[RTTY] USOS Question

[Richard Ferch]

W6WRT wrote:

> that brings up a question: What would be the advantage to turning
> USOS off for RX but not for TX? Especially in the context of the dash
> debate, receiving dashes defeats USOS anyway, so under what
> circumstances would it be advantageous to turn it off for RX?

If you were working a station that was not using USOS on transmit and 
who was not using dashes, you might want to turn USOS off on receive. 
For example you receive 599 QZE XCE with a couple of noise bursts, you 
ask for a repeat, and maybe you'd rather be able to copy the repeat as 
599 -?3 12/ to eliminate one of the sources of confusion. With most 
modern software this probably isn't much of an issue, i.e. you can 
achieve the same objective by switching the case after the text has been 
received, but having a button on the front panel of the program gives 
you one more option.

73,
Rich VE3KI