[GreenKeys] another RTTY newbie Question

[Russ Miller]

Don,

I hope to see you on the banks either Tuesday or over next weekend.

73

Russ WA3FRP 

Sent from my iPhone

> On Dec 29, 2018, at 4:50 PM, Don Cunningham <donc at martineer.net> wrote:
> 
> Russ,
> I'm probably too old fashioned in this "contest era" of RTTY, but I always send CQ several times, my call at least 3 times and send a line or two of CQ's.  This in deference to my Teletype friends.  If I remember to do it, I set the margins to machine width so my "glass RTTY" doesn't mess up machines.  Just old guy here though.
> 73,
> Don, WB5HAK
> 
>> On 12/29/2018 3:42 PM, Russ Miller       wrote:
>> It means that KD5ILA was calling a station 
>> 
>> Unless you missed the first part of his transmission.  
>> 
>> If he were calling CQ, you should see CQ WD5ILA WD5ILA WD5ILA 
>> 
>> I prefer to call CQ by beginning and ending my transmission with CQ like this:
>> 
>> CQ CQ WA3FRP WA3FRP CQ
>> 
>> so that a station tuning in late and misses my initial CQ will catch it at the end of my transmission.
>> 
>> Sending PSE K is not necessary as this is RTTY and not CW.  RTTY uses constant carrier. It is obvious when the transmission ends.
>> 
>> 73
>> Russ WA3FRP 
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>> On Dec 29, 2018, at 3:55 PM, Nick England <navy.radio at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> I heard someone transmitting just:
>>> KD5ILA KD5ILA KD5ILA PSE K
>>> 
>>> Does that mean KD5ILA is calling CQ or that some unidentified station is calling  KD5ILA ?
>>> 
>>> these quickie computer exchanges baffle me - by the time I get the receiver tuned, all I get is garble-garble-K
>>> 
>>> Yeah, I know it is all so much easier with SDRs and computers, but if I wanted easy, I'd just use email instead of resurrecting a M28.
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Nick England K4NYW
>>> www.navy-radio.com
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