[RTTY] Post Roundup comments

[Bill]

Jeff...I agree
I know this will cause a small firestorm about wasting 23. milliseconds 
of time but I sure agree with you.
a space before and after the callsign

compare the wasted time of the space with the pause while I decide I 
can't figure out the calls and require a 'agn agn'.
for some reason, especially if the call ends a line and carries over to 
the next

On 1/10/2011 11:43 AM, Jeff Blaine wrote:
> David,
>
> Agree with you on all counts.  And thanks for the Qs
>
> The thing that drove me nuts was guys failing to put spaces around their call signs and sent them only one time.  With the decoder
> sensitivity cranked up, your screen has tons of crap on it and a guy's call sign buried in the middle.  Several times I had to ask
> guys - most all who were weak anyway - to repeat their call - which they did of course.  But a few of them only did it ONE TIME - as
> if dropping it out there twice would cause a TX meltdown!!!
>
> 40m was cooking Sunday afternoon.  Saturday evening 80m was good.  Higher bands marginal for DX.  Maybe it was my weak signal.
>
> 73, Jeff ACØC
> www.ac0c.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Levine
> Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 5:45 AM
> To: rtty
> Subject: [RTTY] Post Roundup comments
>
> Boy did the weekend go quick! I'm hoping to get feeling back in my legs by
> tomorrow's commute to work.
>
> Here's some things I noticed during the contest. Did you notice anything
> funny?
>
> Favorite call sign received:
> DE  K 0 R C J    K 0 R C J
> Yes, with spaces in between each letter which makes it rather difficult to
> click on. Maybe that was his plan? At least he sent DE ;-)
>
> Best use of "DE":
> Me to only W6WRT - K2DSL TU 599 NJ NJ K2DSL AND NO DE
> It received a nice chuckle in his reply.
>
> What bothered me the most in macros:
> Folks running and not ending with CQ or QRZ. Is it that hard to do? Is your
> CQ macro so exciting that I need to wait and see what it contains before I
> reply?
>
> Folks seemed to be improving with eliminating line feeds and needless chit
> chat in macros. I seem to have noticed much less of that this weekend and
> only recall a couple that were ridiculously excessive. Maybe we can convince
> the logging/RTTY developers to truncate macros that contain text over a
> certain length.
>
> Is DC really a state?
>
> Please reply and have fun - no DE wars!
>
> David - K2DSL
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