[RTTY] RTTY Contest Operating

[iw1ayd - Salvatore Irato]

Well ...
Hank please consider what I am writing here down.
Phil please don't go that much further. Even small pills, just 10 S&P 
contest QSO, may have positive effects.

We all have meters in front of us when in shack or elsewhere. That's the 
"RTTY Message Length Calculator".
Thanks to the work of David - KJ4IZW and the credited suggestions by 
/Chen - W7AY, we have that metering tool on hands.
Out of, it the discussions around old and new ideas for whatever is 
better, wrong or worst will continue forever, as fishermen tales.
That's the good way to be a community, indeed much more than a Social 
community.

I see here whatever could be a bunch of ways as to be more proficient 
and elegant, effective with pleasure and efficiency, for my hobby.
I see here peoples, that I would never meet face to face, that have 
invaluable inheritable items. Both, wrong and right.
I see here peoples that give out metrics that will permit, by myself or 
again with the help of an older or the next message, to apply that 
metering technique to what I see on air.

That's the way to try cleverly to rediscover what elsewhere discovered 
and to apply it DXing, Contesting or simply having QSO.

This is plainly recognizable by several aspect. One of these, just to 
say is well seen when 5 over 10 RTTY operators when in Contest or not 
will call me back sounding like this:

IW1AYD IW1AYD DE FA1KE FA1KE FA1KE

Well, W-lands and JA-lands, make the number, 5/10, dropping  to a mere 
1/10. But EUs, any side, have even more numbers.
Now I have not to explain that this is a deprecated answer pattern, much 
more useful to force the QRG hogging than any other.
But still when Contesting or simply CQing I get those answers. Even if 
we are discussing about duplicated shift-letters control characters or 
USOS ... I still get "just in case you don't know yours call" silly 
answerback ... ;-)

So, don't shoot the meter nor who is making different things, perhaps 
coming from other sides. At least here or on air.

I will be of any help for any one, asking QRZ? QRZ? twice before to fire 
my ...
PSE DR OM UR QSA IS TOO WEAK HERE TRY AGN LATER ON TU IW1AYD
Yes, when in contest, when having a fast as I could operating time, I am 
still "festina lente". That mean, this time, to be fast with awareness 
of anyone or anything around. Being fast but not to drive into anyone 
and several others.
That OM that is frantically calling me in but is unacknowledged as I 
could not decode that weak signal deserve all my attention.
Much more of who is calling onto the exchange of anyone other and will 
not come back when I TU NOW HISCALL.
I hate those peoples that will not come back ... but that also could be 
my next multiplier, or as in Volta my Continental Multiplier.
Just the same as the one I fired that long macro, all together.
All together with that JA, great one, that gifted me a 001 on the last 
out of a Contest. All together.

I have had the pleasure to setup N1MM+ with MMTTY and 2Tone for 3 
evenings to a remote, for me, OM here in Italy. He made 200 QSO in the 
WPX. My contest wasn't only what I had done at the Club Station nearby. 
It was also what I have done at the home of this OM, with his 200 S&P 
QSO and the debriefing we had just after him setup to send in the log.

All together, we like to write about fishes and how to catch the lunch 
as fishermen.

    Diddling with pleasure and exuberantly all together.

                 73 de iw1ayd Salvo

/PS hope that my poor English will sound much better than my RTTY :-)

On 18/02/2016 23:46, Phil Sussman wrote:
> Oh, Hank,
>
> Just think, one more bit and your life is over. Golly, what if you
> had to check what you send to make sure it is the absolute minimum
> required, or you will no longer be able to participate in the contest.
>
> Hey, wait, how about if you send an extra bit, you must apply a penalty
> to every QSO that you work. Perhaps 5 points off for every wasted bit
> that you send.
>
> Now you can see why I shy away from contests -- to the WARC bands.
>
> 73 de Phil - N8PS
>
>
>
>
> Quoting Hank Garretson <w6sx at arrl.net>:
>
>> http://dwestbrook.net/projects/ham/rtty-length/?msg=&stop_bits=1&usos=1&mode=RTTY 
>>
>>
>>
>> Very nice tool which has its uses, but I gently suggest it can 
>> distract us
>> from what's important.
>>
>> The idea is not to necessarily shorten what you send. The idea is to 1.
>> Make what you send "easy copy" for the other guy, and 2. Tailor what you
>> send to to the circumstances of each QSO so you complete the contact in
>> shipshape fashion as quickly as possible.
>>
>> Diddle Exuberantly,
>>
>> Hank, W6SX
>>
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