[RTTY] Simple thing that seemed to improve my S&Ping

[john at kk9a.com]

In most contests you do not loose points if the other station incorrectly
copies your callsign. Personally I do not like when someone holds the
report hostage. On most modes sending your call twice before the report is
a good clue that something is wrong. Unfortunately on RTTY it is common
for people to do this even when the call is received correctly, so getting
their attention may be more challenging. Typically after the report I
think many people stop copying and they may even transmit over you at this
point so sending your call at the end to make a correction is too late.

John KK9A


To:	"rtty at contesting.com" <rtty at contesting.com>
Subject:	[RTTY] Simple thing that seemed to improve my S&Ping
From:	Michael Rapp <mdrapp at gmail.com>
Date:	Sun, 7 Feb 2016 18:31:23 -0600


I had one of those beginner "light bulb" moments for me during the XE
contest.

This was the first contest in which I've operated that accuracy was very
important; if you logged a QSO incorrectly, you are penalized the value of
three equivalent QSOs.  (Log an XE station incorrectly and you lose 12
points as XE's are worth three points each!)

So accuracy was on my mind this contest.  While S&Ping, something that
dramatically improved my accuracy was to never give my exchange unless I
had a high degree of confidence that the running station had my call
correct.  Once I give my exchange, it's essentially all over....the running
station gives his and if my call is wrong, by the time I've figured out how
I want to correct him, he's moved on to someone else and any attempts to
correct just result in chaos.

While I didn't do this next thing during the contest, I think am going to
edit my S&P exchange macro so that it does not have my call at the end.  At
the moment it is, using the XE exchange as an example, 599 041 041 KT5MR.
Under the notion that I only give my exchange if I believe the running
station has my call correct, then giving my call again -- especially just a
single time -- could cause unnecessary confusion if it gets garbled, like
KT9MR or something slight like that.


73,
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