[CQ-Contest] Cut number advice

[John Geiger]

3AA could also be 311, meaning they had no prec.

73s John AA5JG

--- Dave Hachadorian <K6LL at ARRL.net> wrote:

> In SS CW, somebody sent me 3AA, and I was supposed
> to figure
> out that it meant 31A! This is in a contest where
> logging
> accuracy is critical. Other than 5NN, cut numbers
> are nuts.
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> Another bad idea is a bunch of leading zeros before
> a serial 
> number. When signals are weak it's difficult to tell
> if they 
> are really zeros or some significant digit.
> 
> Dave Hachadorian, K6LL
> Yuma, AZ
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