[RTTY] Dashes in Contest Reports

[David Levine]

It seemed that the final consensus (or where the thread stopped) was to send
it like :
xxxxxx 123 123-123

to make everyone happy or maybe equally unhappy, whatever the case may be. I
personally send:
xxxxxx 123 123 xxxxxx

K2DSL - David



On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Phil Sussman <psussman at pactor.com> wrote:

> When dealing with the dash, the authority to consult is CHEN.
>
> He can explain hows and whys of the dash. I remember reading
> an excellent explanation. Hopefully, Chen has an 'instant replay'
> of his in depth analysis.  :) Grin
>
>
> 73 de Phil - N8PS
>
> --------
>
> Quoting "B. Smith" <billn3xl at yahoo.com>:
>
> > There was comment in a thread awhile back about a dash being an
> easier/faster
> > decode than a space and recommended using it in place of a space to
> improve
> > the data transmission. My preference has always been to use a space,
> because
> > my signal reports seem to get through just fine and I prefer the way it
> > looks. I'm glad this pleases writelog users - but I must say N1MM picks
> out
> > the number amidst the dashes just fine - fyi.
> >
> > 73
> > Bill
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: Roger Cooke <g3ldi at g3ldi.co.uk>
> > Cc: RTTY Reflector <rtty at contesting.com>
> > Sent: Mon, January 25, 2010 8:36:14 AM
> > Subject: Re: [RTTY] Dashes in Contest Reports
> >
> > Hi.
> >
> >   I agree. The other thing that is quite annoying is for the
> > extremists among us who just return with  "152"  and that's it.
> > I don't like heavily populated macros, but that is just plain stupid.
> >
> >   There is another one,  the 10 line feeds after sending their
> > report!!  Chasing it up the screen is impossible, because you
> > cannot scroll up enough! Is that a deliberate contesting tactic? ;-)
> >
> > It was nice to see some JAs and ZLs on though, just wish I had
> > more time to operate.
> >
> > 73 de Roger, G3LDI  Chairman BARTG  O:-)
> >
> > Dick Kriss wrote:
> > > One very annoying observation in the BARTG SPRINT contest
> > > was a number of operators that would send their serial numbers
> > > separated by dashes.  They would send <call> 214-214 <call>
> > > that was easy to see on the screen but hard to mouse select
> > > and log the report.  When I would see a report with a dash, I
> > > found it easier to just type in the report.  There we some that
> > > did both <call> 214 214-214 <call> and that helped.
> > >
> > > Can someone explain why so many operators feel they need to
> > > separate the report with a dash rather than a space?
> > >
> > > 73 Dick AA5VU
> > >
> > >
> > >
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