[RTTY] The RTTY efficiency myth and SUPERFILL

[Dave Greig]

John I also send TU in contests for the same reason.

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On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 5:24 PM, john <w8wej at citynet.net> wrote:

> with great reluctance,,, I was going to eliminate  the "TU" in the
> exchange---I have always felt, and still feel  that the rtty bunch is the
> nicest group of competitors that I have ever encountered, and,,, always
> felt pleasure in expressing my  thanks of a  contest qso by a "TU"--
>  I understand the need for speed and a "TU" multiplier by hundreds of
> times  would eat up time for  the big gun contester--   I get that,,,but
> still we, the rtty folks are a unique group--I feel notches above the
> average,,, I hate to see that being lost--as I write this,,, I want to go
> back to my roots--a "TU" is needed to remind the big guns,and everyone, if
> it were not for us little shots,,big gamers  would have very few folk  to
> work,..
> get over it--the "TU"    is staying  in to my macros--
> a matter of perspective.  If we can not take time to appreciate and
> acknowledge  the efforts of others, is a shame, for all of us,,,
> ,It is, or at least , should be a hobby,,,please lets keep it that
> way....see you this weekend  with a "TU"
>
> 73 and "good luck in the contest"
> john
>
>
>
>
>
> On 7/16/2014 16:42, Tim Shoppa wrote:
>
>> In a real RTTY contest, the "PLEASE COPY" is surprisingly rare. (It was
>> pretty common on field day, which thank God is not an actual contest!)
>>
>> More common in real RTTY contests, are long preambles of punctuation
>> especially from EU contesters, and/or canned macros that greet me as
>> "Timothy" from a licensing database every time I ask for a fill. I don't
>> mind the guys who call me by name in exchange because they actually know
>> me, that's fine.
>>
>> On the subject of asking for a fill... I saw on several occasions "PLEASE
>> MORE NR" in the DL RTTY contest a few weekends ago. That was very pleasing
>> to see! Asking for a fill in marginal conditions, and getting a long
>> canned
>> macro that prints fine except for the actual variable exchange info which
>> was only sent once, is very frustrating!
>>
>> I would encourage anyone setting up macros for CW or RTTY contesting, to
>> include a button for "superfill", where the variable exchange info is
>> repeated many times over. This is what I set up for that DL contest, I
>> encourage this become part of any standard contest macro package:
>>
>> F6 Superfill, {TX}{ENTER}{EXCH} {EXCH} {EXCH} {EXCH} {EXCH} {EXCH} {EXCH}
>> {EXCH}{RX}
>>
>> In the past Ed W0YK and others have tried to steer folks to "modular
>> macros". In my modular macro setup, I can use the macro keys to make any
>> initial exchange have multiple repeats of actual variable exchange
>> depending on conditions/QRM. I will generally send the variable exchange
>> info twice in the initial exchange except under the most optimal
>> conditions, because that is more efficient than having to give fills.
>>
>> Tim.
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