[RTTY] CQWW exchange

[David Wilburn]

Good point.  I know my old call (K4DGW) was in the SCP.  Obviously, it 
being my first contest with the new call, it is not in there, thus I 
come up as a Unique.

I noticed lots of requests for repeats, and initial hesitancy while 
they looked up my call.  This was confirmed late Sunday when I logged 
into QRZ, just to confirm the GMT time.  I threw my call in there.  I 
had gone from 5 or so lookups, to over 250.  That generated a pretty 
good chuckle.

David Wilburn
NM4M
http://www.nm4m.com




Peter Laws wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 04:55, Roger Cooke <g3ldi at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>>  OK, so I'm moaning. There is a point however. The operator still has to copy the CALL SIGN plus the AREA code ( NY, NJ etc., )  and although I did  not make that many Q's, it really was amazing how many stations did not stay around for confirmation OR, more
> 
> 
> Agreed, the RST is a waste of airtime - replace it with something
> unique, I say.  There are tests that include time and names, just to
> spice things up, and there should be more.
> 
> I'm always amused at the folks who have some kind of FRIENDS file or
> whatever that has me as N9UWY from my time in Illinois when I was
> N5UWY/9.  It was wrong then and "wrong-er" now!  But no amount of
> repeating my call will get them to fix it.  Fine, they lose the
> points, not me.
> 
> N5UW also has many RTTY QSOs as well, and probably in LOTW ... and as
> far as I know, he's pretty much a CW man.  :-)
> 
>