[RTTY] hyphen or no hyphen

[Scott Nichols]

Noel...

It's all a matter of personal opinion, but here's my 2 cents worth...

HYPHENS...I prefer spaces, as it makes it easier to click on the exchange as 
it's by itself and no hyphen will end up in the exchange window...I think 
the reasoning for hyphens is it makes it faster to transmit, as no shift is 
required to go from 9 to space, then space to 9...A hyphen is already upper 
shift...However, a space will most times get you out of 599 PEU PEU PEU 
which happens when you are sending 599 037-037-037 but the first shift got 
garbled and the TX is stuck lower shift...Using spaces will force another 
chance to correct that problem, and you will get to at least see one 
instance of 037...

START OF MACRO...I prefer CR or ENTER (one line advance) to start the macro 
on a fresh line, not CRLF, which advances it 2 lines...Anything more than 1 
line is not needed

END OF MACRO - A space or two is a MUST...Keeps the last character from 
getting garbled in with the mess that will follow due to normal noise. Don't 
put CR or CRLF at the end of the macro...That causes too much movement of 
the call and exchange in the DI window...Hard to click on it when it's 
moving all the time...

Those are my preferences and reasoning, I'm sure others have different 
suggestions...

73, Scott VE1OP

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "VE2RYY" <ve2ryy at globetrotter.net>
To: <RTTY at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 3:13 PM
Subject: [RTTY] hyphen or no hyphen


>I was reading a lot about the macros settings.
> Some say please send serial numbers with hyphen...like 032-032
> Some say please no hypen.....like 032 032
> What's the best....hyphen or no hypen????
>
> Some say put a CR at the beginning of a buffer......
> Some say put a CRLF at the beginning of a buffer...
> What's the best????.....CR alone or CR with LF or nothing at all at the 
> beginning????
>
> Some say put a space at the end of your macros
> Some say put nothing at the end of your macros
> What's the best...space or not space????
>
> I would appreciate any input about this...
> Regards
> NOEL
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