[RTTY] WAE RTTY and QTCs

[Jamie WW3S]

Seriously ?!?!?! To each his own I guess......

On Oct 27, 2016 11:48 PM, Thom <ki8w at ki8w.com> wrote:
>
> Don, 
>
> So I take it your not a Writelog user? 
>
> To me N1MM looks too "cartoonish" for my tastes. 
>
> 73 
>
> Thom KI8W 
>
>
>
> On 10/28/2016 03:45, Don AA5AU wrote: 
> > Larry's tutorial is excellent and how I learned to exchange QTCs with N1MM+. 
> > For WriteLog users, there's a tutorial on how to operate WAE with WriteLog here: 
> > http://www.rttycontesting.com/tutorials/writelog2/wae-rtty/ 
> > 
> > 73, Don AA5AU 
> > 
> >   
> >        From: Larry Gauthier (K8UT) <K8UT at charter.net> 
> >   To: rtty at contesting.com; Thom <ki8w at ki8w.com> 
> >   Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2016 9:51 AM 
> >   Subject: Re: [RTTY] WAE RTTY and QTCs 
> >     
> > Thom, 
> > 
> > Sending/Receiving QTCs can be a complicated for new RTTY contesters. If 
> > you're using N1MM Logger, you can find an instructional video for RTTY QTCs 
> > here: 
> > 
> > http://n1mm.hamdocs.com/tiki-index.php?page=Instructional+Videos 
> > 
> > -larry (K8UT) 
> > -----Original Message----- 
> > From: Thom 
> > Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2016 8:55 AM 
> > To: rtty at contesting.com 
> > Subject: Re: [RTTY] WAE RTTY and QTCs 
> > 
> > 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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