Thanks to Dave and John N1JM for the explanations. I had pretty much
figured that the 'P' at both ends was probably a zero. Why in the world
would you want to send such gibberish instead of just sending a plain old
legible number? There can't be that much of a speed advantage like there is
in CW. I also got several TOO numbers and figured they were 599's, but
without the decode key I had no idea why they were sending it that way. At
least I learned something new!
73,
Gary AL9A
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Hachadorian" <k6ll@arrl.net>
To: "Gary AL9A" <al9a@mtaonline.net>
Sent: February 14, 2010 8:44 PM
Subject: Re: [WriteLog] WPX number problem
> PRP=040
>
> On the keyboard, the (shifted) number is just northwest of the (unshifted)
> letter.
>
> QWERTYUIOP
> 1234567890
>
> Dave Hachadorian, K6LL
> Yuma, AZ
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Gary AL9A" <al9a@mtaonline.net>
> Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2010 10:30 PM
> To: "Writelog Reflector" <writelog@contesting.com>
> Subject: [WriteLog] WPX number problem
>
>> During the CQ WPX RTTY contest I worked JG1IEF. For the number in the
>> report he sent PRP. I asked for a repeat of NR? and he again sent PRP.
>> Either he had something wrong on his end, like the numbers shift didn't
>> work, or he was sending some weird cut number. Anyone know how to
>> decipher
>> what PRP translates too in English?
>>
>> 73,
>> Gary AL9A
>>
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