[RTTY] Macros again

[john at kk9a.com]

I try to also operate efficiently using the same format as Ed,  except I 
omit the ending CQ on SSB and CW (as I am sure he does) and in heavy rate 
situations I also omit the TU.   I can't control what other people send and 
I am happy that they are working me, however, I have noticed something on 
RTTY that I haven't seen on any other mode.  Stations occasionally send a 
callsign <his call> that is totally different than mine when working me. 
Sometimes it is the call sign of the last station that I worked and 
sometimes it is some other random callsign, perhaps the last person that 
they worked  My guess is they have not entered my callsign yet in into their 
logging software and they just get confused who is running on the frequency. 
I know that they are working me and not working someone else on my 
frequency.  I do send CQ after my callsign on RTTY so I don't understand the 
confusion or know how to handle it.  Usually I work them and hope that they 
straighten out their log afterwards.  I'm not sure how the log checking 
process handles this if they enter the callsign of my previous contact 
instead of mine.  One problem with having <his call> in a macro is that you 
need the call before you can work him.  I sometimes work stations before 
knowing or entering their full callsign.

John KK9A / P40A


To: <rtty at contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Macros again
From: "Ed Muns" <ed at w0yk.com>
Reply-to: ed at w0yk.com
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 08:29:22 -0800

The other station's call sign has already been sent with your exchange.  I
seldom send the other station's call sign again in my QSL message.  I
typically send the same thing that I, and most everyone, sends on CW or SSB:

TU W0YK CQ

If I sense there might be confusion, then I pre-pend this message with the
<his call> message, but this is very rare.  Sure, there is always
possibility for confusion, but my error rate and dupe rate clearly indicate
that it is unnecessary to send the other station's call sign in every QSL
message.

Ed - W0YK