[RTTY] Friend files

[Kok Chen]

On Jul 20, 2004, at 5:46 PM, roofus wrote:

> I have not gotten around to playing with them yet but most contests 
> seem to
> be aimed at speed and saying HI DICK would slow things down.  Are they 
> used
> for contesting or considered bad manners?

I think you are going to get a variety of replies to this one :-).

Personally, I have found it quite useful as a "checksum" in case I have 
only partially copied the callsign that was sent.

If I received GU-6 TU CHEN TOOAPPQ, I can log the exchange without 
asking for a repeat.

This does not work as well if you have a common name.  Although there 
are more Chens than Johnsons in this world, they seem to stay away from 
RTTY contests :-).

With VY1JA, you hardly even slowed down the exchange , HI.

73
Chen, W7AY