[RTTY] The RTTY efficiency myth and SUPERFILL

[John L Merrill]

.......and please send the signal report if required :-)!!!

John N1JM

-----Original Message-----
From: RTTY [mailto:rtty-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Ian White
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2014 03:07
To: 'Hank Garretson'
Cc: 'RTTY Reflector'
Subject: Re: [RTTY] The RTTY efficiency myth and SUPERFILL

W6SX wrote:

>
>Absolutely. Keep the TU.
>
>Indeed, TU is equivalent to QSL.
>
>CQ TEST W6SX W6SX CQ
>P40X
>P40X 599 03
>W6SX 599
>P40X TU W6SX CQ
>
>My TU to P40X says Thank You AND QSL, the contact is complete.
>
>Keep the TU.
>

Absolutely! 

A QSO is not complete until BOTH stations have received an acknowledgement
of the information they have sent - which means that the run station must
<send> that final acknowledgement before moving on to the next caller.
Without it, the QSO is incomplete.

Acknowledgement can take many different forms (examples from other modes
include "R", "Roger", "QSL" or "Thank you"). We can debate about how many
characters we wish to spend on this, but we always have to send something,
so the bottom line is at least ONE character. Sending nothing, just moving
on to the next caller, is the wrong side of that line.

This practice of skipping the "ack" comes largely from individuals who feel
that their QSO rate is more important than everyone else's uncertainty about
having made a good QSO. This selfish practice can easily be stamped out by
working those individuals but not logging the QSO. 


73 from Ian GM3SEK


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