[RTTY] Self spotting question

[Jeff Blaine]

Jim,

Government regulation is a poor for personal responsibility and education.

By that same logic, SSB should be disallowed because of the same potential and only CW allowed.

73, Jeff ACØC
www.ac0c.com

-----Original Message----- 
From: Jim W7RY
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 8:15 AM
To: Dave Greig ; Gary AL9A
Cc: RTTY Contesting
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Self spotting question

In my opinion, FSK should be the only allowed (by FCC rules) shifting
method. Simply because of the poor quality audio that AFSK usually provides
by
those un-familiar with how to properly set their microphone gain when using
AFSK.

73
Jim W7RY


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From: "Dave Greig" <daven3buo at att.net>
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 6:00 AM
To: "Gary AL9A" <al9a at mtaonline.net>
Cc: "RTTY Contesting" <rtty at contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Self spotting question

> One of the questions that this brings up is -
>
> Is FSK still the dominate or do the Majority of RTTY users use AFSK?
>
> With Programs like FLDIGI where you use USB for everything becoming the
> norm?
>
> Dave Greig
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> On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 6:55 PM, Gary AL9A <al9a at mtaonline.net> wrote:
>
>> I always run FSK so when I generate a spot for someone I'm sure the
>> frequency I'm putting out is correct.  Unfortunately there are many RTTY
>> spots generated that have the wrong frequency .  I suspect these are
>> being
>> generated by folks running AFSK who forget to adjust the actual frequency
>> to
>> compensate for their being on LSB or USB.  It's discouraging to be
>> calling
>> away in a contest and finally see someone spot me, but then give the
>> wrong
>> frequency!
>>
>> So my question is this.  I know self spotting is a no-no, but if someone
>> else spots you and includes the wrong frequency would it be frowned upon
>> to
>> generate a correction spot yourself?  Perhaps the Remarks section of the
>> spot would contain something like, "Correct freq".  Any thoughts?
>>
>> 73,
>> Gary AL9A
>>
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