[RTTY] RTTY Best Practices

Terry Gerdes terry at ab5k.net
Mon Jan 9 20:13:43 EST 2006


hi Ed,

Good stuff.  One other thing to add is:

I will never send a QSO B4 message.  If someone calls me and I show him to 
be a dupe, I will work him anyway.   The better op's know to do this.

73 Terry - AB5K


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ed Steeble" <esteeble at sc.rr.com>
To: <rtty at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 2:56 PM
Subject: [RTTY] RTTY Best Practices


> After reading the comments and discussions after the RU here are some of 
> my
> observations, thoughts:
>
> 1) I will add CQ after my call when CQing. However with 90w to 100w and a
> vertical, I will keep the buffer/macro with 3 CQs and 3 K3IXDs. I 
> rearrange
> the text so that one of the CQs is after my call. I am not loud enough to
> get by with a "CQ de K3IXD CQ".
>
> 2) I wish stations, especially those with 2X2s and 2X1 calls would add a
> space after their call. At times the print looks like it is a 2X3 or 1X3
> call. Please, no discussions about which software has the best call sign
> recognition algorithm.
>
> 3) FB on the RTTY good practices comments here and in Bill, W6WRT, NCJ
> columns, but an article in World Radio is needed to reach the rookie RTTY
> contester and also new RTTY operator. Maybe even an eHAm.net article. A 
> lot
> of the preaching/comment is to the choir. Think, "How do we reach and 
> teach
> the new RTTY operator?"
>
> 4) Re "Net On", now I understand why I couldn't sink up with several
> stations. I gave up and moved on. Also the PSK31 operator moving over to
> RTTY has to learn NOT to click on the waterfall! It took me a day in my
> first RTTY contest to figure this out. I explained this past week to two
> RTTY newcomers that they need to tune with the VFO not the mouse.
>
> 5) I was glad to see that SC wasn't rare. We have a new contest club in 
> the
> Charleston. SC area and we have been making SC less rare in the contests -
> <www.NU4SC.com>  - the Low Country Contest Club.
>
> 6) I found out quickly that it pays to have a buffer with 5 "SC" in it for
> the marginal condition QSOs. Likewise I have a buffer with five K3IXDs in 
> it.
>
> 7) I too have a buffer/macro that contains "My Call is...."
>
> Now to refine my macros/buffers again. CU in CQ WPX RTTY, maybe as NU4SC,
> else K3IXD/4.
>
> 73, Ed
> K3IXD
>
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