[RTTY] Wait...

[Ktfrog007 at aol.com]

I think certain of those delays are just because some logging  or other 
anomaly occurred and the op is making a manual correction.  In a  smoothly 
flowing marco run, anything that disrupts the flow seems to take  forever.  When 
this kind of thing happens due to me, I feel bad about  the lag and get all 
nervous making the fix because I know the confusion and  uncertainty on the 
other end.  I experience it too when it happens to  me.  The agony of dead 
air.
 
73,
Ken, AB1J
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 7/20/2015 21:01:46 GMT Standard Time,  
keepwalking188 at ac0c.com writes:

I don't  get the nod-off - but my affliction is a sort of mental thousand 
yard  glare that last for a minute, typically occurring on the far end of 
the  
contest as my body is telling my caffeine soaked brain that I really  
should 
stop this nonsense and assume a horizontal position like other sane  humans.

Any time I see a slow reply, I just figure the guy has the same  sort's of 
issues that I'm having.  Like correcting call signs, or to  get my cursor 
moved to the state because I just dumped the guy's name into  the state 
column or a lot of other keyboard/mouse/mental gymnastic  failures.  The 
lower the band, the worse the prop, the more QRM, the  longer into the 
contest it is - the worse it becomes.  I am pretty  sure that the other guy 
is not choosing to make me wait just for the heck  of it.

If all excuses are to be declared illegitimate - then I would  expect a 
fellow's going to have a pretty poor contest experience just  about every 
time  out.

73/jeff/ac0c