[RTTY] SO2R

[Michael Schulz]

One thing I'd like to add would be the suggestion to *not* use 59914 but
rather 599 14 in the exchange. That why 
one can just click on it in MMTTY for example and N1MM+ populates it. The
string together doesn't seem to work.

73 Mike K5TRI

> -----Original Message-----
> From: RTTY [mailto:rtty-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of David G3YYD
> Sent: Monday, September 28, 2015 12:23 PM
> To: rtty at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [RTTY] SO2R
> 
> As a SO2R operator the CQ call is key. If made too short, for instance CQ
M7T,
> then it does not give enough time for a complete reply to my CQ call on
the
> other radio to be made. The idea is to time it so as soon as one radio has
> finished it is time to transmit on the other.
> 
> As a consequence I use CQ M7T M7T M7T CQ this gives sufficient time for
> someone to call me on the other radio with GM3XXX GM3XXX. Then there is
> no apparent delay in my answer to GM3XXX and it allows me to send
> GM3XXX 59914 GM3XXX, While someone is calling me on the other radio in
> response to my CQ call.
> 
> Of course it falls apart if someone calls me after a CQ with M7T M7T de
> GM3XXX GM3XXX GM3XXX PSE K which unfortunately too many people do. I
> know my call so please do not send it and de is a total waste of time as
for
> PSE K enough said. If you have a call that is GM3XXX then twice is
sufficient if
> you have a short callsign like my contest call then M7T three times is OK.
> 
> Then at the end of the contact I reply GM3XXX TU M7T QRZ again
sufficiently
> long to enable someone to call me on the other radio or send the exchange
> so I can reply to them without any apparent delay.
> 
> I also make use of the ESC key to cut short messages on a radio so I can
> initiate the reply on the other radio faster. So for instance CQ maybe
> truncated so it becomes CQ M7T M7T.
> 
> By the way if you think SO2R is complex then I also operate the radios
second
> receivers as well when a contest slows up.
> 
> 73 David G3YYD aka M7T in contests
> 
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