[RTTY] Three lessons from NAQP

[Don Hill AA5AU]

Using multiple names from the same station is crazy and should probably be eliminated from the rules.  One thing that I try hard to
do is to verify that I have every single contact correct before I log it.  So if I work a station with one name, then work them
again on another band with another name, I am killing myself trying to determine if I made a mistake the first time or if the
station is M2.  Sometimes I'll even ask if they are using different names although I didn't do that this time.  I don't recall any
station sending different names.  W6YX sent JOHN on all FIVE bands!

M2 stations should have to stick to one name or should do it on their own.  It drives the rest of us crazy!!!

73, Don AA5AU
http://www.aa5au.com
http://www.rttycontesting.com 

-----Original Message-----
From: rtty-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:rtty-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Gary AL9A
Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 6:18 PM
To: rtty at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Three lessons from NAQP

Gordon,

I can understand the confusion over using different names in  Multi-2 situation.  I've run across that myself from time to time.
Maybe it's just the way my brain is wired, but when I see BAMBI printed on the screen my mind strays off into images of sandy
beaches, cold beer and hot blondes. 
When you live all winter long with Alaska's long nights that's easy to do! 
Maybe a simple JOE would do the trick.  It's shorter and somehow I don't see myself fantasizing about being on a warm beach with
JOE.

73,
Gary AL9A


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gordon LaPoint" <n1mgo1 at verizon.net>
To: "Gary AL9A" <al9a at mtaonline.net>; <rtty at contesting.com>
Sent: March 01, 2011 2:02 AM
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Three lessons from NAQP


> Gary,
>    We use "Bambi" because using our names was too confusing!   We always 
> run Multi-2,
> and the rules state that you can send each operators name, as they 
> operate.  When we
> tried that we got people telling us that we were "Charlie" or "Gordon" , 
> not what we had
> just sent.  We were operating from a hunting camp in  the green mts. of VT 
> then so we
> switched to one name, "Bambi" and have been Bambi for years now!  Very 
> well known by lots
> of RTTY operators as Bambi.
>
> The "Bambi" team, Gordon - N1MGO, Charlie - KT1I, Ray- KB1LRL, Pauline - 
> KB1JXJ, and
> others some years!
>
> Thanks for all the contacts over the years!
>
> What would you suggest we use as a name?
>
> Gordon - N1MGO
>
>
> On 28 Feb 2011 at 9:37, Gary AL9A wrote:
>
>> If you want to talk about overkill, then you needed to work the guy who 
>> sent
>> his state as MINNESOTA.  I guess he figures everyone out there is too 
>> dumb
>> to comprehend what MN means despite the fact that we all have to manually
>> type MN in the state field as no amount of mouse clicking is going to 
>> make
>> MINNESOTA fit into a 2 position field!  Another favorite was the guy in 
>> MA
>> sending his name as BAMBI.  Needed lots of AGNs to get that one right.
>> Finally, for those using the first name of AL, don't!  Use ALLEN or ALAN,
>> but please not ALFONSO!
>>
>> 73,
>> Gary AL9A
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Jim Reisert AD1C" <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>
>> To: "RTTY Reflector" <rtty at contesting.com>
>> Sent: February 27, 2011 8:06 PM
>> Subject: Re: [RTTY] Three lessons from NAQP
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C
>> <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>>
>> I forgot one:
>>
>> 4.  Use the standard 2-letter postal abbreviation for your state or
>> province.  Don't spell it out, and don't put punctuation after it!
>> One station sent something like:
>>
>>     <name> SS. <name> SS,
>>
>> so there was no way to click on the state abbreviation (SS) and *not*
>> get the period or comma along with it, at least in WriteLog.
>>
>> I won't even get started about the guy who separated the two copies of
>> his exchange with:
>>
>>     <space><hyphen><space>
>>
>> Talk about overkill!
>>
>> -- 
>> Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us
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