[RTTY] Fwd: [GreenKeys] lack of civility

[Jeff Blaine]

Kevin,

It's a compromise between maintaining a Q rate - after all, the point of the contest is competition and educating the uninformed is 
not a primary objective.  Ignoring the guy is certainly more considerate than swearing at him.

However, RTTY is not a voice communication where the essence can be spelled out in 15 seconds of air time.  And when you are talking 
about a contest like WPX, where there literally are wall to wall signals, it would be pretty hard for even the most casual op to 
realize there is a contest going on.  If you reply to a contest CQ, the other guy is going to want the exchange.  After all, you are 
responding to his CQ.

There is responsibility on both sides.  You can't push all the requirements on the contester any more than you can endorse a terse 
response given to a naive respondent.

73, Jeff ACØC
www.ac0c.com

-----Original Message----- 
From: Kevin H. Phillips
Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2011 11:01 AM
To: Jeff Blaine
Cc: Bill ; Jim W7RY ; RTTY reflector
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Fwd: [GreenKeys] lack of civility

> The run station could just have easily resumed his CQ call and dropped
the QSO. No mess, no fuss.
>

In other words, ignore the person (?) or am I misunderstanding?  My
question is:  is this more gentlemanly behavior?  For me, the issue is not
only the language but the overall attitude.   This may be the sort of
behavior which turns people against contesting or, as the ARRL has chosen
to call it, "radiosport".  If that terminology is accepted, then this
doesn't seem like "sportsmanlike" behavior to me.  I can remember
blundering into a contest, albeit a SSB contest, not long after I got
licensed.  Someone took the time to tell me what the procedure was.  That
seems to be more in keeping with the spirit of the "sport" IMHO.

73
Kevin
W5TTY

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