[RTTY] BARTG COMMENTS

[Fabi va2up]

Hi guys,
 
I would like to comment on this since I'm one of the 'short' S&P exchange macro. I started using the 'no callsign exchange' a couple of montyhs back but still feel uncomfortable at times. The basic macro would say:  010 010 010 (as per Bartg Sprint this weekend) but I do have a mycall x 1 macro to add my call when I feel it's necessary so that you would get 010 010 010 va2up.  I try to adjust according to conditions. If I call a station with strong sigs I would send the short format and so forth.
My conclusion is that this approach should be used with great care to avoid possible and uneccessary confusion.
On the running station side now if I run and send : AA5AU 010 010 010 and Don sends me 120 120 120 , I don't see a problem with that except that he's well ahead of me already and I need to get my act together :)
 
Once more I think that we have to make the best out of every particular situation and be ready to adapt to the picture we're watching at the present time as this may get out of focus as the contest evolves.
Will I continue to use the no call S&P macro in the future? Don't know yet. Maybe I'll go back to my old approach that had '010 010 010 va2up'  and simply cut short the TX after the exchange to leave my call out, when I feel loud enogh and in the clear.
 
It was nice working everybody in Bartg Sprint.  73   

Fabi  va2up
http://sites.google.com/site/va2upcontesting/



 
> From: wb5aaa at windstream.net
> To: whiter26 at sbcglobal.net; rtty at contesting.com
> Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 12:16:18 -0600
> Subject: Re: [RTTY] BARTG COMMENTS
> 
> I think u are 100% correct with these very short exchanges.
> 
> 
> Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery. 
> "Calvin Coolidge" 30th Pres of U.S.A(1923-1929)
> 
> from the shack of
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> 73 de JIM
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: rtty-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:rtty-bounces at contesting.com] On
> Behalf Of Dick White
> Sent: Monday, January 24, 2011 12:11 PM
> To: RTTY Contesting
> Subject: [RTTY] BARTG COMMENTS
> 
> I had some fun in the BARTG SPRINT> Worked 186 Q's and a score of 49,104
> points.
> 
> There were two posts about the BARTG exchange that I disagree with. Both
> operators stated all they need from a call was the serial number. They did
> not want the call sign. I sent NR NR NR KS0M as my exchange in S&P. Here is
> one reason why sending only the serial number can be a problem. The band was
> crowded, I answered a call, when he replied all I got was "KS0" and callers
> on each side of him blasted his reply and I could not copy. I sent "AGN
> AGN". Due to the QRM I never got his exchange. I use a 250 HZ filter in
> contests and the two close by calls were on the edge of my band pass. I was
> going to call him again but then I copied him sending "TU KS0M QRZ BARTG" He
> evidently copied the exchange of one of the other close by station who sent
> a serial number only. I did not send an exchange. Had the one sending a
> number only exchange added hic call, the op I was trying to work would have
> realized it was not from me. As a result, he is not in my log, I lost a
> contact and he will lose a contact because and maybe be penalized because he
> is not in my log. We both wasted out time.
> You can keep you exchange too short. I want to make sure in an exchange that
> we both know who we are working.
> 
> 73 Dick KS0M
> 
> Richard C. "Dick" White
> Fulton, MO. 65251 U.S.A.
> whiter26 at sbcglobal.net
> 
> Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply.
> Speak kindly. Leave the rest to GOD.
> 
> Amateur Radio Station - KS0M
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