[CQ-Contest] ARRL "endorses" cut numbers

[Steve Harrison]

At 11:22 PM 6/4/2007 +0000, kr2q at optonline.net wrote:
>Sorry...couldn't resist.
>
>See the section titled "Work the Experts" - this is an intro 
>for newbies who "can copy and send Morse code at 5 to 10 WPM."
>http://www.arrl.org/news/features/2003/10/21/1/

Oh, brother..... I really didn't need to read that  ;o(((((((

It's been several decades since I did a SS and maybe things have sorta
"evolved" in the meantime......  So I haven't the vaguest idea whether, for
example, during the 2006 SS, A was often used by the faster ops for 1.

>Even QRPers get it.
>See "The 'Secret' Language of the Exchange"
>http://www.arrl.org/news/features/2002/10/21/1/

I can see that, considering the QRPers are a pretty tight-knit and close
group. When I was doing high-speed meteor scatter, we also had a few
shortcuts we'd sometimes take that could completely bamboozle a newbie.

Steve, K0XP