chance to.....wait for it....MOUSE CLICK
> on the macro that sends my callsign. If he replied to someone else, I
> had to.....yep......WATCH THE SCREEN while he finished that QSO. Then
> I would jump up and press F4 again to send my call.
>
> Oh, you don’t do S&P, you run. That means that you MOUSE CLICK (or
> press a function key) to send CQ, MOUSE CLICK on a call, MOUSE CLICK
> on the Exchange macro, watch the screen, execute the TU QRZ macro and
> watch the screen to see who is next. Or do you use call stacking to
> make that step more automatic?  Since you are running, the calls all
> come to you. You don’t have to SEARCH for them or time your call to
> them to try to beat out the other guys. Tell me, Ed, how much fun it
> that?
>
> When I use FT8/FT4, I use a combination of running and S&P. I
> constantly watch the decoding panel, looking for someone who is saying
> 73 so I can call him before he needs to send a CQ. That beats out the
> guys who only call someone who is calling CQ. I watch for others who
> are giving their exchange to see if I need their multiplier and call
> them when they send their 73.
>
> WSJT-X has a check box so that you can only see stations calling CQ.
> Anyone that uses it is a fool. Whether you are contesting or DXing,
> there is much more to be gained by watching exchanges being made and
> taking advantage of the information revealed.
>
> No, I don’t sit blankly watching the screen. I actively go after my
> Qs, running only when there are no new gems for me to work.
>
> Anyone who makes comments about how boring digital is has not learned
> how to skillfully operate in that mode.
>
> BTW, FT8/FT4 were designed using RTTY contesting as a template.
> Hearing such comments for a RTTY contester amazes me.
>
> Stan, K4SBZ
>
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