Hi Scott
Thanks very much for your input....interesting..
NOEL
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Nichols" <snichols@mvosprey.com>
To: "RTTY" <RTTY@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 14:38
Subject: Re: [RTTY] hyphen or no hyphen
> Noel...
>
> It's all a matter of personal opinion, but here's my 2 cents worth...
>
> HYPHENS...I prefer spaces, as it makes it easier to click on the exchange
as
> it's by itself and no hyphen will end up in the exchange window...I think
> the reasoning for hyphens is it makes it faster to transmit, as no shift
is
> required to go from 9 to space, then space to 9...A hyphen is already
upper
> shift...However, a space will most times get you out of 599 PEU PEU PEU
> which happens when you are sending 599 037-037-037 but the first shift got
> garbled and the TX is stuck lower shift...Using spaces will force another
> chance to correct that problem, and you will get to at least see one
> instance of 037...
>
> START OF MACRO...I prefer CR or ENTER (one line advance) to start the
macro
> on a fresh line, not CRLF, which advances it 2 lines...Anything more than
1
> line is not needed
>
> END OF MACRO - A space or two is a MUST...Keeps the last character from
> getting garbled in with the mess that will follow due to normal noise.
Don't
> put CR or CRLF at the end of the macro...That causes too much movement of
> the call and exchange in the DI window...Hard to click on it when it's
> moving all the time...
>
> Those are my preferences and reasoning, I'm sure others have different
> suggestions...
>
> 73, Scott VE1OP
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "VE2RYY" <ve2ryy@globetrotter.net>
> To: <RTTY@contesting.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 3:13 PM
> Subject: [RTTY] hyphen or no hyphen
>
>
> >I was reading a lot about the macros settings.
> > Some say please send serial numbers with hyphen...like 032-032
> > Some say please no hypen.....like 032 032
> > What's the best....hyphen or no hypen????
> >
> > Some say put a CR at the beginning of a buffer......
> > Some say put a CRLF at the beginning of a buffer...
> > What's the best????.....CR alone or CR with LF or nothing at all at the
> > beginning????
> >
> > Some say put a space at the end of your macros
> > Some say put nothing at the end of your macros
> > What's the best...space or not space????
> >
> > I would appreciate any input about this...
> > Regards
> > NOEL
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