[RTTY] Take Two RTTY Exchange

[Hank Garretson]

Hee hee. I swatted a hornets nest with this one. Good discussion.

> My exchange for RTTY Roundup was 599 CA.
> >
> > With 1250 contacts, I got request for state repeat only four times. I
> > haven't run the math, but I'm pretty sure that I came out ahead.
>
> But how do you know your "CA" wasn't garbled into CO, IA, CT, MA or
> whatever?
>

I don't for sure. But I made 623 contacts in the 2011 Roundup. My Log Check
Report says I lost 4 Qs because I copied the other guys' calls incorrectly.
I lost 5 Qs because I copied the other guys' exchanges incorrectly. And, I
lost 2 QSOs because I wasn't in the other guys' logs.

My LCR says only two blokes copied my exchange incorrectly:

14081 RY 2011-01-08 2353 XXXX            NV W6SX            VA  should be CA
 7053 RY 2011-01-09 0044 XXXX            NJ W6SX            VA  should be CA

The Nevada station is a friend, so I suspect he just mistyped or was
watching football while contesting.

W6SX sending 599 CA apparently resulted in two guys who submitted logs
miscopying my state. That's considerably less than the eleven contacts I
lost because of my errors.

*The first rule of contesting is to have fun!*

73,

Hank, W6SX

Mammoth Lakes, California

Elevation 8083 feet in John Muir's Range of Light