[RTTY] My FT-950's RTTY power level admonition

[John Barber]

I suspect they are the ones who send 599-101-102 GW0A. Strong signal,
perfect copy, 2 different SNs. 
John GW4SKA

-----Original Message-----
From: RTTY [mailto:rtty-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Jeff AC0C
Sent: 16 February 2016 17:24
To: Ian White <gm3sek at ifwtech.co.uk>; rtty at contesting.com
Cc: 'John Barber' <john at bordertech.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [RTTY] My FT-950's RTTY power level admonition

The guys keying into the K3 are slow - especially if they make a mistake on
sending their SN.  But my hope is that after playing with the toy-K3 keying
method, they get seduced by RTTY contesting and start using a proper setup. 
At least that's my hope.

73/jeff/ac0c
www.ac0c.com
alpha-charlie-zero-charlie

-----Original Message-----
From: Ian White
Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2016 10:42 AM
To: rtty at contesting.com
Cc: 'John Barber'
Subject: Re: [RTTY] My FT-950's RTTY power level admonition

GW4SKA wrote:
>6 seconds between CQs is a long time. 2.5 to 3 seconds is plenty.
>In a big contest you could lose your run frequency in 6 seconds
!!!!!!!!!!

In a big CW contest, maybe, but in RTTY we usually get a few seconds more
[1].

However, there does seem to be an ever-widening gap between the serious RTTY
contesters and the much larger number of casual datamode operators.
I'm getting increasingly impatient with the long stretches of "dead air"
that some operators always leave before coming back (what are they doing in
this time?) and then it's always with a relatively low serial number.


But worst of all are those painful, limping QSOs with people who are very
obviously using a Morse key into a K3/KX3. One hates to discourage them...
but...



[1] "Me and My Run Frequency" - http://tinyurl.com/hdt9wrm


73 from Ian GM3SEK


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