[RTTY] WAE RTTY and QTCs

[Thom]

Well the WAE Contest is still a couple week away so I am leaving the 
door open for a possible participation.

73

Thom KI8W


On 10/27/2016 12:52, Dave Barr wrote:
> I have been doing QTCs in the WAE for several years because it is fun 
> and it raises my score to one I'd never be able to achieve running 
> QRP, as I usually do.  I _always_ ask to receive QTCs, never to send, 
> since my QRP signal is usually too weak for reliable and reasonably 
> quick transmission of QTCs to another station.   I noticed in my log 
> report for 2015 that I had about a 7% error rate in receiving QTCs 
> (which of course has nothing to do with my running 5 watts).  Is this 
> an unusually high error rate, or is it simply that there is so much 
> chance for undetectable errors in the time (as long as its within 
> sequence), call suffix and serial numbers sent?
>
> Dave, K2YG
>
>
>> Thom
>> I hear you.
>> May be blasphemous to say it, but you can participate without the QTC 
>> thing.
>> Your score will be relatively low but still fun.
>> I started doing the QTC thing last year at the urging of K2YG and 
>> once you set up the macros I found that it is not that difficult and 
>> makes it interesting.
>> 73
>> Al
>> K2AL
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>>> On Oct 26, 2016, at 9:44 PM, Thom <ki8w at ki8w.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I thought about running WAE RTTY but this QTC thing has me totally 
>>> confused.  Right now, with my current state of mind, I do not need 
>>> more complication in my RTTY operations.  Maybe next year.  Good 
>>> luck in the contest,  all.
>>>
>>> 73
>>>
>>> Thom KI8W
>>>
>>>
>>>
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