[Mldxcc] CQ WPX RTTY AB1U (W6RKC)

[Jeff Stai]

hi Rick - Sometimes you get a callsign that is messed up and is not
clickable, or you clicked it and garbage came in as well so you have to
drop everything and go fix it. Sometimes you have to look at the callsign
and piece it together from parts. Or maybe they sneezed or maybe they are
trying to wolf down dinner. Or they had a problem on radio left and ignored
radio right for too long. Or the spouse came in with a question. Or they
just made a mistake. I agree that 8-12 seconds is too long, but sometimes
stuff just happens. And aren't all contests fundamentally a practice
session for the next one? - jeff wk6i

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Rick <ab1u at volcano.net> wrote:

>
> >
> >
> >     CQWPXRTTY Score Summary Sheet
> >
> >        Start Date : 2012-02-08
> >
> >     CallSign Used : AB1U
> >       Operator(s) : W6RKC
> >
> >Operator Category : SINGLE-OP
> >              Band : ALL
> >             Power : HIGH
> >              Mode : RTTY
> >  Default Exchange : 001
> >
> >         Club/Team : Northern California Contest Club
> >
> >         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 ).
>
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