[RTTY] Dashes in Contest Reports

Bill, W6WRT dezrat1242 at yahoo.com
Mon Jan 25 15:00:20 PST 2010


ORIGINAL MESSAGE:

On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:59:02 -0500, "Darl Deeds" <ddeeds at thewavz.com>
wrote:

>It doesn't matter which way is faster or better if it doesn't decode with dashes like Logger  32. Now before you bash the software does it really matter any more.
>
>Darl   NA8W 

REPLY:

You are missing the point. It doesn't matter whether the dashes decode
or not. What matters is that the dashes defeat the USOS function, and
that is bad. USOS is very useful in condx of QRM and/or QRN and should
not be defeated, lest many requests for repeats come your way.

73, Bill W6WRT


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