[RTTY] CQ at the end

[W0MU Mike Fatchett]

I start and end my CQ with CQ.  Could we dump the 1st CQ?  That would be 
great.

At the end of a contact I would sign QRZ? along with most.

What I find with RTTY is the qsos are all timing.  You get into 
rhythms.  When the Rhythm is out of sync you know to look for issues.

I never changed up my exchanges.  I sacrificed speed for reliabilty and 
good contacts.  Some really strong guys would dump calls only once and 
only give rst and # once.  Most sent RST and # #.  One person sent RST a 
bunch of times.........weird.

Most of the exchanges were all very similar ie

someone called me I would send hiscall 599 # # hiscall  the reply was 
generally mycall report hiscall.

This is all very important when tuning across contacts to understand who 
you are hearing.  Similar to CW and RTTY Sprints where the last call you 
should hear is the person that has the freq.

I think you are asking for trouble if you expect everyone to program in 
lf/cr in their reports.  I have plenty of contacts that were done on the 
fly with the TX buttons on their end or sequences and lf/cr's that were 
over done.

What I did notice is that more and more people are adopting very similar 
CQ's, reports, exchanges, which I think makes for a better contest and 
more reliable exchanges.

My apologies to Ed P49X as almost every one of our contacts I had some 
thing bad happen.  Amp clicked off in the middle but he still heard me 
and other stupid things.  Rather embarrassing to say the least.

-- 
Mike W0MU