I have given this some thought. On RTTY, if you can avoid [SHIFT] or [UNSHIFT],
It is probably worth a few Qs over the life of a contest. 5NN on RTTY is a bad
idea... you're actually transmitting
[upshift]5{downshift]NN[upshift]01[downshift]. 59901 saves two characters. Over
the course of a minute you might save 4-6 characters, which would be 10 percent
faster. If you're running the whole 48 hours, that's almost 5 hours of Qs. Of
course, nobody runs constant rate for 48 hours, but it makes the most of the
best rate hours.
Think of it this way. If you make 1500 Qs in 48 hours, that is 3000 extra
characters sent... and those are only extra characters that are sent making
actual Qs. That is 67 minutes of characters.
-----Original Message-----
From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of
kzerohb@gmail.com
Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2016 1:12 PM
To: CQ-Contest <CQ-Contest@contesting.com>
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Time saver
Saw a few instances of cut numbers on CQ WW RTTY today.
Never thought of that time saving technique.
73, de Hans, KØHB
"Just a boy and his radio"™
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