[RTTY] No more contesting by AA6TY

[DJ3IW Goetz]

W7WW
sounds better to me.

73 de Goetz
dj3iw@t-online.de
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Hill AA5AU" <aa5au@bellsouth.net>
To: "Kok Chen" <chen@mac.com>; <rtty@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 12:24 AM
Subject: Re: [RTTY] No more contesting by AA6TY


> My guess is W7AY!
> 
> Don AA5AU
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Kok Chen" <chen@mac.com>
> To: <rtty@contesting.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 3:06 PM
> Subject: [RTTY] No more contesting by AA6TY
> 
> 
> > OK, folks, you won't hear AA6TY on during contests anymore.
> > 
> > No, it is not because of SO2R.  It is not because of Zone 17.   It is
> > not because scores are not published on the web.  It is not even
> > because I never win any contest.
> > 
> > If you remember, a couple of weeks ago I 'd asked whether
> > I get points taken off if I used AA6TY/7 and the other end did not
> > log the portable call correctly?
> > 
> > I'd also mentioned that there were no good 7-land calls available,
> > or I would just get a vanity callsign.
> > 
> > Whereupon, Ed K4SB wrote me to ask what I considered a
> > "good" call to be :-).
> > 
> > Anyway, with lots of hand-holding from K4SB, we applied for a new
> > call which the FCC just granted this morning (thanks for the help, Ed!)
> > 
> > By pure coincidence,  if you take the intersymbol spaces away, the
> > new call has almost the same Morse code sequence as the old call.
> > A single dot changed into a dash.
> > 
> > old call: dit dah dit dah dah dit dit dit dit dah dah dit dah dah
> > new call: dit dah dah dah dah dit dit dit dit dah dah dit dah dah
> > 
> > On diddles, it is one whole character shorter.  Don't worry,
> > I'll make up for it by sending 599 a few more times.
> > 
> > See everyone on ANARTS! (At least on Saturday, anyway.)
> > 
> > 73
> > Chen, ex-AA6TY
> > 
> > 
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