[RTTY] ZL8R

[Don Hill AA5AU]

The ZL8R RTTY operation was a perfect example of what happens when the DX doesn't put the callsign of the station they are working
at the end of the exchange.  I watched them on 15 for several hours and the operation was slowed by repeats.

As everyone knows, what happens is that if you call and the DX doesn't come back, you call again.  If the DX comes back while you
are calling again you miss the callsign at the beginning of the exchange.  If the DX doesn't put the callsign of the station he is
working at the end, we have no idea who he is working.

I saw a W3 station ask them to put the callsign at the end and they came back with "its better with short exchanges" or something to
that effect.  This is not true.  They could have dropped one of the 599 reports (they were sending 599 twice) and put the callsign
of the station they were working at the end.  This would have sped up things considerably.  I did see on at least two occasions
where they did actually send the callsign of the station they were working at the end of the exchange, each time after a short
break, so they had that buffer available but rarely used it.

On the other hand, the XF4 crew was sometimes slow in coming back with a confirmation today on 17 RTTY, but their rate was much
better than the ZL8 rate.

Can't wait for VU7!

73, Don AA5AU 

-----Original Message-----
From: rtty-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:rtty-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Dick White
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 3:50 PM
To: RTTY Contesting
Subject: [RTTY] ZL8R

I received mail from W0LSD, K0BX (see below) and AI9T. All who said the ZL8R Came back to me. I guess my 60 watts and 4 element YAGI
got through ok and I haven't lost my ability to bust a pile up. Evidently someone must have called close to my receive and I could
not print the ZL8R when he came back.
I never saw  him come back with my call. The problem was not operator error, but operator procrastination. I got this YAESU Mark-5
Field a year ago and have all the filters in for CW. But I do not have any SSB filters. However, I received my INRAD Roofing filter
4 weeks ago and have not had the time to install it due to my XYL having breast cancer surgery and radiation treatments. Evidently I
need to get some filtering in so this does not happen again. My old Ten Tec Paragon had all 5 of their filters and I never had any
such problem. The Paragon died after 16 years and I got the Mark-5.
I would much rather have the Paragon than the Mark-5. It was a much more simple rig to use and work on. See you in the JARTS this
week end.

73   Dick  KS0M


>HI Dick, well you almost worked the ZL8R on 15M RTTY.

>The copied you and then called you 3 times to answer.
>I don't know if you got covered up or what but then the operator said 
>"NIL". and went on.
>So what happened??

>Joe K0BX
>STL MO

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