[RTTY] Friend files

[Roger Cooke]

Hi.

  Just read some of the mail regarding the friend file.


  As a RTTY operator from the early 1960's, I would like to think that
RTTY is still a
"gentlemans" mode. Obviously we cannot expect to know every other RTTY
operator, as we
indeed did in the early days, but let's not take this too seriously.
Enter a contest to
do well, winning would be a bonus, but personally I enter it for the
fun, and like to
greet and be greeted with a friendly "Hi Roger" - instead of "599 001
bk".

  Some of the more serious contesters would say " Contesting is not a
matter of
life and death - it's more important than that!"

  Well, I have been a contester for decades and have always had fun,
won a few, but
entered far more than I have won! There is enough of the rubber stamp
contacts on the
bands these days, I have no time for them myself. I like to think that
a few extra
characters in the exchange will help to brighten somebody's day.

  The only grumble I have is that I am still using W98SE and it won't
handle all the
entries in the Friend file, so if I miss you out in the next contest,
my apologies!
I shall have to consider upgrading my operating system, and thereby
give myself some
more problems.

Just MHO's

73 de Roger G3LDI
rcooke at g3ldi.freeserve.co.uk
g3ldi at amsat.org
g3ldi at qsl.net
g3ldi at gb7ldi.#35.gbr.eu


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