[RTTY] WHY put CQ at the end?

[Jeff Stai]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 12:21 PM, Wes Cosand <wz7i at arrl.net> wrote:

> I apologize for the lack of definition in the manual.   If CQOnly=1 then
> only calls thought to be "CQ" calls are transmitted through the telnet port
> of RTTY Skimmer Server.  But the normal way these calls reach the RBN and
> the internet is through the "Aggregator", an excellent piece of software
> written by Dick, W3OA, that sits on the computer with RTTY Skimmer Server.
> Aggregator sends only CQ calls through to the RBN with the exception of
> calls in a list of CW beacons.  The comment field of every RTTY spot you
> see from the internet should say "CQ".
>
> The CQOnly=0 is useful for local use in diagnosing problems but these spots
> should never reach the internet.
>
> I despair of every truly solving this problem unless the use of CR/LF
> becomes ubiquitous.
>
>
No worries Wes, actually this is a very readable and understandable manual.
I'm just making the observation that, now that the RTTY Skimmer is in the
wild, you may have users who accepted the default setting and have
connected their server to the world. Thus we see spots of non-CQ calls.

I do hope to set this up one day myself.

On the subject of CRLF at the end of transmission, I like to think I pay
somewhat attention, but this is the first time I've seen it brought up. For
years the "standard" I followed was "CRLF at the start, space at the end".
Most of the guides out there implore ops to put a space the end.

If it makes skimmers more useful and reliable to put CRLF at the end (and
count on our modern decoders to strip it out) then it sounds like we need
to go on a campaign!

73 jeff wk6i


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