I It is very popular in the states to skip the zeros in the exchange and it sure gets confusing. If someone sends me in WPX CW 5995 instead of 599005 how do I know if he means QSO nr or sends the zo
-- are of end did I and getting I agree Randy! When You are fightning S9+ CB QRM on 10 meters, the station you are working is a 229, and he shoots you ENN ANEA at 40 wpm, it's impossible to be sure h
Jim - I didn't mean to make this a Europe vs US thing. The point of a contest is to get the information across. I agree that it is much easier to copy if the other guy sends the exchange in the expec
de jh4nmt Randy Thompson wrote on "RE: [CQ-Contest] Re: Optimum Keyer Speed for WPX" : agree that it is expected format. K1EA's CT software only one or two I agree Randy's considaration about "the ex
format. software two SNIP Hi Randy, CT allows leading zeroes: it's enough starting the contest with the swicht -LZ (leading zeroes). IMHO not sending LZ is more time wasting: after 8 hours the contes
<< I hate these cut numbers. I never know if the guy sent 'T' for zero, or << did I miss a dot of 'N' for nine? I LIKE THE CUT NUMBERS. The argument above is no argument in my opinion. Otherwhise you
Well its just that it seemed to me that it was mostly US guys doing it but sure I could be wrong, there where quite a few JAs doing it too. Propagation was so super poor for US when I was on so I di
hasbeen started I have found stations sending numbers for their first qso's, wrote Why would you do that? What difference does it make whether you log in 4 or 004? Zoran VA3GW -- CQ-Contest on WWW:
In the context of copying serial numbers, I can think of two differences: One, numbers are fairly long characters in CW, having five elements ( dots and/or dashes ) each, which gives hunt-and-peck t
-- are of end did I and getting I agree Randy! When You are fightning S9+ CB QRM on 10 meters, the station you are working is a 229, and he shoots you ENN ANEA at 40 wpm, it's impossible to be sure h
Jim - I didn't mean to make this a Europe vs US thing. The point of a contest is to get the information across. I agree that it is much easier to copy if the other guy sends the exchange in the expec
de jh4nmt Randy Thompson wrote on "RE: [CQ-Contest] Re: Optimum Keyer Speed for WPX" : agree that it is expected format. K1EA's CT software only one or two I agree Randy's considaration about "the ex
format. software two SNIP Hi Randy, CT allows leading zeroes: it's enough starting the contest with the swicht -LZ (leading zeroes). IMHO not sending LZ is more time wasting: after 8 hours the contes
In the context of copying serial numbers, I can think of two differences: One, numbers are fairly long characters in CW, having five elements ( dots and/or dashes ) each, which gives hunt-and-peck t
-- are of end did I and getting I agree Randy! When You are fightning S9+ CB QRM on 10 meters, the station you are working is a 229, and he shoots you ENN ANEA at 40 wpm, it's impossible to be sure h
Jim - I didn't mean to make this a Europe vs US thing. The point of a contest is to get the information across. I agree that it is much easier to copy if the other guy sends the exchange in the expec
de jh4nmt Randy Thompson wrote on "RE: [CQ-Contest] Re: Optimum Keyer Speed for WPX" : agree that it is expected format. K1EA's CT software only one or two I agree Randy's considaration about "the ex
format. software two SNIP Hi Randy, CT allows leading zeroes: it's enough starting the contest with the swicht -LZ (leading zeroes). IMHO not sending LZ is more time wasting: after 8 hours the contes
In the context of copying serial numbers, I can think of two differences: One, numbers are fairly long characters in CW, having five elements ( dots and/or dashes ) each, which gives hunt-and-peck t