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Re: [RTTY] To dash or not to dash - the bottom line

To: "RTTY reflector" <rtty@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [RTTY] To dash or not to dash - the bottom line
From: "Bill, W6WRT" <dezrat1242@yahoo.com>
Reply-to: dezrat1242@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:28:03 -0800
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ORIGINAL MESSAGE:

On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:13:38 -0700, "Dave Hachadorian" <k6ll@arrl.net>
wrote:

>In the time 
>it takes to resend the exchange, you could have resent just the 
>number 20 times! (30 times if you use dashes)

REPLY:

Which would you rather receive:

123 123 123 123 123 123 (etc, 20 times)
or
QWE-QWE-QWE-QWE-QWE (etc, 30 times)

I've been doing this long enough to mentally translate QWE, but a lot
of newcomers haven't and will ask for a repeat of the second example.
Isn't it better to just let USOS do its magic? No dashes, please!

73, Bill W6WRT
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