[RTTY] K or carriage return

[Phil Sussman]

When looking at this thread, I wonder what's more important. Is it
achieving the satisfaction of working in a contest or fretting over
lost milliseconds. 

When winning a contest is more important to someone to the extent of
one or two Q's have we lost sight of the fun of Ham Radio? Has
winning a contest become such an obsession that it is the single most
motivating factor in ones life?

If so, contesting ceases (at least for me) to be fun. Tempers flare
as time and bandwith are "wasted" over one innocent (perhaps a 
contest novice) contest exchange.

End of soap box, with tongue in cheek,

Have a Happy Valentine's Day (or suffer the consequences, Hi)

73 de Phil - N8PS

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Quoting "Joe Subich, W4TV" <lists at subich.com>:

> 
>  > They waste more then this when do not putting the space after call
>  > sign.
> 
> Very true.  I don't know of any single radio operator who makes 4000
> RTTY QSOs in a 48 hour contest.
> 
> The other considerations are - how many QSOs will they have removed
> in the log checking process due to "bad calls" and how many duplicate
> QSOs will they have because the other station did not get the right
> call the first time.
> 
> 73,
> 
>     ... Joe, W4TV
> 
> 
> On 2/14/2011 7:12 AM, RW4WZ wrote:
> >
> >
> >>> 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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