[RTTY] RTTY Best Practices

[Peter Laws]

On 1/13/06, Kok Chen <chen at mac.com> wrote:

> I agree completely.  Especially when people can barely copy my low
> power signal to start with.
>
> Unless the mode has built in error detection properties (which Baudot
> does not), doubling exchanges (just the part that is crucial)
> provides the error detection.  Tripling the exchange will provide
> error correction for a sufficiently low bit error rate.  They are not
> optimal coding, but they are better than nothing.

Thank you for validating my use of odd numbers of critical elements,
i.e. "IL IL IL".



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