[RTTY] RU macros - my views

[iw1ayd - Salvatore Irato]

On 05/01/2015 19:01, Claude Du Berger wrote:
> CQ at the end when in RUN is the best.
> Some use QRZ but QRZ is not a general call,  it is WHO IS CALLING ME?
> You should have heard someone calling to use that... so the S&P guy  
> may still wait and lost time.
> Dont tell me you have use QRZ instead of CQ for 25 years... if so you 
> were wrong all those years.
> In RTTY use CQ at the end of your CQ
> 73, Claude VE2FK
> *From:* David Levine <mailto:david at levinecentral.com>
> *Sent:* Monday, January 05, 2015 12:43 PM
> *To:* iw1ayd at googlemail.com <mailto:iw1ayd at googlemail.com>
> *Cc:* RTTY Reflector <mailto:rtty at contesting.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [RTTY] RU macros - my views
> "The lost CQ", if it means the run station not adding "CQ" at the end of
> their CQ macro, it's my #1 item.
>
> Eg:
> CQ RU XX1XX XX1XX
>
> vs
>
> CQ RU XX1XX XX1XX CQ

I agree since forever, believe me, with you Claude. Sorry David.

But, Claude, I would like to change it to use somewhat more appealing to 
me:

"{CR}TEST IW1AYD IW1AYD CQ ".

That sound like:
TEST IW1AYD IW1AYD CQ YWUYIQSOMENOISE

Shorter for SO2R, still effective for the SKIMMER as TEST is one of the 
understand token.
Last but not least, I have not to change it for any contest ...

I say CQ at the end because when I am RUN I couldn't have any clue of 
whatever is coming.
Any signal that was there could went away.
Any one that was already there will have the same chance to become the 
next as the one that just get into my last CQ.

I say CQ at the end because when I am S&P ... a CQ is a CQ no doubt. It 
says "I am free and willingly". QRZ could mean " ... there is an already 
coming in next ... not you just arrived on me" ...
Hope not to have made all that silly ...

       73 de iw1ayd Salvo

Now let me introduce ...
Better, as I read also last time onto the 2014 Dayton Cont. Univ. 
presentation by Ed Muns, (the sound is) "... wait some seconds after you 
get the first call - if you listen a second caller/signal down. Try to 
catch up with a second call that's getting into. Then answer quickly to 
the first and memorize - in witchever mode you could do it with UR 
logger - the second. Ready to do a TU NOW with this last."
What's better? Honey, not.


             73 de iw1ayd Salvo