[RTTY] Good Observations in RTTY RU

[Jim W7RY]

Why not simply add ONE carriage return or line feed after your call into 
your macro?




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Hachadorian" <K6LL at ARRL.net>
To: "RTTY Reflector" <rtty at contesting.com>; "Steve **KT0DX**" 
<kt0dx at comcast.net>
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 7:51 PM
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Good Observations in RTTY RU


>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Steve **KT0DX**" <kt0dx at comcast.net>
> To: <rtty at contesting.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 1:01 AM
> Subject: [RTTY] Good Observations in RTTY RU
>>I saw two things that I am going to try next year.
>> The first one is to send out a space or two before I allow
>> my radio to
>> go back into receive.  I did not realize the impact that
>> the space has
>> at the end of the micro.  I started to notice that some
>> stations that
>> called me I could copy the call sign two times with no
>> problem as the
>> garbage characters were spaced away from the last letter
>> of the call.
>> On others the trash was right next to the last letter in
>> the call and I
>> would get something like KH6JM KH6JMGdEdl.  Now which call
>> was correct
>> the KH6JM or the KH6JMG.  If both are in the master call
>> data base they
>> are going to both show up as good.  Nothing to do but as
>> for a repeat of
>> the call and lost time.  I changed my micro during the
>> contest and I did
>> not have any request for a repeat of my call.  I hope I am
>> correct about
>> this space deal if not I am sure someone is going to let
>> me know.
>
> Absolutely correct! In fact, Writelog requires TWO spaces
> after a callsign to correctly identify and highlight it.
> Since there are so many people using Writelog for RTTY, I
> would put TWO spaces after my callsign, such as when dumping
> in my callsign on S&P. For the CQ message or the THANK YOU
> QRZ message, I always put a CQ at the end to cover the
> spaces for Writelog. Wayne is supposed to be looking at this
> issue. Of course, NEVER put a LINEFEED at the end of ANY
> transmission.
>
>
>
>> The other thing I took notice of were the stations that
>> were sending the
>> other stations call at the front of the report and their
>> call at the
>> end.
>
> I don't think this is a good idea for loud stations
> expecting a pileup. Under pileup conditions, frequently the
> front end of a transmission is obscured by long-winded
> callers. Consequently, everyone is wondering "who did he
> come back to?" If you put "HISCALL" at the front AND the
> end, there will be no ambiguity. On the other hand, as you
> point out, casual listeners will wonder who owns the
> frequency, and newbies may start calling the wrong station
> after the qso is over.
>
> Dave Hachadorian, K6LL
> Yuma, AZ
>
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