I really hate Line Feeds (the ENTER). Especially when you're running
several decode windows, they must be pretty small, and a few Line
Feeds will scroll too much stuff out of the window! What I like much
better is a leading space and a trailing space for every F-Key
message. Those spaces are enough to separate your call and exchange
from whatever other stuff is on the screen, because N1MM and WriteLog
will highlight calls. And if that space is there, you can click on
the call (and parts of the exchange), which will copy them to the
data entry window!
While I dislike those who use multiple Line Feeds, I absolutely despise
those who do not start their transmission with *one* Line Feed. Without
the linefeed, the cursor is not returned to be start of the line and
the call gets buried in the garble (decoded noise) somewhere toward the
end of the line. The call decoding/highlighting routines in N1MM and
WriteLog are good but they do have their peculiarities ... and will
either highlight more than the call or will only highlight calls in the
"known calls" file - which means they will miss new contesters, those
just working a few stations/new DX, or those who do not submit logs on
a regular basis.
By starting each transmission with {ENTER} the call is almost always
in the first dozen or so spaces on the bottom line of the decode window
and each to "click" if one is using a mouse or right in the center if
view if one is working from the keyboard.
73,
... Joe, W4TV
On 2014-10-01 11:36 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
On Wed,10/1/2014 7:47 PM, Fred Jensen wrote:
Start every transmission with {TX}{ENTER}TEXT and follow the text by
one space and {RX}.
What Fred means is that TEXT is what you want to send with that F-key. :)
The {ENTER} starts you on his next line, clear of any garbage he's
printed before you answered or called. The space at the end of your
transmission clears you of the noise he's going to print as soon as
your MARK goes away.
I really hate Line Feeds (the ENTER). Especially when you're running
several decode windows, they must be pretty small, and a few Line Feeds
will scroll too much stuff out of the window! What I like much better is
a leading space and a trailing space for every F-Key message. Those
spaces are enough to separate your call and exchange from whatever other
stuff is on the screen, because N1MM and WriteLog will highlight calls.
And if that space is there, you can click on the call (and parts of the
exchange), which will copy them to the data entry window!
I agree with all of Fred's other advice, except that when I'm running, I
send the other guy's call again at the end of the exchange if I think
there is QRM, or if I doubled with him because he sent his call again
after I had begun responding. Also, in S&P, I send nothing but the
exchange UNLESS I think he mis-copied my call, in which case I'll send
it again, twice, then send the exchange.
One of the rules of contesting (and DXing) is NEVER send something the
other guy has already gotten right. That can be tricky to know with
RTTY, because decoders often make mistakes on calls. In contesting, if
he gets your call wrong, HE loses points but you do not. And it's good
sportsmanship to try to correct him.
73, Jim K9YC
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