Monday, May 3, 2010

RTTY CONTESTING

If you are going to RTTY CONTEST... please consider the following:

  • Never give your "exchange" data before the CQing station acknowledges you and give your their report.
  • Keep ALL macros short! Some contesters are in it to win it! Be respectful of that. That means send ONLY what is required for the contest exchange!
  • There is NO reason to give "Their call" AND YOUR call EVERY time you send a macro...
  • "PLEASE COPY" is NEVER acceptable in a contest...ESPECIALLY in RTTY! What are these people thinking?
  • Never end a QSO with QSL THANKS FOR THE CONTEST AND GOOD LUCK! Hell!...that is 3 QSOS worth of taking up time right there. Just don't do it!
  • If you don't know the call of the guy you are calling....guess what? DON'T CALL!!!!
  • HAVE FUN!!

1 comment:

  1. Hi, stumbled across your blog and like what i've read so far. I'm pretty new to RTTY contesting and have been looking for examples of RTTY contest macro's.

    Wondering if you can help out ?

    Thanks

    Jeff
    M1BCM
    jeff.worthing@gmail.com

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