[RTTY] bizarre exchange

[Jeff Blaine]

Not sure Buddy, the period thing is used a lot by guys who are not familiar 
with the traditional exchanges.  They will catch on eventually.  I work them 
all, but I don't stop to give any advice.  I already trail Don by a good 40% 
and if I stopped to give advice, I would behind 50%!

73/jeff/ac0c
www.ac0c.com
alpha-charlie-zero-charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: F.R. Ashley
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 4:22 PM
To: Jeff Blaine ; rtty at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [RTTY] bizarre exchange

Jeff,


I saw several stations, when replying to me, put a period before their
callsign.   Such as .WB4M 599 NC.   Any idea what that was about?

73 Buddy WB4M



-----Original Message----- 
From: Jeff Blaine
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 2:15 PM
To: rtty at contesting.com
Subject: [RTTY] bizarre exchange

There was one station who replied 599 in text, and then a sequence of
dash-dot (-.-.  etc) in his exchange.  Wondered if any one else saw that?

Initially I thought I had some UOS or other strangeness but when I ask for a
repeat, he came back with the same thing.  Later I got to thinking he was
writing out his state in code.  The dash/dot combo worked out to be the
state.

Usual problem of a lot of guys without a space after their exchange.  And
what seemed to be a lot more “wide” signals than what I remembered in the CQ
DX.  But that CW translated into –/. thing has got to be the weirdest
exchange I’ve seen in a long time.

73/jeff/ac0c
www.ac0c.com
alpha-charlie-zero-charlie

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