[RTTY] JARTS Observations

[Tom - KE1JF]

I know that my primary station log has the option to spot each contact when 
it is entered. If that was the case & the operator wasn't watching the 
telnet they wouldn't even know it.

73,
Tom, KE1JF


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "K0BX" <k0bx at arrl.net>
To: <rtty at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 9:21 PM
Subject: [RTTY] JARTS Observations


>I was in and out of the contest all weekend and only made about 200
> QSO's but here are a few observations:
>
> 1.  There was one station with a big signal running the frequency.  I
> guess the operator was new, which is OK, but every time they made a DX
> QSO, they spotted it.  That is, they were on the frequency and putting a
> spot for the DX.  So each
> time I clicked over, instead of finding the DX station, it was the
> state-side run station.  I wonder if anyone noticed that?  This station
> was on the same frequency for a long time.
>
> 2.  This is something that seems to be happening just in the past few
> years.  I go to a spot frequency for a DX station and instead find a US
> station calling CQ.  I assume that the US station went there to work the
> DX, finding that they could not hear the DX, started calling CQ
> on what they think is a clear frequency.  In the mean time, everyone
> clicking on the spot finds them and not the DX.