[GreenKeys] 2018 ARRL RTTY RU

[Steve Garrison]

Kevin,

I had the same thought about using "/HM" after my call to indicate my use of Heavy Metal, once I get it all working.  The FCC rules concerning the "strokeXXX" characters are not very strict as I recall.  Maybe Dave or Jeff can way in.

Steve G./N4TTY
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> On Jan 8, 2018, at 2:07 PM, Kevin H. Phillips <kh-phillips at 9-5usa.org> wrote:
> 
> It seems a shame the users of real machines can't be somehow set themselves apart in the contests.  I wonder if the FCC would go for MYCALL/GK or MYCALL/HM or MYCALL/28ASR?
> 
> I don't have my real machines in a convenient place to operate with my radio.  Like Wayne, I did not have time to work the contest much; just a few hours Saturday evening and Sunday an hour or so before the contest ended.  Propagation rarely does me any favors.  I usually don't even hear as many stations as some people report working.  I logged 95 contacts but I guess that was good considering how little I operated.   Even though I wasn't running heavy metal, my set-up is still kind of "vintage":  HAL DS3100ASR with ST-8000 modem keying FSK on my Yaesu FT-2000D.
> 
> I had one odd experience.  It happens to me at least once every contest I work.  I was trying to answer a W1, I think.  He'd ask AGN? AGN? and I'd repeat my callsign several times.  Finally, he turned off his macros and typed that I wasn't decoding at all because I was off frequency and went back to calling CQ.  As a back-up tuning method I run MMTTY on my computer and I had his signal right on the traces.  Anybody got any ideas on that?
> 
> 73
> 
> Kevin
> W5TTY
> 
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