[RTTY] RBN CQ Spotting

[Jim W7RY]

The DE is absolutely not necessary. Please remove it.  A space before your 
first CQ would be good too.

73
Jim W7RY


-----Original Message----- 
From: Tim Shoppa
Sent: Friday, October 16, 2015 5:55 AM
To: rtty at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [RTTY] RBN CQ Spotting

> %RCQ CQ DE VK4UC VK4UC  %E

I think that translates as "start with CRLF and end with trailing space".
That ought to be good. DE is not be necessary but I don't think it hurts.

What may be a more likely reason you are not getting spotted - RTTY skimmer
coverage has improved greatly in past year or two. But it is not yet
pervasive. Not all RTTY skimmers cover all legal RTTY frequencies with same
effectiveness. For example in CQ WW RTTY I found that the EU skimmers
covered 14080-14100 well, but not above 14100. Same for 21080-21100. At
same time, several W7 skimmers did cover 14100-14150 and 21100-21150 well.

For bands like 40M and 80M where the RTTY bandplan is often different
between IARU R1, R2, R3, there may be even wider variations in what
frequencies are covered.

Some skimmers may have directional antennas not pointed in effective
directions for VK at right time.

Tim N3QE
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