[RTTY] Dashes in Contest Reports

Peter Laws plaws0 at gmail.com
Mon Jan 25 09:24:57 PST 2010


On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:41, Jim Reisert AD1C <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Peter Laws <plaws0 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 599 123-123  -- no USOS, so no extra shift.  Probably ought to have a
>> dash after the superfluous-yet-mandatory-in-most-'tests RST as well.
>
> Please please avoid this, however (worst of all worlds):
>
>  5NN-123-123
>
> There is NO call for 5NN ever in a RTTY contest!


"But N is shorter than 9!"  :-)





(for the record, this is a joke - both are 5-bits long)
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