[RTTY] Waterfall and CQ conundrum

[Dave Hachadorian]

Alex, VE3NEA, is the guy who writes the Skimmer code.

He has made two postings in this thread, which, if I understand them correctly, are as follows:
If CQ'ing stations want to put the letters CQ at the end of their CQ message, they should consider changing to "CQ{period}"  That is “CQ.”  Alex says the program will ignore that three-character string.

Stations who are S&P’ing should send a CR/LF before their call sign.  Alex says that would be helpful.

Alex is also working on other methods to improve the CQ/S&P uncertainty.

Dave Hachadorian, K6LL
Yuma, AZ





-----Original Message----- 
From: Jeff Rinehart via RTTY 
Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2016 8:00 AM 
To: rtty at contesting.com 
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Waterfall and CQ conundrum 

Ok - so don't use QRZ - got that - Test is too long -  got that too.  So, if we don't use CQ and Test is too long, what is the alternative other than just waiting for the Skimmer folks to figure it out?
I don't use Skimmer myself but I can appreciate it's value.  Whether or not a person uses Skimmer isn't the issue if I understand it right.  It's this thing of Skimmer picking up CQ just in front of a S&P'ers callsign and then posting that on the cluster as someone's Run frequency when actually that callsign should only be associated with the S&P'er.  Am I still confused?  or just Dense!  I Do want to operate correctly even though I am just a Little Pistol providing contacts for the Big Boys!  I am posting this because there are, no doubt, lots of others out there reading this who are just too shy to say anything.  de W4PJW
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