[RTTY] QSO B4

[Bill Turner]

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 19:32:25 EDT, W0YR at aol.com wrote:

>I worked KM4M on 20 and they called me later and tried to work me again.  I 
>gave them the time I'd work them and sure enough, later got a message that 
>they'd inadvertantly left the /4 off my call when logging.  (That tells me someone 
>was MANUALLY entering callsigns !!!! ??? a great source of errors.) 

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I had to manually enter the /x on several calls during the contest and
I'm wondering why the stations sent the /x in the first place?

It's not required by the FCC.
It's not required by the contest rules.
It slows things down.

So why do it?

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Bill W6WRT