Yes, that was exactly my point. Thanks for setting me straight. How could I have been so stupid to miss that.
73, --Alex KR1ST On Oct 4, 2021, 9:33 AM, at 9:33 AM, Neil Zampella via wsjt-devel <wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: >It's currently optional ... > >When you send RR73, when the Tx Enable turns off, the operator has the >OPTION to click it back on, select the Tx5 message, and have it go out. > >See ... already implemented. Just takes TWO clicks. > >Neil, KN3ILZ > >On 10/4/2021 7:21 AM, Alex wrote: >> 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, at 2:43 AM, Jim Brown via wsjt-devel >> <wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> <mailto: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 ><https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel> >> > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >wsjt-devel mailing list >wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
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