[Mldxcc] CQ WPX RTTY AB1U (W6RKC)

[Rick]

>
>
>     CQWPXRTTY Score Summary Sheet
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>        Start Date : 2012-02-08
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>     CallSign Used : AB1U
>       Operator(s) : W6RKC
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>Operator Category : SINGLE-OP
>              Band : ALL
>             Power : HIGH
>              Mode : RTTY
>  Default Exchange : 001
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>         Club/Team : Northern California Contest Club
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>         Band    QSOs    Pts  WPX
>          3.5      37      86   27
>            7      61     164   42
>           14      18      39   18
>           28       2      2    1
>        Total     118     291   88
>
>             Score : 25,608

Spent most of the weekend turning pine needles into carbon but was 
able to get on for a few hours of S&P during the evenings.

What is the deal with some stations taking so long to reply after 
they call CQ? 8 - 10 -12 or more seconds to respond. It is not 
because they did not receive my call correctly, when they finally do 
come back, everything is correct. A few times, after a delay of 5 or 
6 seconds, I would resend my call, only to find that when returning 
to receive, they were half way through sending their exchange 
information. If I was lucky, I caught the serial number and they did 
send my call again at the end. In a CW contest, a delay of 1 second 
means "resend your call", not , apparently on RTTY. After 
experiencing this a few times, I refrained from resending my call and 
just waited for a response. About 20% of the time, there was a 
request for "AGN?" but 80% of the time they finally just sent the 
exchange. My best guess is that they are  poor SO2R operators. I 
don't know where they can practice it, but it seems that a major RTTY 
contest is not the place.

Exuberantly contesting, I remain, Rick, W6RKC ( not W6RK ).