[RTTY] Dropped last character in transmission during RTTYRoundup

[Jim Hargrave]

  > What I did see was people not putting a space at the end of
  > your messages so someone would send CQ and I couldn't get their
  > callsign:
  >
  > CQ RU W1XYZRUVMXOONFEONB

Hi Don,

This has been one of my complaints for a long time. I have
adopted a policy of not even responding to them.
Some folks just don't get the message.
Same applies for name, QTH and Gridsquares. They
all need spaces before/after. Completely negates auto capture.

    73s de Jim
       W5IFP


  > -----Original Message-----
  > From: rtty-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:rtty-bounces at contesting.com]On
  > Behalf Of Don AA5AU
  > Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 10:26 AM
  > To: RTTY Reflector
  > Subject: Re: [RTTY] Dropped last character in transmission during
  > RTTYRoundup
  >
  >
  > I didn't notice this at all, but there could be at least one
  > explanation for some of this.
  >
  > SO2R operators will purposely cut off their transmission in
  > order to transmit on the other radio.  I do this constantly.  
  > If you watch me CQ, you might find me dropping my signal at any
  > time during the message because I don't believe it making
  > anyone wait on the other radio for my report.  Well, someone
  > always has to wait a second or two if there are QSOs occurring
  > on both radios at the same time, but I try to keep the delay at
  > a bare minimum.  RTTY SO2R is at an all-time high right now.
  >
  >
  > What I did see was people not putting a space at the end of
  > your messages so someone would send CQ and I couldn't get their
  > callsign:
  >
  > CQ RU W1XYZRUVMXOONFEONB
  >
  > So I didn't know if it was W1XY or W1XYZ if they weren't in the
  > SCP file.  Overall, I thought everyone was pretty good and the
  > quality of operators is at an all-time high. Probably saw a lot
  > of other stuff too but don't remember them.
  >
  > 73, Don AA5AU
  >
  >
  > >________________________________
  > > From: David Levine <david at levinecentral.com>
  > >To: RTTY Reflector <rtty at contesting.com>
  > >Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 9:50 AM
  > >Subject: [RTTY] Dropped last character in transmission during
  > RTTY Roundup
  > >
  > >Didn't notice this mentioned this week, but in my few hours
  > operating the
  > >RTTY Roundup on Sat & Sun I noticed what seemed to be a few
  > operators that
  > >were plenty loud, but the last character of each line of their
  > macro they
  > >were sending was dropped. When I noticed it, I listened
  > (watched) a couple
  > >of exchanges and it was every single line that the operator
  > would send. I
  > >then noticed it a few more times with different operators over
  > the course
  > >of the weekend. It wasn't that their amp cut out so the last
  > character was
  > >sent "barefoot" but it just wasn't sending.
  > >
  > >With it being noticeable to me in the short time I operated, I was
  > >wondering if anyone else noticed? And was there some systemic
  > problem in a
  > >recently updated version of some popular logging program that
  > was causing
  > >it? I never noticed it before this weekend.
  > >
  > >73,
  > >K2DSL - David
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