[RTTY] Dashes in Contest Reports

[Bill, W6WRT]

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On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:25:27 -0700, Jim Reisert AD1C
<jjreisert at alum.mit.edu> wrote:

>
>MTBF, or mean time between/before failure, is a fixed quantity.  When
>you INCREASE the number of transmitted characters, the MTBF stays the
>same, but the likelihood of experiencing a failure INCREASES.

REPLY:

You could not be more wrong. 

The "MTBF", as you put it does indeed stay the same, but for EACH
character, not for all of them. In other words, sending more
characters, each with its own FIGS shift,  increases the chances that
one or more will get through correctly, a simple matter of statistics.
73, Bill W6WRT