On Nov 6, 2007, at 9:47 AM, Hank Greeb wrote:
> One other thing which irks me is folks who insist in sending "T" as
> the
> first character when they were sending a 1 or 2 digit exchange number.
> IF they want to send a zero, which is definitely NOT needed, they're
> not
> interested in maximizing rate, so why not send a zero?
Hank wrote this a while back, but I'll put in an observation from the
recent WPX CW, as well as some other contests.
If I sent a single-digit number, or a two-digit number, specially
later in the contest, I nearly always got a repeat request. People
appear to be expecting a three-digit number. Sending TT or T before
the number appears to reduce the number of repeats.
Once I got to 100 Qs, the repeat problem went away.
Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL Mail: aa4lr@arrl.net
Quote: "Not within a thousand years will man ever fly!"
-- Wilbur Wright, 1901
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