[RTTY] Contest Behavior

[BILL ENGLISH]

That is one of my pet peeves, when people assume they have a band
commanding signal. Then you don't get their report, you sent them a report
and they send 73 GL and QSY. I have not logged many QSOs because of this
arrogant behavior.

Speaking of contest protocols, I wish more people would end their CQ's with
either CQ or TEST and please not use K. I often tune by a station calling
CQ and all I hear is the tail end and get "W4ABC K" I have to sit and wait
for the guy to call CQ again, or as is more often the case, tune on to the
next one. A simple W4ABC CQ would get us both a fast QSO.

Also with QRM sometimes it is hard to hear your call at the beginning of
the report when someone comes back to your call. To make things easier I
wish more people would send their reports as W4ABC 599 001 001 W4ABC  A lot
of guys use this protocol, and man what a difference it makes, I wish more
would adopt it.

Good luck and see you all in a little while.

Bill K4FX

On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 1:48 AM, BILL ENGLISH <bill at k4fx.net> wrote:

> That is one of my pet peeves, when people assume they have band commanding
> signal. Then you don't get their report, you sent them a report and they
> send 73 GL and QSY. I have not logged many QSOs because of this
> arrogant behavior.
>
> Speaking of contest protocols, I wish more people would end their CQ's
> with either CQ or TEST and please not use K. I often tune by a station
> calling CQ and all I hear is the tail end and get "W4ABC K" I have to sit
> and wait for the guy to call CQ again, or as is more often the case, tune
> on to the next one. A simple W4ABC CQ would get us both a fast QSO.
>
> Also with QRM sometimes it is hard to hear your call at the beginning of
> the report when someone comes back to your call. To make things easier I
> wish more people would send their reports as W4ABC 599 001 001 W4ABC  A lot
> of guys use this protocol, and man what a difference it makes, I wish more
> would adopt it.
>
> Good luck and see you all in a little while.
>
> Bill K4FX
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 1:13 AM, Jim W7RY <w7ry at centurytel.net> wrote:
>
>> I simply call them thieves!
>>
>> See you this weekend!!
>>
>> 73
>> Jim W7RY
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message----- From: Gary AL9A
>> Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2013 10:06 PM
>> To: RTTY Contesting
>>
>> Subject: Re: [RTTY] Contest Behavior
>>
>> I call them "drive-bys" - they fire all their bullets and then leave the
>> scene ASAP!
>>
>> 73,
>> Gary AL9A
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Stai" <wk6i.jeff at gmail.com>
>> To: "Alejandro XE1EE" <xe1ee at telmexmail.com>
>> Cc: "RTTY-reflektorn" <rtty at contesting.com>
>> Sent: February 07, 2013 7:38 PM
>> Subject: Re: [RTTY] Contest Behavior
>>
>>
>> I call those folks "fire hoses", blasting it all at once. They are usually
>> as easy to ignore as a persistent dupe, but a Q is a Q. Work and move
>> on...
>> except there is one guy who does this to try and steal your frequency by
>> calling CQ after you send your exchange. That's special. ;)
>>
>> Have fun! - jeff wk6i
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 4:35 PM, Alejandro XE1EE <xe1ee at telmexmail.com
>> >wrote:
>>
>>  About the suggestions, I’d like to recommend this:
>>>
>>>
>>> If I’m calling CQ TEST, don’t do this:
>>>
>>> CQ TEST de XE1EE XE1EE TEST
>>> XE1EE 599 231 231 de W#ABC.
>>> Pease don’t assume I heard you (maybe I am) but I’ll ignore you until you
>>> follow the protocol of a QSO
>>>
>>> DE W#ABC W#ABC
>>> W#ABC 599 623 623 TU
>>> XE1EE 599 023 de W#ABC
>>>
>>> It’s not hard to follow the protocol right?
>>>
>>> Or.. Am I becoming Grumpy??? (I’m just 45) I hope I don’t hi hi
>>>
>>> *********************
>>> XE1EE
>>> Alejandro Valdez
>>> www.dxxe.org
>>> www.qsl.net/xe1ee
>>> Twitter: @xe1ee
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