[RTTY] K or carriage return

RW4WZ rw4wz at udm.net
Mon Feb 14 04:12:56 PST 2011


 

> > The "penalty" for the three
> >extra spaces is less than 1/2 second so it should not impact 
> even the 
> >stations with the highest rate.
> 
> REPLY:
> 
> 1/2 second times 1000 QSOs is 8.3 minutes. Won't matter to 
> casual contesters but serious contesters have won and lost by 
> one or two Q's. 
> 
> How many Q's can be made in 8.3 minutes?

They waste more then this when do not putting the space after call sign.
Last WPX I note that almost all big guns do this and it takes 4-6 seconds 
for me try to retrieve the call from the garbage on the screen. I never ask
to repeat because I know that I'll get the same garbage

Larry

RW4WZ



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