[RTTY] J5C and RTTY Stations

[K0BX]

It is Sunday afternoon and I have been listening/copying J5C on 20 meter 
RTTY.  I worked them on Saturday so I am not in the chase.

I still hear stations calling on his frequency.  Even with the Frequency 
police telling them up up up they don't understand.  But I have done the 
same thing from time to time, with my PRO3, I go to hit the Dual Watch 
button and instead hit the Split button and there I am calling on the DX 
frequency.  It happens, and I am glad someone tells me.

But listening to the pileup I hear W4PPZ calling and calling with a very 
good signal but upside-down tones.  No frequency cop is going to tell 
him that.  I don't know if W4PPZ every figured out what was wrong, but 
he sure has wasted over an hour of calling.

During the ARRL RTTY Roundup I was operating with AB0RX and I had two 
stations calling that their tones were reverse.  I did stop and tell 
them.  Both went away and came back later with the problem corrected.
Another station only had one tone.  If we hadn't stop and told him about 
it, he would have continued calling and calling and calling never 
figuring out what was wrong.

I guess it is all a matter of training and experience.  So next time you 
hear a station who's signal is not quite right, tell him about it, don't 
get mad.

Joe K0BX