[RTTY] hyphen or no hyphen

[Bill Turner]

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On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 01:14:27 -0600, "Robert Chudek" <k0rc at pclink.com>
 wrote:

>When you monitor the receive signal your eyes & ears will synchronize with the characters printing to the screen. Soon you will begin to correlate misprints caused by static bursts, key clicks, impulse noise, qsb, selective fading, and other interference competing for the decoders attention.

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Bob is absolutely correct on this, although I have never seen it
discussed before. An experienced RTTY operator can tell just by
listening to the received signal whether it has decoded correctly or
not in nearly all cases. This has little to do with signal strength,
only with signal quality. I doubt if this is something that can be
taught, but it can be learned with experience and paying close
attention. It is especially useful in a contest to help make a
decision whether the print is correct or whether you need to ask for a
repeat.

73, Bill W6WRT