[RTTY] I had a reply in the contest from a fellow using cw forrtty

[Rick]

Gary - wait until they really push Speech-to-diddle or speech-to-CW !!!
Remember where you heard it first !

I can see it now, some guy yelling at his cat to get off his rotator !!
Might be more bloopers than VOX

Rick - WU6W

-----Original Message-----
From: RTTY [mailto:rtty-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Gary AL9A
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013 6:22 PM
To: rtty at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [RTTY] I had a reply in the contest from a fellow using cw
forrtty

So that's it!  I worked several stations in the WPX RTTY that had a weird
pace to the diddles being sent .  It was sort of like a surge that would
turn on and then suddenly turn off again.  Several characters, pause, some
more characters, pause then a few more, pause.  What a PITA to listen to! 
Why would anyone in their right mind want to consider using paddles to send
diddles instead of a keyboard?  It may serve a purpose in an emergency
situation where no keyboard is available, but in a contest it is less than
useless.  Just because the radio has some ridiculous functionality put into
the rig by the marketing department doesn't mean the owner has to use it!


73,
Gary AL9A



----- Original Message -----
From: "Kok Chen" <chen at mac.com>
To: "bill" <bill at w9ol.com>
Cc: <rtty at contesting.com>
Sent: February 10, 2013 4:10 PM
Subject: Re: [RTTY] I had a reply in the contest from a fellow using cw
forrtty


> He is probably using a K3, Bill.
>
> In fact, if you think back, was the "9" of your call sign slightly 
> delayed?
>
> The K3 has this abortion (there is no other way to describe it) where 
> you place the rig into FSK mode and use a paddle to send RTTY.
>
> (It won't work with a straight key, since the firmware is looking for 
> the left and right paddle to recognize a character.  Won't work in 
> AFSK
> either.)
>
> So, a "9" will take longer time to arrive unless the guy is doing 100 
> WPM on his paddle.  And if you listen carefully, what you will hear is 
> "W<beeep>9OL" because the K3 is stupid enough to wait for the 9 to 
> finish and does not put out a diddle in the meantime.
>
> If you remember, Phil GU0SUP mentioned some years ago hearing what 
> sound like slow, stuttery RTTY, but copies at 45.45 baud.  That was a K3.
>
> If I were you, I would have sent "SRI, YOU HAVE BROKEN RIG. QRZ W9OL"
>
> 73
> Chen, W7AY
>
>
>
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