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

[Ed Muns]

I hope these painful operators keep coming back in future contests.  If so, then they will likely evolve to the better contest operating techniques the rest of us should be displaying.  Let's not discourage them before they have a chance to learn.

73,
Ed W0YK
On Feb 16, 2016 11:42 AM, Ian White <gm3sek at ifwtech.co.uk> wrote:
>
> 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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