[CQ-Contest] decoding what is not there

[Charles Harpole]

How about all the guys with a K at the end of their call signs....  W4YOK
gets called "W4YO go ahead" all the time.
Just so you know, I am breaking my face with a grin at all the bad news re
Skimmer... like hearing Hitler has cancer.  73, Charly

On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 2:21 AM, Pete Smith N4ZR <n4zr at contesting.com>wrote:

> Tor is exactly right about adding the extra half-space.  That's how W3LPL
> got rid of LW3LPL busts.
>
> 73, Pete N4ZR
> Check out the Reverse Beacon Network at
> http://reversebeacon.net,
> blog at reversebeacon.blogspot.com.
> For spots, please go to your favorite
> ARC V6 or VE7CC DX cluster node.
>
>
> On 2/19/2013 10:31 AM, RT Clay wrote:
>
>>
>>  On a secondary note, what causes there to be a huge number of EK3LR
>>> spots from
>>> all over the world and not a single EK5GO?  I sure would hate to be in
>>> Armenia
>>> and have been assigned EK3LR.  Yikes.
>>>
>>> Stan, K5GO
>>>
>> Just for fun, try a search for "EK*" on reversebeacon and see what you
>> get...
>>
>> One way this might happen is if you send your call twice and your call
>> ends in a
>>
>> dit (like K3LR). The final dit of the call could be interpreted as a
>> separate E.
>> This is worse
>> if you use the "shortened inter-word spacing" setting for CW generation.
>> I would
>> suggest
>>
>> inserting an extra half-space between sending your call twice if it ends
>> in a
>> dit.
>>
>> But random impulse noise could also generate a dit sometimes- that is
>> harder to
>> control.
>>
>> Tor
>> N4OGW
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Charly, HS0ZCW