[RTTY] Cheating

[Don Hill AA5AU]

It wasn't Mike.  I watched Mike and Bud, AA3B, and both were operating SO2R efficiently and legally when observed.  I too have
forgotten to engage the SO2R transmitter lockout but normally find this out before in pre-contest checks.  It's part of my
pre-contest checklist.

The person I observed was not just making a mistake.  It was too obvious.  I understand mistakes as well as anyone.

73, Don AA5AU
http://www.aa5au.com
http://www.rttycontesting.com 

-----Original Message-----
From: rtty-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:rtty-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Mike
Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 1:02 PM
To: rtty at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Cheating

Sent the following to Don a few minutes ago.

"Hello Don,

I'm probably the culprit.  No excuse but it wasn't intentional.

Forgot to initiate the "RTTY Single Tx Lockout - Last one wins" Writelog feature until noticed the meters on both amps. were showing
xmitting.  Once saw this, I realized what happened.  I don't think any simultaneous QSOs were made to my knowledge, only working a
station on one band while CQ on the other (still a "Rules" violation).  Out of town family commitments and then having my grandson's
soccer team holding their end of season party at the QTH on Sunday didn't allow much time to get everything set-up and tested.  Then
only had a few hours of in and out shack time.  The desire to put some time in the Contest over took double checking the S/W set-up.

Regarding the spotting, Don, on the wrong band, again, this could have been associated as well with the problem of the "RTTY Single
Tx Lockout - Last
one wins" not being checked.   Normally, just calling up the "Edit Packet
Spot" (Cntrl T in Writelog) will have entered the last call worked on the keyboard entry band for sending to the Cluster.  Again,
noticed this wasn't the case after posting several "wrong" frequencies for stations heard in the Contest.  However, noticed this
occurring even after the "RTTY Single Tx Lockout - Last one wins" was checked.  Used the ANARTS Writelog module as didn't realize a
DLDC WL module had been published due to being on travel without Internet the preceding week.  I'll see what happens with the DLDC
module.

Again I apologize for the errors.  I'll chalk this up with my having erroneously operated 11 hours in a 10 hour contest and the
several times started a contest too soon."

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Joe Subich, W4TV <lists at subich.com> wrote:

>
> Sometimes it's appropriate to call a thing for what it is.
>
> You can't expect to discriminate against one group of single operators 
> simply because you don't like their choice of technique.
>
> 73,
>
>    ... Joe, W4TV
>
> On 6/15/2010 12:10 PM, Bill, W6WRT wrote:
> > ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
> >
> > On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:06:43 -0400, "Joe Subich, W4TV"
> > <lists at subich.com>  wrote:
> >
> >> you are a bigot.
> >
> > REPLY:
> >
> > Oldest rule of the Internet:  When the name calling begins, the 
> > argument has been lost.
> >
> > 73, Bill W6WRT
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  Mike, K4GMH
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