[RTTY] funny exchanges

[Bill Turner]

On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 02:17:21 +0000, WI8W wrote:

>I had several funny serial number exchanges during last weekends RTTY 
>contest.
>
>What is the reason for sending a serial number such as WIUWIU?  I had to 
>ask several stations what their number was and they sent is as the 
>correct thing.
>
>Is it a bug in Writelog?
>
>I dont understand it at all.

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You are seeing the famous "wrong shift" which Baudot RTTY is susceptible
to.  WIUWIU is the same as 287287.  If you're using MMTTY, go to the
help file and find RTTY Basics by W7TI (my old call).  It will explain
what is happening.

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73, Bill W6WRT
QSLs via LoTW