[Fourlanders] VHF Contesting and Digital Modes

[ww8rr]

Yes....this one current "73 both ways" rule has the Europeans, that are not aware of US based ARRL VHF-UHF contesting rules, confused. 
As I worked the ON4KST chat room during my harvesting of 5  432 EME Qs during contest, I constantly was reminding all in my W4NH CQ solicitations that i "need 73 both ways for valid" .
Ron
From my Samsung Galaxy S4

-------- Original message --------
From: John Kludt <johnnykludt at earthlink.net> 
Date: 09/21/2017  1:56 PM  (GMT-05:00) 
To: Sherman Banks <w4atl at shermanbanks.net>, fourlanders at contesting.com 
Subject: Re: [Fourlanders] VHF Contesting and Digital Modes 

Sherman,

This is spot on.  I wish he would have addressed the need for both stations to send "73" as I think that is incorrect especailly in a contest.  He repeated the rule several times: you can't go to the next message till you have received the last message in the sequence.  
I send "RRR"You send "73"If I got your "73" we are done, if not I resend "RRR":Repeat until I get your "73" in which case we are done.Or so it seems to me.

Johnny

-----Original Message-----

From: Sherman Banks 

Sent: Sep 20, 2017 4:12 PM

To: fourlanders at contesting.com

Subject: [Fourlanders] VHF Contesting and Digital Modes



<ZZZ!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
	{font-family:"Cambria Math";
	panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}
@font-face
	{font-family:Calibri;
	panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
	{margin:0in;
	margin-bottom:.0001pt;
	font-size:11.0pt;
	font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;}
a:ZZZlink, span.MsoHyperlink
	{mso-style-priority:99;
	color:#0563C1;
	text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
	{mso-style-priority:99;
	color:#954F72;
	text-decoration:underline;}
span.EmailStyle17
	{mso-style-type:personal-compose;
	font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
	color:windowtext;}
.MsoChpDefault
	{mso-style-type:export-only;
	font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;}
@page WordSection1
	{size:8.5in 11.0in;
	margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}
div.WordSection1
	{page:WordSection1;}
-->




K5QE has written up a primer on using digital modes in VHF contests and it can be found here. https://www.dropbox.com/s/9l5oeiir4inn4x6/Contesting%20and%20Digital%20Modes.doc?dl=0 You will learn about “funny little numbers.”
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.contesting.com/pipermail/fourlanders/attachments/20170921/32e6e07c/attachment.html>