[RTTY] BARTG COMMENTS

[John Barber GW4SKA]

Don has it right with his comments about the Sprint being a pure rate 
contest, which is the reason for the number only exchange. What you send has 
to depend on the balance between getting the data across correctly and not 
wasting time. That's just good operating, like changing your macros to suit 
conditions. The last time I checked a AA5AU log he had just 2 callsigns 
wrong and 1 'not in log'.

Delbert, I wouldn't wait that long for any station. I don't care if the 
typing is slow with no macros or someone sends my call twice on each over; 
they could be new ops giving me their first points in a test. No problem and 
I'll quite likely hit the keyboard and thank them, then go back to the F 
keys. When I wait for someone to finish a contest QSO and they just send 
'QSL QRZ' with no call, I go somewhere else and find a better operator.

Cheers, John GW4SKA


> My biggest complaint is a running station which doesn't send their call
> atleast once with every exchange.  There are times I've had to listen to 
> the
> station through several exchanges before I was sure of their call and
> sequence number.  A number of times I just gave up and kept on tuning to
> find a better target.
>
> Delbert, NQ4S
> http://nq4s.stuffofinterest.com/
>