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

[Michael Rapp]

Thanks for the advice all....this clarifies things for me.  I think I
phrased my not giving my report unless I had a high degree of confidence
the running station had my report a little poorly.

I didn't want to imply that I'm going to be calling over and over until I
get a perfect print of my call from them.  That would totally break their
rate and is not nice. :)  In fact, I remember working an Italian station
this past weekend who was weak (on my end).  My call was slightly garbled,
but I didn't call twice as I considered that given how fast he came back to
to me and that he most likely has a beam, he probably got my call right.

I suppose what is the best balance is to only call twice if it is
unequivocally clear that the running station has my call wrong.  This would
require perfect print with them using the <my call> RST EXCH EXCH <my call>
macro, and both calls would have to be wrong and identically wrong.

Hmmm... or maybe not.  Let me think through this.  If I am S&Ping, the only
uncertainty is whether or not he got my call correct.  I know his call,
after all, I've been watching him give it multiple times as he runs.  So if
we work and I don't think he got my call correct, as Jerry says, just work
him again.  If that goes well, all is fine.  If in the strange event he
responds back, "QSO B4 or DUPE," then all is still fine as that confirms
that I am in his log correctly (although I have now wasted time figuring
that out).

Oh on the Larsen Rapp thing....I attended my first hamfest very soon after
getting my license in 2012.  I was astounded by the number of people that
came up to me after seeing my nametag and asked me if I was related to
Larsen.  When I tried to find out information about this person, people
would exclaim things like, "A brilliant man!"  "Ahead of his time!" and
"April is a great month!"

I went home thinking that I had some long-lost relative who had been a
mover and shaker in the hobby.  :D   I have to admit, it took me about an
article and a half in the QST archives to clue into what was going on.  :)

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