[GreenKeys] another RTTY newbie Question

[Richard Knoppow]

    When I returned to ham radio some years ago, after a several 
year hiatus, I was astonished at the procedure I heard. I 
consider the contest mode unacceptable for anything else. Sending 
your call without any indication of the station being called. Oh, 
well.
     FWIW, for phone and CW (I don't know about RTTY), the 
standard procedure was to send CQ three times followed by DE and 
then your call three times, the combination not more than three 
times, followed by K (for CW) or "listening" or standing-by" for 
phone. The old commercial rules said not to send CQ or one's call 
more than three times. Commercial practice was somewhat different 
because coastal stations had pilot (wrong word but I am drawing a 
blank) frequencies. Those were the ones that sent continuously 
vvv de KPH, etc. To be answered on the station's working frequency.
     Of course, all contest reports are 5 and 9 even when the 
worked station has to say "again, again, again" and again.
    Oh, well, I guess I am just a perfectionist or maybe a 
curmudgeon (is that a kind of fish?).

On 12/29/2018 4:55 PM, Nick England wrote:
> Thanks. I should have thought of the situation where I couldn’t 
> hear the DX station. Just like yelling Lima Alfa, Lima Alfa in an 
> SSB pileup.
> Nick
> 
> 
> On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 5:14 PM Jim Haynes 
> <jhhaynes at earthlink.net <mailto:jhhaynes at earthlink.net>> wrote:
> 
>     On Sat, 29 Dec 2018, Nick England wrote:
> 
>      > I heard someone transmitting just:
>      > KD5ILA KD5ILA KD5ILA PSE K
>      >
>     That most likely means he is chasing a DX station.  Typical
>     operation is
>     that the DX station calls CQ or QRZ on his transmit frequency
>     but is
>     listening on a different frequency.  He may send something
>     like "up 2"
>     in his calls telling you that he is listening 2 KHz up from
>     where he
>     is transmitting.  In any event, all the stations that want to
>     contact
>     him will spread out around his frequency and just send their
>     call signs
>     and wait for him to hear them and respond.  Soon as they hear
>     him stop
>     transmitting they will all send their call signs and hope to
>     be picked
>     up by the DX station.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Nick England K4NYW
> www.navy-radio.com <http://www.navy-radio.com>
> 
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