[CQ-Contest] Cut number advice

[Tom Hammond]

Hi Gerry:

At 08:09 11/05/2007, Gerry Hull wrote:
>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.
>
>... then there are the other guys who send 006 as the serial number!
>Every leading zero is a waste of bandwidth, cut or not.

Well..... maybe not... at least one leading zero is NOT always a waste...
It's certainly not a waste if you start in the middle of the contest, sending
"1" and you get repeatedly asked for the 'rest' of the serial number because
they just flat can't understand that you JUST started and you REALLY 
are sending
a single-digit serial at that point.... they expect a larger number 
by that time.

I DO wish that some of the loggers would allow only one leading zero though.
Many seem to force two leading zeros. And, after you get to '10' I turn it
off completely.

73,

Tom Hammond   N0SS