[RTTY] Dashes in Contest Reports - SOLUTION!

Bill, W6WRT dezrat1242 at yahoo.com
Wed Jan 27 04:32:28 PST 2010


ORIGINAL MESSAGE:

On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:49:17 -0600, "Robert Chudek - K0RC"
<k0rc at citlink.net> wrote:

>
>They ALL specify RTTY as a mode for the contest. But not a single one of 
>them specified a specific speed. So in the spirit of the old High Speed RTTY 
>Sprint that my brother and I experimented with in the late 90's, everyone 
>can simple set their speed to 75 or 100 baud for the next contest.

REPLY:

As I recall, after the High Speed Sprints of the 1990's, the general
consensus was there were too many errors caused by propagation
vagaries. 45 baud simply prints better in most cases.

However, it would be fun to do it again just to see. 

73, Bill W6WRT


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