Hi Jim, Hence the suggestion to make it optional.
Perhaps there should be a penalty for not being courteous on the bands. I can live with that. I always had to laugh when I read the discussions on the RTTY lists after a contest. It's full of complaints about operators sending a character too many here and there. We're in a bad place if sending a 73, which is done in almost every other mode (including RTTY contests back when I participated), is too much to ask for. One can hardly argue that fully automatic operations (including logging) is a bad thing if sending a 73 is too much to ask for. 73, --Alex KR1ST On Oct 4, 2021, 2:43 AM, at 2:43 AM, Jim Brown via wsjt-devel <wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: >On 10/3/2021 7:50 PM, Alex via wsjt-devel wrote: >> No 73, no QSO. I really don't care if that means my log will be a few > >> Q's short. The world is already rude enough as it is. We can take a >few >> moments to be courteous. > >Not when there's short band opening for DX, and not in a contest. :) >When the other station sends RRR or RR73 and I immediately call CQ, he >should know that I copied it. If I didn't, I'd send R-10 again. And if >you re-send R-10, I know you didn't get my RRR or RR73, so I re-send >it. >This stuff is LOOONG established practice on the HF bands, especially >for contesting and DX pileups. Indeed, the most discourteous thing we >can do with working a contest (or in a DX opening) is to make the >contact take longer to complete -- it slows the other station down! > >Contest rules penalize you if a QSO in your log is not in the other >station's log, and it's often the loss of ANOTHER QSO. Failing to >understand these issues has driven RTTY contesters crazy when FT8 and >FT4 were added to RTTY Roundup, and when those same RTTY contesters >worked to set up a pure digital contest. > >73, Jim K9YC > > > > >_______________________________________________ >wsjt-devel mailing list >wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
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