[CQ-Contest] PSE COPY

[Mike Smith VE9AA]

Mike/va3mw, it’s not the EXCHANGE Randy and I are commenting on……it’s when the runner is CQing and being called.

 

ie:

 

me: WPX VE9AA VE9AA CQ

you: VE9AA de VA3MW VA3MW

 

Why would anyone do that? Send your call once, twice, three times. I KNOW my call.

 

This behaviour is not present on CW or SSB.

 

THAT is what we’re talking about….the initial call of a S&P to a Runner.

 

Mike VE9AA

 

 

 

Mike, Coreen & Corey

Keswick Ridge, NB

 

From: Michael Walker [mailto:va3mw at portcredit.net] 
Sent: February 15, 2021 10:04 AM
To: Mike Smith VE9AA
Cc: CQ Contest
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] PSE COPY

 

This is the default N1MM exchange in S&P 

 

F2 Exch,{TX}{ENTER}! {EXCH} {EXCH} {MYCALL} {RX}

 

And, I think it is correct.  I  might have copied your call only once and I am not going to wait around in S&P mode for a few of your cycles of you are run especially since many only send QRZ and not their call.  It isn't as bad as it used to be, but 1 in 10 stations do not send their call with their QRZ message evertime.  There is only a finite number of contacts that can be made.  :)  6 more seconds won't make any difference, except for Mike ve9aa who is reading his email at the same time.  (his words, not mine).

 

It makes sense from both sides.

 

Mike va3mw

 

 

 

 

 

On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 8:51 AM Mike Smith VE9AA <ve9aa at nbnet.nb.ca> wrote:

I swear, Randy was reading my mind. It's almost exactly what I wrote in my
3830 report last night.

Is there a software package out there that this is the default S&P macro for
RTTY?

Pretty sure it's not N1MM+ that has this as a default.



95% of very casual ops won't/don't read this list, so it's up to us to put
those comments in our 3830 reports, here (yes, most won't read it) , our
local clubs, DX clubs, contest clubs etc and inform those just starting out
in contests. WE need to reach out to those writing software, who are amazing
coders, but maybe not contesters, to "fix" this. Grumbling here is great,
but we need to go beyond that.  I operate almost no RTTY (but was on during
'WPX this past weekend), so it's not going to be me

to reach out to the programmers, etc. but I have mentioned this to our local
contest club which has a few newbies.



Remember, if it weren't for the casual ops, newbie and wander-by's, we'd
have very few others to work !



Randy/K5ZD wrote this: "I want to know why RTTY ops always send my call when
they are calling me.  So 

many times I would hear my call print in the clear and then there was QRM
from 

other callers when they were sending their call.

."







CU (all of a sudden!) in the next one.

-Mike VE9AA

Mike, Coreen & Corey

Keswick Ridge, NB



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