[RTTY] WPX funnies

[G. E. Janssens]

I must say I saw the most "creative" macro in this past CQWPX.

I'd been calling CQ on a nice, clear frequency on 15 or 20 for a while. With 
my cloudburner antenna, that's a joy to have!

Then, all of a sudden, someone starts calling CQ on that frequency. I 
ignored it for a while, thinking maybe someone may have made a mistake. And 
I continued with my CQ.

But the guy was persistent, and kept calling CQ, with almost perfect timing, 
alternating my CQs. So I figured he didn't hear me, and I kept CQing, to see 
if - eventually - other callers (for me or him) would screw up his/my 
rhythm.

Turned out, after some listening, that he was callling ME! His macro was 
something like "CQ CQ WPX RTTY KU5Z KU5Z de xxxxx xxxxxxx  xxxxxx CQ"!!!! 
That was his way of calling me!

Crazy. I can't remember the call, nor do I want to. But surely some of you 
must have seen that too...

73,

Erik "lazy birthday bum" - K5WW

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Kolarik" <rkolarik at neb.rr.com>
To: "RTTY" <rtty at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 10:41 PM
Subject: [RTTY] WPX funnies


> Okay the usual lack of spaces, linefeeds, and your choice
> of hypen or space but this was a new one:
> YOUR CALL 599 001 001 KXXX
> On the repeat "YOUR CALL" was replaced with my call???
> I couldn't tell if the other side needed my call but sent
> his exchange anyway or if this was some sort of macro malfunction.
> Then it happened 2 or 3 more times so my vote is for the macro.
> Anyone know which software could have caused this?
>
> Ron
> K0IDT
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