[RTTY] Zone sent as letters?

[Paul Playford]

FWIW, I just finished racking up 1284 qso's in the CQWW RTTY contest and not 
once did I see TOO.

But I did see a few unshifted zones.

Never a problem when a hyphen was present.

de Paul, W8AEF

ZF2JI/ZF2TA  FO8DX/FO8PLA  8Q7AA  XZ0A  VU7RG  TX5D



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill, W6WRT" <dezrat1242 at yahoo.com>
To: "RTTY Reflector" <rtty at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2009 3:28 PM
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Zone sent as letters?


> ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
>
> On Sun, 27 Sep 2009 11:53:55 -0500, Peter Laws <plaws0 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Me too!  I'm poking at CQWW and immediately went and changed my EXCH 
>>macro!  :-)
>
> REPLY:
>
> No, no, no.... please don't do this. USOS exists for a reason. If you fill 
> your
> exchange with hyphens you will soon start seeing TOOAWT and other 
> mysterious
> exchanges. Let USOS do its job!
>
> 73, Bill W6WRT