[RTTY] USOS FIGS

[WS7I]

Then we must not be using this forumn to its full extent, as I still haven't seen in this thread the method to use in various versions of contesting logging programs the way to click and make all of these TOO-PQU-PQU into something that the newer folks can utilize.

In the old daze 1,000's of contests ago it was an art, now its just a shift click!  Good thing I am working on an intro to RTTY for the local ARES / RACES group.

And to think in the days of old we actually used multiple keyboards to send RTTY and to log or even sigh....pencils...





---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Bill, W6WRT" <dezrat1242 at yahoo.com>
Reply-To: dezrat1242 at yahoo.com
Date:  Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:40:59 -0700

>ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
>
>On Tue,  7 Jul 2009 09:24:47 -0400, Phil Sussman <psussman at pactor.com> wrote:
>
>>After all, if less errors is the goal, then (-) is the way
>>to go.
>
>REPLY:
>
>With more than a hundred RTTY contests in the log, my experience says otherwise.
>The issue is't the number of errors, it is the number of requests for repeats.
>That may sound like the same thing, but it isn't. If you take the exchange
>599-017-017. one error (a missing figs shift at the beginning) will make it
>print as TOO-PQU-PQU and most ops will ask for a repeat. By comparison, with 599
>011 011 and USOS, that same missing figs shift will print as TOO 011 011 and
>most ops will get it.
>
>I grant you that the more experienced ops will figure out the "PQU" but the
>newer ops won't, and there are always lots of newer ops in any contest. Just one
>request for a repeat will burn up more time than you save with hundreds of
>hyphens.
>
>But as AD1C observed, this has a religious aspect to it. :-)
>
>73, Bill W6WRT
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