[CQ-Contest] WPX SN...has to be a better way!

[David Robbins K1TTT]

Use the technique we used to use in the navy for messages that had to be
received perfectly, spell out the numbers.  "one two three four"  gives you
plenty of time to copy each digit, and even if you miss a letter or two you
can often get it right.  believe it or not I actually had to do that with my
call in a rtty contest once, the other station just could not get it right
so I sent 'kilo one tango tango tango' a couple times and he finally got it.
When conditions are bad or high reliability is needed, don't cut, expand.


David Robbins K1TTT
e-mail: mailto:k1ttt at arrl.net
web: http://www.k1ttt.net
AR-Cluster node: 145.69MHz or telnet://dxc.k1ttt.net
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug Grant [mailto:dougk1dg at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 16:26
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] WPX SN...has to be a better way!
> 
> KR2Q wrote:
> 
> > Comments?
> 
> Anything too "new" will confuse the casual participants. Stick with
> the conventional "NR?", "NR AGN?", or "NR 112 OK?" to ask for a fill,
> and a hand-sent, more-space-between-the-numbers repeat without uncut
> numbers...maybe a bit slower also.
> 
> > And please don't tell me to just run more than 5 watts.  :-)
> 
> OK...put up bigger antennas, then. You're welcome.
> 
> 73,
> 
> Doug K1DG
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