[RTTY] RTTY Best Practices

[Peter Laws]

On 1/15/06, Bill Turner <dezrat1242 at ispwest.com> wrote:
>  ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
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>  At 10:24 AM 1/15/2006, Peter Laws wrote:
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> Thank you for validating my use of odd numbers of critical elements,
>  i.e. "IL IL IL".
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>  That statement caught my attention. What is desirable about odd numbers?

If you copy "IL IN", you can't be certain where I am.  If, OTOH, you
copy "IL IN IL", you can be *reasonably*, but not 100%, certain that
I'm in Illinois.


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