[RTTY] Zone sent as letters?

[Paul Playford]

Sorry, I said zones when I should have said states.

During my first rtty contest I sent '599 03' as a macro for my report.  My 
second contact reported that I was sending '599 PE' so I changed the macro 
to '599-{EXCH}' and had no futher problems.

During the CQWW DX RTTY contest I received several '599 ZZ SS' with wierd - 
very wierd - states.

Two q's I made note of were N2QP and KW3W (hope you guys are reading this) 
and then during a lull in my rate I went to QRZ.com for the correct state.

But when I went back into my log to make the correction neither call is 
there.  So rather than break my run rythm with repeats or guesses I must 
have just acknowledged the qsos and then deleted them.  How many times did 
this happen?  Maybe a dozen times out of 1284 contacts?

Or maybe I remembered that I am not supposed to make changes to my log after 
the contest.

Never did I receive a wierd zone or state when the hypen was present.

Don't know or care what the difference is but if it ain't broke - don't fix 
it.

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: Monday, September 28, 2009 6:50 AM
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Zone sent as letters?


> ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
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> On Sun, 27 Sep 2009 18:01:25 -0700, "Paul Playford" <paul at w8aef.com> 
> wrote:
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>>
>>But I did see a few unshifted zones.
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>>Never a problem when a hyphen was present.
>