[RTTY] Sending DE before a callsign

[David Hachadorian]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "robert" <tf3rb at internet.is>
To: <RTTY at contesting.com>; "Shelby Summerville" <k4ww at arrl.net>
Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2005 4:19 PM
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Suggestion for upcoming RTTY Roundup


> Hi
>
> I hope that everyone send a DE before there callsign and a 599 
> before the
> exchange.
> All the programs I have seen needs those two worde so they know that 
> a
> callsign is comming and a exchange.

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If a station is in AA5AU's database, Writelog will highlight it even 
without the DE. In fact, Writelog will take the string of characters 
FDR8EK7WM6CVDF and highlight K7WM. This one feature gives Writelog 
users a huge advantage in a RTTY contest. As far as I know, no other 
program has this capability. The N1MM guys are working on it, but it's 
not there yet.

It is still a good idea to send DE, because not everyone is using 
Writelog/AA5AU. Stations new to RTTY especially need to send DE, 
because they are not yet in the database.

There. I have given up my biggest RTTY operating secret.

Dave Hachadorian, K6LL
Yuma, AZ