[RTTY] Q Rate Killers

Michael Clarson wv2zow at gmail.com
Tue Sep 27 16:56:58 EDT 2016


Unlike SSB, on RTTY we don't have guys shouting "QRP QRP" so we'll make
everyone stand by so we can work the weak one. This discussion brings to
mind an old friend, K2OJL/V31BB and this classic audio clip of Jim and a
QRP station.  http://users.iswest.com/ballen/v31qrp.wav

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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