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After hearing all of the RTTY stations on Saturday I thought it would be
nice to try out RTTY and with Dave's help I got RTTY going.



I read the rules and they looked pretty simple so I thought I'd join the
fun. Except for one thing; the exchanges were cryptic to me.



So, I spent several hours today on the Internet trying to decode RTTY
operating protocol. Not an easy job but I finally found it and armed with a
few macros I was ready to begin.



Three hours later the contest ended and I had a couple of dozen contacts
from all over the world. Certainly not a contest winner but I did have fun
and learned something as well.



The rules say that logs from both sides of a contact have to be submitted or
the contact doesn't count. I thought it was only fair to the guys that I
contacted that I submit my end of the log. After lots of trial and error I
made a satisfactory Cabrillo dump and submitted it only to have it bounced
because ".the received exchanges do not indicate the station's zone."



Hmmm. I can fix this. But, when I looked at the original log entries they
already had the zone tucked away in the AWARDS section which is
automagically populated from the callbook. There is no other obvious place
for a zone so I am at a loss as how to fix the problem.



HELP.



-Dick-

599 03 NV N3XRU K

ORIGINAL MESSAGE:

On Sun, 27 Sep 2009 22:40:13 -0700, "Dick Merryman" <dicko@...> wrote:

There is no other obvious place
for a zone so I am at a loss as how to fix the problem.

REPLY:

If you have the Cabrillo header correct (a BIG if), then the individual lines
for each contact should look like this:

QSO: 7035 RY 2009-09-26 0003 W6WRT 599 03 CA N3BUO 599 04 TX
QSO: 7035 RY 2009-09-26 0004 W6WRT 599 03 CA EF8M 599 33 DX
QSO: 7028 RY 2009-09-26 0005 W6WRT 599 03 CA VA3DX 599 04 ON
QSO: 7030 RY 2009-09-26 0005 W6WRT 599 03 CA W1UE 599 05 MA
The zone of the station you worked is the next to last entry on each line. You
may have to manually enter the zone for each line.

Hope this helps.

73, Bill W6WRT

Dick Merryman wrote:

After hearing all of the RTTY stations on Saturday I thought it would be
nice to try out RTTY and with Dave's help I got RTTY going.
I read the rules and they looked pretty simple so I thought I'd join the
fun. Except for one thing; the exchanges were cryptic to me.
So, I spent several hours today on the Internet trying to decode RTTY
operating protocol. Not an easy job but I finally found it and armed with a
few macros I was ready to begin.
Three hours later the contest ended and I had a couple of dozen contacts
from all over the world. Certainly not a contest winner but I did have fun
and learned something as well.
The rules say that logs from both sides of a contact have to be submitted or
the contact doesn't count. I thought it was only fair to the guys that I
contacted that I submit my end of the log.

Hi Dick,

Generally, that is not true - QSOs will still be credited even if you
don't turn in a log. Some contests require that a callsign appear in
more than one log to be considered valid, so if you work a station
because it's cool DX, you should at least work a few others in the
contest, so you're not flagged as unique and therefore possibly a busted
call, but I don't know of any major DX contest that requires both
stations to submit logs for QSOs to be valid.

DXKeeper does have a contest logging mode, but I've never used it. You
need to set it up in the Config/Contest tab. I don't know if you'll be
able to reconcile your log if you configure contest mode after the
event, but you could try it.

I use N1MM Logger for RTTY contesting, and import the ADIF log that that
produces into DXKeeper afterwards, for DXCC/QSL purposes.

Hope to work you in some RTTY contests in the future. We were WQ6O this
weekend - multi-operator, single transmitter entry.

~Iain / N6ML

AA6YQ comments below

-----Original Message-----
From: dxlab@... [mailto:dxlab@...]On Behalf Of Dick
Merryman
Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 1:40 AM
To: dxlab@...
Subject: [dxlab] CQ WW RTTY Contest - Now What?

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The rules say that logs from both sides of a contact have to be submitted or
the contact doesn't count. I thought it was only fair to the guys that I
contacted that I submit my end of the log. After lots of trial and error I
made a satisfactory Cabrillo dump and submitted it only to have it bounced
because ".the received exchanges do not indicate the station's zone."

Hmmm. I can fix this. But, when I looked at the original log entries they
already had the zone tucked away in the AWARDS section which is
automagically populated from the callbook. There is no other obvious place
for a zone so I am at a loss as how to fix the problem.

In order to generate correct Cabrillo, you must record the information as

specified in the big table in

<>

For CQ-WW-RTTY, notes 9 and 10 say

in CQ WW RTTY, the TX Exchange should be set to the two-digit CQ zone
followed by a space character followed by one of the following:
- a 2-character state abbreviation (for American stations)
- a 2-character province abbreviation (for Canadian stations)
- DX (for all other stations)

In CQ WW RTTY, the recorded RX# item is assumed to contain a one-digit or
two-digit CQ zone and, optionally, a 2-character area indicator: a state
abbreviation, a province abbreviation or DX. If no area indicator is
present, DX is assumed. The zone and area indicator can be in any order,
with or without a space separator. In Contest mode, WinWarbler makes it
pretty easy to capture the RX# directly from decoded text

Before participating in contest for which you expect to generate

Cabrillo, it is best to set things up beforehand, log a few test QSOs, and
generate a Cabrillo file to verify that the necessary data has been properly
collected.

73,

Dave, AA6YQ