[RTTY] NIL question
William Boeckenhaupt
ak0a@kc.rr.com
Tue, 7 May 2002 17:47:34 -0500
What you guys have to do is swap places, problem solved.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Turner" <w7ti@dslextreme.com>
To: <RTTY@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 4:59 PM
Subject: Re: [RTTY] NIL question
> On Tue, 07 May 2002 14:31:41 -0700, Kok Chen wrote:
>
> >If the other station logged me as AA6TY instead of
> >AA6TY/7, who gets dinged for it?
>
> _________________________________________________________
>
> I can't answer your question directly, but the best procedure is to
> never allow him to log it wrong. Since I have a 7 call and live in 6
> land, this happens to me all the time.
>
> When a station comes back to me with W7TI (no /6), I simply call him
> again as if I hadn't heard him or hadn't received his exchange. And
> again and again and again if necessary. I NEVER send my exchange or QSL
> TU until he gets it right. Invariably, he will figure it out before
> very many repeats.
>
> Never, ever send your exchange and THEN try to straighten out your call.
> He will have logged it and be gone while you're still vainly calling
> him.
>
> Clumsy, but works for me. :-)
>
> 73, Bill W7TI
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