[RTTY] Thoughts on missing out the dash between serial No's

[George Johnson]

Phil and All,
Yes, I have adopted a similar approach.  I did not operate enough in
this past contest to confirm results but I had only one request for a
repeat.  On a repeat, I use 000-000 000 000 BK to mix up the
regeneration of the figures transmission.  BTW, in case anyone is
interested, I could do without people sending 5NN in this mode also...
:-))

73, George .. W1ZT

----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Cooper" <pcooper@guernsey.net>
To: "RTTY" <rtty@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 1:47 PM
Subject: [RTTY] Thoughts on missing out the dash between serial No's


> Hi all,
>
> As someone suggested on this reflector, I decided to remove the dashes
in
> between the serial numbers sent for the BARTG Sprint, and I have to
say, I
> had far fewer repeat requests!
> I've always included the dash, under the illusion that it helped, but
this
> was a good chance to leave it out, and see what happened.
>
> I did have to repeat a few times, but in the main, this was due to QRM
at
> the time, rather than garbled reception.
>
> I did see that quite a few ops didn't heed the rules where it says the
> exchange is SERIAL NUMBER ONLY, and some even went as far as sending
> 599-599-599-001, which I received from one station!
>
> There was also one station who was calling CQ BARTG SPRING CONTEST,
and his
> exchange included the time as well! I guess he needs a new calendar??
>
> So, did anyone else 'ditch the dash', and did it help??
>
> 73 for now, and hope to see some of you in the XE test next weekend
with
> Writelog on the go!
> Phil GU0SUP
>
>
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