[RTTY] Friend File

[Tom Osborne]

That is what I do here, too.

I don't say 'hi' to everyone because I don't know everyone.  If someone is
running, you shouldn't do it, unless  you know them really well, as it just
slows them down.

I can always tell if someone is using the friend file as it will sas 'hi
Thomas', instead of 'Tom', which is what I go by.  73
Tom W7WHY

On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 7:55 AM, Claude Du Berger <
duberger.miousse81 at globetrotter.net> wrote:

> 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
>
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