[RTTY] Three lessons from NAQP

[Jeff Blaine]

Phil,

You are right about the chance of confusion.  Same for the guys having CQ as part of their call sign.  It depends on your objective. 
If it's to get your Q rate kicked up, then make the adjustments so that your name and state are not sharing the same letters.  Even 
if you only do it for this contest, you will be rewarded with a lot less requests to resend.

For your clearling message, just reply TU N9LAH QRZ - or TU N9LAH CQ.  Sending the station's call you just worked does not benefit 
anyone.  And the inclusion of your call makes a late appearing S&P station immediately ready to rock instead of having to wait for 
you to send the CQ again.

73, Jeff ACØC
www.ac0c.com

-----Original Message----- 
From: Phil Snyder
Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2011 7:48 PM
To: rtty at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Three lessons from NAQP

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

On 2/27/2011 7:20 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C 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!
>
> 73 - Jim AD1C
>
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