[RTTY] QSO B4

[Jim Martin - MM0BQI]

Why Do it?
One reason is that if you don't log the correct suffix the LOTW will bomb
out the QSO and it will not match up!
Having just processed 1000 QSL cards from previous IOTA DXpeditions I would
say about 20% logged me without the suffix. Okay for paper QSLs but LOTW
gives no quarter if the callsign is not exact.
BTW I used N1MMLogger last weekend and had no problems with it picking up
the full call.
73
Jim  MM0BQI / MM0Q

-----Original Message-----
From: rtty-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:rtty-bounces at contesting.com]On
Behalf Of Bill Turner
Sent: 28 September 2004 16:15
To: rtty at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [RTTY] QSO B4


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?

--
Bill W6WRT

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