[RTTY] CQ WW RTTY question

[Don Hill AA5AU]

The order in WriteLog is RST, ZONE, QTH but it really doesn't matter because RST is automatically populated with 599 and the zone
gets populated automatically depending on the callsign or from a prefill ADIF file.

The thing to remember is you need to only send RST and Zone once in your exchange and your state twice.

My exchange message when I'm running is:

AB1J 599 4 LA LA

When S&P, I send only "599 4 LA LA " (notice the space character after the last LA) unless I feel the running station did not get my
callsign correctly.  If I think he/she has my call wrong, I send:

AA5AU AA5AU
599 4 LA LA AA5AU

Hopefully the other station will figure out he/she has my call wrong.

Always end your message with a space character to separate the end of your message from noise characters.

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 Ktfrog007 at aol.com
Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2011 9:33 PM
To: rtty at contesting.com
Subject: [RTTY] CQ WW RTTY question

Hi,
 
I've operated in the CQ WW CW contests over the years and always sent 59905.  When I got into the RTTY contest I just added my state
at the  end:  599
05 MA
 
Last year at ARRL/Boxboro I heard Dennis, W1UE, give a talk on RTTY contesting and his examples showed 599 MA 05 because this is the
order of  the N1MM logger's entry boxes.
 
I figure Dennis knows what he's talking about so I'll probably change too, but I wondered if there were any aspects of this I hadn't
thought about.  
 
Any comments?
 
73,
Kermit, AB1J
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