[GreenKeys] 2018 ARRL RTTY RU

[Ron Kolarik]

A unique identifier is okay as long as the 'glass' guys know what it is. 
Some may not work you with a strange
appended id, just a thought.

The other problem with the off frequency, one or both of you had 
something offset, his RIT or your XIT. Either
way you get a forehead slap when you figure it out :-).

Ron K0IDT

On 1/8/2018 1:07 PM, Kevin H. Phillips 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
>