[RTTY] Why QR for the section????

[Bill, W6WRT]

Technically, you are correct, but several of us have waged a long and
hard war to eliminate the use of hyphens and I really don't want to
see them raise their ugly heads again. :-) A great many contests mix
numbers with letters in the exchange and there, hyphens are a source
of mis-copied reports and many requests for repeats. Saving one
request for a repeat is worth dozens of hyphens.

Better to have one rule (no hyphens, USOS on) than try to tweak it for
every contest, IMO.

73, Bill W6WRT


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On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:13:56 -0700, Kok Chen <chen at mac.com> wrote:

>With a USOS transmitter, "599-14" is 14% faster to send than "599 14"  
>and it can be copied properly by both USOS and non-USOS receivers.