[RTTY] RTTY Newbie and brag files

[Phil Snyder]

When time allows, usually a Sunday morning, I will get on 15 or 17 and CQ somewhere between EU and Africa on RTTY. I am always fully prepared to get into a ragchew with anyone who cares to, or cares to try and decipher my typing. More often than not though they just want a 599 and they are gone. I had 5B4AHL answer my CQ on 17 meters last July. We tried to have at least a short ragchew but apparently there are quite a few folks that need Cyprus on 17 RTTY. He apologized to me and went on his way and I see in the log that I continued and worked a couple more before quitting myself. I guess that might be a reason for IDing only as often as you legally have to in a ragchew scenario.


Phil
N9LAH


On 3/1/2011 6:22 PM, Peter Laws wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 11:42, Kok Chen<chen at mac.com>  wrote:
>> On Mar 1, 2011, at 3/1    8:22 AM, Roger Cooke wrote:
>>
>>> Actually, we scoff at brag tapes and so on, but in essence they are
>>> not that much different from a normal QSO, in which we exchange
>>> names, locations, antennas, gear, but stop at Aunt Nellie's cat or
>>> our birthdays!
>> I am one of those who scoff at brag tapes.  So much so that, to
>
> I used to have one until this came up on this list last time (2 years
> ago, maybe?).  Deleted it then and there.
>
> In fairness, it didn't get used a lot.  I mostly do contests, where I
> need that "useless" exchange to prove a valid contact and get the
> point/mult or for adding New Ones, where I really only need to see
> "599 TU".
>
> But I still don't see the point of those long tapes so I don't have one.
>
>