[RTTY] Suggestion for JARTS 2008

[7L4IOU]

Hi Friends 

I don't know about U.S. situation. 
However, it's still complicated in JA. 
I got the license of the call area 4 here in Tokyo (area 1 as general). 
Therefore, I hesitates to add excessive and unnecessary "/1". 

About an automatic direction display. 
It is not always the short pass. :-)
There are light and shadow in the all things. 
Which do you choose? 

73 Hisami 7L4IOU at JA1-Area

>
>Yes, the WriteLog contesting software I use, does know the difference
>between a station labelled AD1C at 109 degrees and AD1C/0 at 270 degrees
>from my QTH here in Ontario.
>
>However, when I check with my daily logging software Dxbase, it did not
>calculate the direction correctly. Your station call, AD1C shows at 113
>degrees, where AD1C/0 moved the beam to 91 deg and still identified you as a
>citizen of the United States. Yet if I used AD1C/W0, it shows 272 degrees.
>So it seems DXBase has a parsing issue or perhaps /W'n' is the proper way to
>sign when portable(?).
>
>Personally I would not expect a contest station to use a /W0 when a /0
>should suffice, especially in CW. 
>
>Thanks for the addition input Jim, it does indeed seem that all software is
>not created equal.
>
>73 Eric - VE3GSI
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jim Reisert AD1C> 
>> 
>> On 10/24/2007 11:22 AM, Eric - VE3GSI wrote:
>> 
>> > For those of us that use contest callsigns to automatically 
>> turn the 
>> > rotor to the correct direction with software, wrong call 
>> areas often 
>> > are a problem.
>> 
>> That is true.  However, does logging software know that AD1C/0 is a 
>> Zero-land call?  It depends on how software parses the 
>> callsigns; some 
>> software may decide that since it doesn't change country, there is 
>> noting to do for the "/0" at the end.  CT does what you want, I can't 
>> speak for what the others do.
>> 
>> 73 - Jim AD1C
>
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