[RTTY] WPX

[Steve Carpenter]

Ah, yes...sending me back my number. First time I've ever seen [QSL: 
239] or whatever. Glad I'm not the only one who thought that was 
weird...and a waste of time and characters.

Nevertheless, I had a a lot of fun in this contest...no shortage of 
calls to work...but I didn't get to spend as much time on it as I would 
have liked. Wife was down with the flu and granddaughter's birthday was 
Saturday. Thanks to everyone for the calls. Good to work a lot of y'all.

Steve K4DXV

On 2/12/2018 3:35 PM, Jeff Stai wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 12:10 PM, David G3YYD via RTTY <rtty at contesting.com>
> wrote:
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>> I think I got more 5NN this time than ever before with an unnecessary shift
>> character - this is RTTY not CW.
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> I'd concur. I also saw two or three using cut numbers. Like "O56" and
> "TT9". Fun to click on :)
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> There seemed to be some sort of new software that's been released in the
> wild. Either that or uninstructed new users of the existing stuff. Very
> poorly configured or damaged macros in messages. Pity the poor operator who
> kept sending messages that included "YOUR CALL" in them amongst other macro
> text. It was clear he didn't actually need my call after I sent it several
> times...
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> And I'd really like to know who is telling people to send back my serial
> number. Me dutifully clicking or typing the numbers on the screen... oh
> wait, that looks familiar! Happened quite a few times.
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> Let us all help our new RTTY friends with these issues when we have the
> opportunity. 73 jeff wk6i
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