[RTTY] Friend File

[Claude Du Berger]

What I do, I use  NAME  in a special macro to be used ONLY with specific
station, not all and I use it only when I am in RUN/CQ mode.

73, Claude VE2FK


From: Scott Schultz 
Sent: Saturday, February 06, 2016 9:59 AM
To: rtty at contesting.com 
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Friend File

I am a little confused....

Wasn't it just a few weeks ago that there was a rather spirited discussion 
about paring down our contest macros to the absolute barest minimum 
information by omitting unnecessary superfluous data? It seemed that there 
were some here who would have a major meltdown whenever they saw someone 
send their state or section three times instead of just two or repeating the 
signal report when they were asked AGN? by the other station?

I used the friend.ini back when WF1B was "the" RTTY contest software and I 
am sure that is where this file has its origins but I stopped using it long 
ago because so many people were so absolutely outraged that I was sending 
much more than was needed for the exchange.

I guess what I am saying is that some of us may be unnecessarily agonizing 
over shaving milliseconds off of our macros when it really does not make 
that much of a difference. Who knows... maybe after 20 years, I will put the 
friend.ini macros back into my exchanges!

73,
de Scott N0IU