[RTTY] RTTY Contest Operating

[Michael Adams]

Strangely, I went the other direction, from 3 to 2, and didn't see too much of an increase in requests for repeats (I'm always LP).

I end up doing something like this:

599 001 001 N1EN
    AGN? 
001 001 001
   AGN?
001 001 001 001 001 001

...although if we've struggled on getting my call I might jump straight to a quasi-exchange of "599 001 001 N1EN 001 001 001" to spare the probable request for a repeat.   Odd format I realize, but I don't want to overcomplicate my macro set.

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Michael Adams | N1EN | mda at n1en.org


-----Original Message-----
From: RTTY [mailto:rtty-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Jeff AC0C
Sent: Thursday, 18 February, 2016 14:53
To: ed at w0yk.com; 'RTTY Reflector' <rtty at contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [RTTY] RTTY Contest Operating

I can see Bill's point.  Do it once with what is clearly overkill but then you can be sure it's done.

I don’t' have to send repeats too much and in that case, I find 3x on the resend of the exchange to work good for me.  But I don't have any hard data - it just seems like I moved to 3x from 2x a while back because I had to repeat the 2x a couple of times too many.  For ed, who generally has a 6-digit exchange from running 100K Q's each contest, keeping the repeat count low avoids a 60-second long transmission cycle (ha ha).

I wonder what Don AA5AU has for repeat count?  He's generally running LP and does not have Ed's favored QTH so his experience may be closer to what the average guy would encounter.

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