[RTTY] Q Rate Killers

[Jeff Stai]

Speaking of rate killers... I'm noticing a disturbing trend from some hams.
I'm seeing this more and more in response to my CQ:

W7RN 599 03 03 CA CA 599 03 03 CA CA DE W6h?;WF;OASDJ/HFOWE8UHFOSVN

These folks really need some mentoring on getting the callsign right first.
I had someone send me this string 4 times, and get his single callsign at
the end clobbered every time. My QRZ? and UR CALL PSE went unheeded and
eventually he went away. No contact logged. :(

And quite often when I do manage to get all of the info, my response goes
unacknowledged, leaving me in an ambiguous state, wondering whether to log
it.

And a side effect of this is when they do acknowledge you it ends up
looking an awful lot like MY final TU, so the next caller thinks it is the
previous caller's frequency not mine, and I have to then do the call
correction dance.

I really appreciate that these folks are getting on and handing out some
contacts, but if you see anyone you know doing this please help them.

Thanks and 73 - jeff wk6i


On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 4:41 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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