[RTTY] QTC for WAE

[Uli Stolz DJ9XB]

Sorry, my english not good...



Hi,

Ekki made a heavy mistake in the expample in the QTC-traffic
below :
You may send QTCs und received QTCs only from different continents !!!!
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73

Uli, DJ9XB


Ekki Plicht schrieb:
> Am Do November 6 2003 09:16 schrieb David Kearns:
> 
>>As a newbie to RTTY contesting (1 year), can someone
>>give me a simple explanation of what is and what is
>>required for the QTC element of a RTTY contest.
> 
> 
> Basically a QTC is a line of your contest log, which you send to somebody else 
> in the contest, or receive from somebody else (from his or her log of 
> course). A QTC contains the time of QSO (in UT), the call, and the exchange 
> received from that call (just serial, no RST).
> 
> Each log entry may be sent to another station as a QTC only once. So if you 
> have made ten QSOs, you are allowed to send these ten log entries as QTCs to 
> the eleventh (or any later) QSO partner. After that exchange these first ten 
> QSOs can not be used for further QTC traffic. But you can receive as many 
> QTCs as you like.
> 
> The maximum number of QTCs you can exchange with a given station is 10. That 
> QTC traffic can happen all at once (all ten at the same time) or you can 
> exchange smaller numbers of QTC during the contest, but only up to 10 max.
> 
> During contest you announce that you have QTCs to send or you ask if the other 
> station has QTCs for you. The format of this bidding is not standardized, you 
> will see people saying "i have 10 QTC QRV?" or similiar. If you are ready you 
> answer with "QRV de G0HVS" or "QRV QTC" or similiar.
> Or you ask "do you have QTC?", then the other might answer "i have 5 QTC" and 
> waits for your "QRV" to start the QTC traffic.
> Check your software how to do this... most up to date programs should support 
> you in sending and receiving QTC traffic. I use RCKrtty which is fairly good 
> at that. Writelog and others do equally well.
> 
> Why should you bother at all with QTCs? Because each successful exchange of a 
> QTC counts one point, both for the sender _and_ the receiver. QTC traffic is 
> a key to winning the WAEDC contest. There is no other way to make ten points 
> in such a relatively short time.
> 
> Here is an example of how QTC traffic might look like in RTTY:
> In (brackets) the call of the stn transmitting...
> 
> (g0vhs) CQ DE G0VHS
> (df4or) DE DF4OR DF4OR
> (g0vhs) DF4OR 599-042-042
> (df4or) G0VHS 599-023-023 I HAVE QTC
> (g0vhs) DF4OR QRV QTC
> (df4or) G0VHS I HAVE 5 QTC FOR YOU. QRV?
> (g0vhs) QRV
> (df4or) 0002 DL1ZBO 599001
> (df4or) 0003 W1ZT  599005
> (df4or) 0007 GU0SUP 599004
> (df4or) 0011 W7AY 599004
> (df4or) 0015 AA5AU 599033
> (df4or) G0VHS DE DF4OR QSL?
> (g0vhs) QSL TU NOW CQ WAEDC DE G0VHS
> and so on.
> 
> If you missed one or more QTCs you can (and should) ask for repetiton:
> ...
> (g0vhs) QRV
> (df4or) 0002 DL1ZBO 599001
> (df4or) 0003 W1ZT  599005
> (df4or) 0007 GU0SUP 599004
> (df4or) 0011 W7AY 599004
> (df4or) 0015 AA5AU 599033
> (df4or) G0VHS de DF4OR QSL?
> (g0vhs) RPT QTC 4 RPT QTC 4
> (df4or) 0011 W7AY 599004
> (df4or) G0VHS DE DF4OR QSL?
> (g0vhs) QSL TU NOW CQ...
> 
> or you could ask for a sequence to repeated
> (g0vhs) RPT QTC 3 to 5 RPT QTC 3 to 5
> or all
> (g0vhs) RPT ALL QTC RPT ALL QTC
> 
> Some programs precede each QTC with a sequence number in that group. It might 
> look like
> (df4or) 1/5 0002 DL1ZBO 599001
> (df4or) 2/5 0003 W1ZT  599005
> (df4or) 3/5 0007 GU0SUP 599004
> meaning QTC one of five, QTC two of five etc.
> 
> Again, check your software.
> 
> 
> I am sure I have missed an important point. Don't miss to check the rules at
> http://www.darc.de/referate/dx/xedcwr.htm
> 
> 73 and hope to see u in the WAEDC
> Ekki, DF4OR
> 
> 
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