[RTTY] Q Rate Killers

[David Tanks]

I can identify or understand how sometimes you have to wait on the other station to reply to you. 

I use N1MM+ and Windows 10. Sometimes when I click on a call or some part of the exchange, I can hear the switch in the mouse click, but the info on the screen is not transferred to the software; then I have to click again, to get it to work. 2 different mice do the same thing, so it is not the mice. At other times, the state ends up in the zone block, and vice versa. How that happens, I don't know, but it takes a good while to straighten that out before I can go back to the other guy. I know he is sitting there gritting his teeth, as he doesn't know why I am not coming back to him immediately. I WANT to be able to reply, but the screw-up is keeping me busy! Anyone have any ideas on why these things are happening? Am I the only one who is seeing this aggravating opertion of the software/computer??
It sure would be a lot smoother if things would work like they are supposed to!
73, David AD4TJ
P.S. I operate only NON-Assisted, so don't have a lot of other stuff running with the N1MM+ program.


      From: Neal Campbell <nealk3nc at gmail.com>
 To: Stanley Zawrotny <k4sbz.stan at gmail.com> 
Cc: RTTY Reflector <RTTY at contesting.com>
 Sent: Monday, September 26, 2016 7:51 PM
 Subject: Re: [RTTY] Q Rate Killers
   
Sorry, its just part of the process, phone contesters talk about the people
who start "please copy..." and I am sure the cw guys have their own list of
pet peeves that the casual ham looking for DX/states offer as operating
style!

Relax and have some fun!


Neal Campbell
Abroham Neal LLC



On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 7:41 PM, Stanley Zawrotny <k4sbz.stan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> A while back, there was a discussion about how extra spaces and characters
> slow down an exchange. Those a nothing compared to the many ops that I
> worked in the CQ WW DX RTTY Contest last weekend that took 15-20 seconds or
> longer to reply. I'm not in the big leagues and worry about milliseconds,
> but when it takes almost a minute to complete a contact, that gets to me.
>
> Stan, K4SBZ
>
> "Real radio bounces off the sky."
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