[RTTY] SO2R in WPX RTTY

[Daniel VE2SB]

Bonsoir my friends. Phil are you shure about 10 seconds or it is 4 seconds. When you are in contest you are not at your work, relax we do contest for fun. The rtty contest is for us an opportunity to escape from daily life. It was my first contest in SO2R for sure I did some mistake with my FKeys. I spent lot of $$ and I learn hard to do SO2R, give me a chance to be better. After few contest ans with experience I will give you your TU in nano. Like Bill sais ''Maybe slowing down is not a bad thing.'' And I said ''''Maybe slowing down is good for your heart too''.

There is my frenchy 2 cents.
Aurevoir

73
Daniel VE2SB alias VC2E
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Phil Cooper 
  To: RTTY 
  Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 2:41 PM
  Subject: [RTTY] SO2R in WPX RTTY


  Hi all,

  Just an observation, rather than any sort of criticism, but I note that
  quite a few SO2R op's were VERY slow in responding to calls and exchanges
  during this WPX. And by slow, I mean in the order of 10 seconds or more!

  Whilst I am not necessarily in favour of SO2R (as part of the single op
  class), I understand why you want to do it, and good luck to you.
  BUT, I really think you should be a little quicker on the replies, and maybe
  consider those of us on the other end.

  Having said that, there were a few SO2R ops that were amazing, and responded
  very quickly, so it can be done.

  Obviously, if it is your run frequency, you have the control, but I don't
  particularly like waiting too long for that TU QRZ while you work a mult on
  another frequency.
  When I was CQ'ing, I had some callers that were obviously busy elsewhere,
  and it really did screw up MY run on occasions when I replied to you, but
  you were busy on your run frequency. One several occasions, I sent again,
  only to hear the end of your message to me. That meant other callers tried
  to get in, figuring I wasn't going to work you, so they called over you.

  Did anyone else notice the delay in responses?

  As I said, these thoughts are just an observation, and not a criticism!

  73 de Phil GU0SUP


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