[RTTY] Three lessons from NAQP

[David Levine]

Phil,

There are 2 things a S&Per needs when they come across a line - your call
and an indication you are the calling station. If your last line is "AD1C TU
QRZ?" then if a S&Per tunes your frequency, they can't call you until either
you send another CQ or another station that has been listening on the
frequency calls you and goes through the entire exchange. I guess the 3rd
thing that could happen is people assume you are AD1C which seems to also be
the case from your report. As an S&Per anything like the following would be
helpful with the most important things being the last 2 elements of the line
(CQ or QRZ interchangable)

xxxx TU N9LAH CQ
TU N9LAH QRZ

If either of the last 2 parts of your TU line aren't like the above, unless
I've heard more of your transmission I can't reply until you send something
else. If it doesn't end with QRZ or CQ and I tune and just see N9LAH, I
would have no idea if you are sending your call to another station or
calling CQ and we both need to wait. In a pileup, you have enough folks
waiting to send their call but at any other time, the S&Per needs to wait to
know who is calling CQ.

My 2 cents.

K2DSL - David

On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 8:48 PM, Phil Snyder <n9lah at comcast.net> wrote:

> In the same direction. With poor band conditions is PHIL IL too
> confusing? I suppose one might mistake the IL as a second PHIL where the
> PH got garbled. Maybe I should use another name in the future.
>
> Also I ran the whole contest. I had many stations, more than I ever
> remember, sending their info and thinking they were working the station
> I just cleared with. My macro, which hasn't changed from the last couple
> of years, is "AD1C TU QRZ?" I thought that it was pretty clear that I am
> clearing with AD1C and moving on to the next caller, but they kept
> seeming to think they were working the station I just cleared with. Any
> ideas other then the recent use of QRZ thread?
>
> Phil
> N9LAH
>
>