[UK-CONTEST] RTTY macros

[Paul Beecham]

Hi, just finished  Marconi day  as GB6MD, a funny thing happened when useing 
rtty. (We programmed the macro's to be as brief as possible but stated 
Marconi day). A  polish station answered our cq , we replied  sending 599 
etc, he replied asking for a number, we said "not in contest," he kept 
asking for "a number", we replied and gave him one, he came back and said 
number no good "READ THE RULES"--
 73 Paul  G6PZ.--- Original Message ----- 
From: "peter jackson" <peter.jackson17 at ntlworld.com>
To: "contest" <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 11:25 PM
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] RTTY macros


> Hi, I whole heartily agree with Phil and Berni regarding rtty messages. I 
> am
> a fairly newcomer to the mode and I feel sure I too had some long winded
> macros in the beginning. I learnt all about rtty from Don's AA5AU site. 
> This
> guy has won all there is to be won on rtty, and his site is second to 
> none.
> His tutorial on Writelog explains the ideal macro messages, ok the control
> codes maybe different to the program some are using but the basics are
> there. He explains the need for carriage return and line feed at the start
> of some messages.
> I really like this mode it makes a pleasant change from yelling into a 
> mike
> or decoding cw with my ageing old grey cells. All I have to do is relax in
> the chair and click the mouse.
> 73 Pete G3KNU
>
>
>
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