[RTTY] Confession - I love QTC's

[wo4o at juno.com]

I really do.  Exchanging each QTC is like working another station.  I
want to work as many stations as I can in a contest.  And, I want to
exchange as many QTC's as I can within a given time period.  I also want
to do everything within my control to increase my score.  Exchanging
QTC's affords me this opportunity. Thanks for the QTC's!

73 Ric Wo4o

PS I had 200 more QTC's to send but nobody to receive.  I hate when that
happens...

http://www.qrz.com/callsign/Wo4o

...-.-

Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 16:09:59 +0000
From: Frank Fallon - N2FF <n2ff at optonline.net>
To: rtty at contesting.com
Subject: [RTTY] Confession - I hate QTC's
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I really do.  It's not really a matter of whether my software handles
them
well, easily or not at all.  I just have no patience for them.  I want to
work as many stations as I can in a contest.  I do not want to play post
office or wait for someone to finish sending or receiving QTC's before I
work them.  I passed by a lot of stations in the process.
 
I am sure I am not alone in this feeling or opinion. Contesting to me is
working as many different stations as I can within a given time period. 
My
favorite format is the CQWW format but I manage to tolerate or come close
to
enjoying a number of other formats.  But the WAE format is a real strain.
 I
feel that exchanging QTC's just slows things down.  I guess I don't like
playing that kind of post office.  For that reason I seldom enter the
contest and usually do not make much more than 100 QSO's and never send
or
receive the hated QTC's.
 
I had a buffer ready for the contest.  It said.  "No QTC's.  I hate QTC's
SRI.  I sent it only when asked about sending or receiving QTC's.
 
Thank you for letting me ventilate.
 
Frank Fallon........  N2FF
 

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