[RTTY] Don't send IN during the exchange!

[WA9ALS - John]

I have to send 599 IN IN
- Then people ask me State? State? thinking I never told them "in where?"
Callsign recognition helps a little with this.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Reisert AD1C" <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>
To: <rtty at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 5:15 PM
Subject: [RTTY] Don't send IN during the exchange!


> Two guys I worked (out of 220 or so) sent their report like this:
>
>   AD1C UR 599 IN IL IL <end>
>
> Why send the word IN?  In one case (above) it was a W9 station, and I
wasn't
> sure whether he was in INdiana or ILlinois - IL bean IN 2-to-1.  The other
one
> was more obvious.
>
> This is not the toastmasters! Just get the information across as succintly
as
> possible.
>
> 73 - Jim AD1C
>
>
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