[RTTY] CQ WW RTTY Practice Run Exchange

[Dick Kriss]

Please disregard my posting.  It was late and I was confused.

There is no issue. The correct format for the exchange is
599 TX 04 (State then Zone).

The exchange rule is

"VII. Exchange: Stations operating within
the 48 continental United States and the 14
Canadian areas transmit RS(T) report plus
State or Area (Canada only) plus CQ Zone.
All other stations transmit RS(T) and CQ
Zone."

73 Dick AA5VU

On Thursday9/25/08 10:29 PM, "Dick Kriss" <aa5vu at arrl.net> wrote:

> I tried the CQ WW RTTY practice run with a new to me
> beta logging program and I was sending 599 TX 04 and
> most (not all) were sending 599 Zone State per the rules.
> 
> It is easy for me to change the macro to send 599 04 TX;
> however, the Cabrillo file will show up as 599 TX 04 and
> the received reports will be in the same format.
> 
> The beta program cannot be changed in time for the CQ
> WW RTTY contest so I will change the macro to send reports
> in the format others expect and try to sort things out later.
> 
> Something tells me the robot may barf on the Cabrillo
> format for the exchange. From my practice .cbr file:
> 
> ------
> QSO: 14000 RY 2008-09-26 0209 AA5VU  599 TX 04  W6WRT  599 CA 03
> -----
> 
> 73 Dick AA5VU