In a message dated 11/5/2007 9:54:18 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
gerry.hull@gmail.com writes:
I used NN VT instead of 99 VT. I got asked for a lot of fills.
I found this strange... N for 9 is VERY common. If I sent NN as
the fill, they get it immediately.
Unlike the NN in 5NN, the SS check actually has to be logged. So the time
you think you save by sending the short "NN" is lost as the guy on the other
end has to make the translation from "NN" to "99", find the "99" keys, and
then type "VT", all before acknowledging your exchange.
The guy on the other end also might have been tricked into thinking you had
forgot to send your check, and were going straight to sending your section,
which might have been NNJ or NNY.
Cut numbers made sense in the days of straight keys, where a long dash saved
a lot of carpel tunnel wear and tear vs. five separate dashes. In these
days of machine generated CW, they make sense only where the numbers are
meaningless, like leading zeros, 5NN or a zone number already known from the
callsign.
73 - Jim K8MR
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