[RTTY] USOS Question

[Bill, W6WRT]

ORIGINAL MESSAGE:

On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:36:46 -0500, Richard Ferch <ve3iay at storm.ca>
wrote:

>
>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.

REPLY:

Makes perfect sense. Thanks, Rich!

73, Bill W6WRT