[RTTY] Fwd: [GreenKeys] lack of civility

[Larry]

I ran into the same thing. When he sent just 599 I suddenly realized that he
had sent CQ DX and not CQ WPX (or similar) so I quickly switched to
straight keyboard to chat. He was nice enough to send a contest serial 
number
without me asking for one.

73, Larry  W6NWS
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Al Kozakiewicz" <akozak at hourglass.com>
To: <rtty at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2011 8:12 PM
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Fwd: [GreenKeys] lack of civility


> During one of my S&P sessions, I happened across a KP4 who was just doing 
> "normal" RTTY, i.e., not in the contest. In haste I answered his CQ and 
> was embarassed that I was not equipped for a typical exchange - I use the 
> K7RE interface to my logging program and the macros were all specific to 
> CQ WPX.  I must have looked like an idiot after sending him KP4xx AB2ZY 
> 599 123-123 followed by my quickly clicking the keyboard key and blind 
> typing all the stuff I would normally have in a macro (name, QTH, etc). 
> His log entry got done on a pad kept handy and entered into my main 
> logging program after the contest was over.
>
> One less contest QSO isn't going to kill anyone.
>
> Al
> AB2ZY
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rtty-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:rtty-bounces at contesting.com] On 
> Behalf Of Larry
> Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2011 6:01 PM
> To: rtty at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [RTTY] Fwd: [GreenKeys] lack of civility
>
> The presumption seems that the person understood that it was a contest QSO 
> and had at least some interest in the contest. But perhaps not. Someone 
> hearing a DXpedition such as ZL8X may just call because they need ZL8 and 
> might be totally oblivious to the fact that ZL8X was doing contest QSOs. 
> The number means nothing to such a person - they just need the RST. I 
> usually get at least one call per contest from someone who has no idea 
> that there is a contest in progress and they just want a QSO and telling 
> them that you are working contest CQWW etc means nothing to them. Usually 
> they can be talked into a legitimate exchange but not always.
>
> 73, Larry  W6NWS
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim W7RY" <w7ry at inbox.com>
> To: "Bill" <bmarx at bellsouth.net>; "RTTY reflector" <rtty at contesting.com>
> Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2011 10:42 AM
> Subject: Re: [RTTY] Fwd: [GreenKeys] lack of civility
>
>
>> Perhaps they should have done 1 minuet of research and found out what
>> contest it was?  Then sent the appropriate exchange? Or do we have to do
>> that for them too? (Tell them which contest it is and what the exchange
>> is)
>>
>> 73
>> Jim W7RY
>>
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> From: "Bill" <bmarx at bellsouth.net>
>> Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2011 5:21 AM
>> To: "RTTY reflector" <rtty at contesting.com>
>> Subject: [RTTY] Fwd: [GreenKeys] lack of civility
>>
>>> How contesters react.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Apparently there's an RTTY contest going on.
>>> So I hear someone calling CQ and answer them.
>>> (Callsign withheld) When I asked them "what number?",
>>> their response was "Just give me a damn number."
>>>
>>> Ok, guess I'll go back to copying ITTY instead.
>>>
>>> So much for trying to enjoy the radio.
>>>
>>> Jeff-1.0
>>> wa6fwi
>>>
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