AW: [RTTY] Cut numbers in RTTY -- why?

[Dr. Wolf-E. Gruening]

Hi Mike,

I go with you.

And thanks for the tip with the two space between the elements of the
exchange. That is the point I was looking for intuitively.

But I do not agree with your third point. I can't see any reason why I
should send the serial numbers as letters. I have a special macro which
sends only the serial number 5 times as figures and no - I repeat - NO other
element. And that macro helped every time when I was asked to repeat the
number. I had to send it only once in every case.

73 + 55
Wolf, DL6JZ

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Von: rtty-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:rtty-bounces at contesting.com]Im
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Gesendet: Montag, 16. Februar 2004 18:53
An: jpixton at shentel.net; rtty at contesting.com
Betreff: Re: [RTTY] Cut numbers in RTTY -- why?


Jerry,

You describe things correctly!   It is difficult to understand why some
people are so reticent to send something repeately when they are asked to do
so.
Perhaps it's some kind of modesty or a fear of wanting to seem overzealous.
Also, stations are so often reticent to GO BACK and MAKE SURE they have
copied things correctly.  Neither operator should forget that errors will be
penalized.  On several occasions, stations about which I had real questions
as to
call or report never made it into my log.  In this way I had a cleaner log
without errors.  The other guy lost out because he won't show up in my log
and will
be penalized for it.  Blazing ahead to protect "rate" at the expense of
accuracy is a dumb way to conduct onesself in a contest.

Through trial and error I have hit a few methods that really do help "get
the
number through." One of them seems crazy, but isn't:

1.  Do NOT use dashes at all in the exchange.   599-023-023 is just asking
for trouble because it does not allow the "system" to UNSHIFT.

2.  Instead of using dashes...use  TWO  spaces between the report elements,
like:
         599    023    023
    I could go into a long explanation about unshifting on space, etc., but
believe me, this helps much of the time.

3.  For really rough cases I actually have a macro that purposely sends the
serial number both SHIFTED and UNSHIFTED.  When it gets tough, I would send:

        W6IHG   599   023   023   023   PQW     PQW    PQW

    That way the other op can (with most software), click on the PQW if he
recognizes it, and it will be converted to  023

I was very pleasantly surprised by the few stations I heard overdriving the
first audio stages of their rigs with their sound cards.  That fad seems to
be
pretty well under control.

73

Mike
W0YR
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