[RTTY] Upside-down RTTY contest QSO's

[Phil Cooper]

Hi Jim,

Thanks for your comments. To a degree, I understand your point of view, but
this behaviour isn't solely limited to contesting.

I regularly use other digital modes, such as JT65 and JT9. Quite often, I
will get a caller mid exchange, which rather ruins the whole contact.
Often, when calling someone with PSK, someone will decide to call me, even
though I am responding to a CQ call from someone else.

Part of the problem lies with the fact that it is now so simple to hook up a
computer to a radio and start transmitting.
I have regularly seen multiple instances of the same call in a PSK
waterfall, or seriously  overdriven signals in JT65/JT9.

Like many others here, I agree that if you send your call or the report a
few more times than others, it doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of
things.
But, when you see GU0SUP GU0SUP DE AH:KJSAHFS:H and you ask for his call,
you get GU0SUP GU0SUP DEKLAJKHSGH again. So much better to just send your
own call two or three times. It is less likely to get drowned in QSB, or
messed up by someone else calling.

You wouldn't try sending a report directly to someone in CW or SSB, so why
might it be acceptable in RTTY? The simple answer - it isn't the way things
are done. And if you send me GU0SUP 599 124 124 124 de ZL2BMH in response to
my CQ call, then it makes me wonder how much attention you are paying to the
contest.

Just my personal thoughts...........

73 de Phil GU0SUP



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