[GreenKeys] CRLF or not CRLF?

[Jeff Stai]

Paper tape macros would seem to be in the spirit of the event. Things like
fldigi macros would seem not.

So here's how it's going to work...

You'll operate using your equipment under whatever rules we come up with.
You can log using a computer and you'll submit your anachronistic ;)
Cabrillo log.

You'll also submit via email to the ARRL photos showing printed contest
QSOs and anything else to establish your hardware setup. We'll also want
cool photos for the results article so feel free to send many photos, but
the proof of printed QSOs is the key thing. (Maybe we ask for a photo of
your tape loop(s) but since you can do this without any macros that would
have to be optional.)

The ARRL will dump all of this on me and I will figure out which proper
entry has the highest score.

I can guarantee that the ARRL won't change the scoring to give extra points
for machine to machine, but I can see if they can help me determine who had
the most of them as an honorable mention thing. Remind me ;)

I'd like to see max participation, so it seems to me that focussing on the
way characters get input - vintage keyboards and paper tape loops - and get
output on the printer would be in the spirit.

A PC or other CPU involved in the data stream would not seem to be in the
spirit, but we can get really bogged down in definitions here. I would hate
to exclude a whole group because they need a code converter and/or CRLF
help, and it's more sensible to create such a thing with a CPU than with
74xxx logic.

73 jeff wk6i


On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 12:28 PM, Jeffrey Angus <jdangus at att.net> wrote:

> On 7/29/17 1:40 PM, Jeff Stai wrote:
>
>> Nothing is disqualified yet because the rule has not yet been officially
>> written.
>> You guys can help with that. ;) I think focussing on the UI (printer and
>> keyboard)
>> would be the right direction.
>>
> Just my opinion, but if you're going to have a special "machine" only
> category,
> then it should mean exactly that.
>
> Radio <-> Terminal Unit <-> Mechanical TTY machine.
> And by terminal unit, I mean a modem, no data processing.
> Sorry folks, this means no using a Kantronics KAM with a model 33 ASR.
>
> I haven't read the ARRL RTTY Roundup rules lately, so I can't say with
> certainty
> that it is limited to 60 WPM Baudot, so folks with a model 33 might be
> able to
> participate with ASCII at 110 baud.
> <http://www.arrl.org/files/file/Contest%20Rules%20PDFs/2017/
> 2017%20RTTY%20Roundup.pdf>
> I just read the rules:
> (Baudot RTTY, ASCII, AMTOR, PSK31 and Packet—attended operation only)
>
> I you insist on having "macros" (as they are now referred to) I would also
> assume
> these are limited to paper tape, not something like Fldigi running in
> parallel on
> the loop.
>
> Oh, and of course, extra point for working machine to machine. ;-)
>
> Jeff
>
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