[RTTY] ANARTS Macros

Phil Sauvey akdxer at yahoo.com
Sun Jun 15 15:12:20 EDT 2008


Even more frustrating, I had one station who almost had his 
callsign scroll entirely off of my screen!! I can handle a
few extra dots (not sure what's up with that either)
but I hate chasing a callsign! 

Phil 
KL8DX


--- On Sun, 6/15/08, Vladimir Sidorov <vs_otw at rogers.com> wrote:

> From: Vladimir Sidorov <vs_otw at rogers.com>
> Subject: Re: [RTTY] ANARTS Macros
> To: "RTTY Reflector" <rtty at contesting.com>
> Date: Sunday, June 15, 2008, 10:33 AM
> > While running in CQ mode in the ANARTS contest, I
> noticed several
> > stations starting their reports with a string of
> "....." dots.  What's
> > with the ....dots?
> >
> 
> To make a long story short, the string of dots is waste of
> time. The longer 
> the string is, the more time is wasted for the both
> parties.
> 
> 
> > Also, noticed a DX station calling CQ DX CQ DX and he
> was not
> > a JA.  What is not DX to a DX station?
> >
> 
> Normally the "CQ DX" means a call to stations in
> other continents. It is 
> strictly followed at least in Europe. If a European station
> calls CQ DX, the 
> operator is pretty sure, he will not be called by another
> European. 
> Unfortunatelly the CQ DX call is pretty meaningless in NA.
> 
> 73,
> Vladimir VE3IAE
> 
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> >
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