[RTTY] Three lessons from NAQP

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C
<jjreisert at alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> Three lessons I learned in 1.5 hours of NAQP RTTY:
>
> 1.  Don't click on a name before the other operator finishes sending it.
>
> 2.  Don't assume Loyd is a typo and "fix" it.
>
> 3.  If you want to use AL as your name, please for the love of ###
> choose something else!

I forgot one:

4.  Use the standard 2-letter postal abbreviation for your state or
province.  Don't spell it out, and don't put punctuation after it!
One station sent something like:

    <name> SS. <name> SS,

so there was no way to click on the state abbreviation (SS) and *not*
get the period or comma along with it, at least in WriteLog.

I won't even get started about the guy who separated the two copies of
his exchange with:

    <space><hyphen><space>

Talk about overkill!

-- 
Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us