[RTTY] K or carriage return

[Peter Laws]

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 21:15, Al Kozakiewicz <akozak at hourglass.com> wrote:

> obvious reasons.  My CQ macro started as CQ WPX DE AB2ZY AB2ZY K.  I dropped the "K" and the "DE" after a bit of running. That took about 5 seconds to send and I listened for about 5 seconds as well, more to keep the duty cycle around 50% than anything else.  Is 5 seconds of silence too long?  Is 5 seconds of CQing too long?  I'd be curious to know what people think is optimal.

Move the CQ to the end so that folks know you're CQing:

WPX AB2ZY AB2ZY CQ

Same length as what you ended up with, but better since the other guy
needn't wait as long if he catches you after the WPX.


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