[RTTY] Three lessons from NAQP

[Jeff Blaine]

Run stations, IF you put the S&P call in the TU line, please put the TU first, not the call...  Meaning (from David's example 
below - and assuming the run station is N9LAH):

BAD:        xxxx TU N9LAH CQ
GOOD:    TU N9LAH CQ

Why?  As the S&P, don't know if you are done with me until I see the TU or QSL or whatever is in your message.  If you send my call 
as part of it, then I need to sit through more of the exchange to know when I can move on.

So drop the S&P call confirmation repeat in the TU line and saves both ends of the Q some time.

73, Jeff ACØC
www.ac0c.com

-----Original Message----- 
From: n9lah at comcast.net
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 9:10 AM
To: David Levine
Cc: rtty at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Three lessons from NAQP



I guess I will rework the TU message for next time. The main reason I asked the qustion was that I have been using this macro as 
long as I have been using N1MM and I just never had so many problems with it. I suppose all things need tweaking now and then.



Phil

N9LAH




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Levine" <david at levinecentral.com>
To: rtty at contesting.com
Cc: "Phil Snyder" <n9lah at comcast.net>
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 5:56:49 AM
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Three lessons from NAQP

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


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