[CQ-Contest] The Insanity of Cut Numbers in Serial NumberContests

Jim Brown k9yc at audiosystemsgroup.com
Tue Dec 16 13:06:35 EST 2014


On Tue,12/16/2014 7:48 AM, Yuri wrote:
> Not being a fan of cut numbers myself, I think that good ops know how 
> to copy any numbers.

Hi Yuri,

Letters are NOT numbers. Further, go back and read the posts noting that 
CW numbers are DESIGNED to be easy to copy under difficult conditions. 
We can miss hearing part of a character due to QSB or a static crash and 
still copy a NUMBER because of the spacing. The turkeys using cut 
numbers are often sending faster than they should given conditions -- 
Arctic flutter, weak signals, and so on.

73, Jim K9YC


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