[RTTY] RTTY Best Practices

[Douglas Hall]

> ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
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> At 10:24 AM 1/15/2006, Peter Laws wrote:
>
>> 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?
>
> Bill, W6WRT
>

 From my perspective, it's not so much odd numbers as (in this case) 3 
of them. Sending "IL" 3 times provides a way to do a 2/3 majority vote. 
If it comes out on my side as "IL IN IL" I can say with some certainty 
that it's "IL" whereas if it's only sent twice it could be either, and 
if only once it could be anything.

73,
Doug, K4DSP