I agree too. Whenever I receive cut numbers, the brain has to
manually translate "let's see, didah = A, A = 1" rather than the
automatic didadadadah, finger hits the 1 key. This delays my
confirmation response, making up for any time saved by a
transmission a few msec. shorter.
But don't listen to me (or the others). As those who know me will
tell you, my CW abilities aren't what they used to be - I can only
copy about 80 WPM now...
73 Barry W2UP
On 29 May 01, at 9:27, Richard Thorne wrote:
>
> I agree. The only cut number that should be used is T for zero.
> Other than that send the number in its entirety. I don't think cut
> numbers save that much time.
>
> Richard Zalewski wrote:
>
> > As far as I am concerned you can do away with "cut" figures. Unless
> > you are always a real 599 the guy on the other end won't fall asleep
> > waiting for the number he will appreciate the standard format and
> > you will have less retries.
> >
> > Dick W7ZR
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Dez in Cyprus" <dez@cytanet.com.cy>
> > To: <writelog@contesting.com>
> > Sent: Monday, May 28, 2001 08:36
> > Subject: [WriteLog] Cut figures not possible in WL?
> >
> > >
> > > George and All,
> > >
> > > You're quite right, I too can get WL to send morse letter 'T' for
> > > leading zeros, but getting it to send T, N, or A for the figures
> > > 0, 9 and 1 is impossible if any of these numbers appear later in
> > > the serial number.
> > >
> > > The poor guy at the other end nearly fell asleep after I sent an
> > > exchange like 5NN 1009 in full.
> > >
> > > Cheers for the QSO in WPX George.
> > >
> > > 73
> > >
> > > Dez - ZC4DW
> > >
> > >
> > >
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